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One that caused a bit of controversy at the time was The Jam's A Town Called Malice/Precious, which was available in 2 different formats, allowing it to beat Golden Brown by The Stranglers to #1 despite more people buying the latter song. Obviously releasing songs in multiple formats subsequently became commonplace.

The Millennium Prayer was very controversial at the time.

Bob The Builder managed it in 2000.

I'm not sure it does - the only similarity between the two tracks is the lyrics 'I'll take you there'.

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That 2001 chart may well be the only one where the song at #3 name-checks the artists at #1, #7 and #10 in the space of 3 lines.

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The Troggs' only #1 was With A Girl Like You, but Wild Thing (#2) and Love Is All Around (#5) are both better known. Katrina & The Waves are best known for Walking On Sunshine (#8), but reached #3 over a decade later with Love Shine A Light. Redbone's only UK hit was The Witch Queen Of New Orleans (#2 in 1971), but they may be better known now for Come And Get Your Love (upon which Cyndi Lauper's re-recording of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was partly based), which was their biggest US hit.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia reached #2, but songs such as Born In The USA and Hungry Heart are definitely better known. Weezer reached #9 in 2005 with Beverly Hills, but the #12-peaking Buddy Holly is better remembered. Embrace had 2 top 3 hits in 2006 (Nature's Law only narrowly missing out on #1), but I would certainly say Gravity (which peaked at #7) is better remembered. Morrissey reached #3 in 2004 with Irish Blood English Heart and in 2006 with You Have Killed Me, but tracks such as Suedehead and Everyday Is Like Sunday are more well known. Primal Scream are best remembered for Loaded and Movin' On Up in the 1990s, but their only top 10 hit was 2006's Country Girl.

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Thanks for hosting, Jim! I did get the 'reached peak position twice' part of the theme after submitting (upon checking some of the chart runs of the ones I did get), but would probably never have got it genuinely, especially given that I went for the wrong artist on a couple of them. Incidentally, Polyhex gives the run of Just The One as 12-14-13-13-22-34-49-68, however the OCC gives it as #12 on week 3 (thus fitting in with the theme of the quiz). There seem to be a few other differences between the two sources for this chart (week ending 6/1/96) e.g. Lump by Presidents Of The United States Of America enters at #17 according to Polyhex but #18 according to the OCC. Maybe there's been a correction to this chart (just like week ending 10/7/99)?

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Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys spent 3 weeks in a row at #3, coming very close to #2 in the first two of those weeks. Plan B - She Said was unlucky not to get to at least #2 (it spent 4 weeks in total at #3, and the first week was very close sales-wise).