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David Gray - Babylon Snow Patrol - Run Both had been around for a few years but didn't break through until these tracks were released.

There was one other new entry that week - Since I Told You It's Over by Stereophonics at #16. #2 was Madonna's first chart collaboration with another artist, although she has had a couple since (most notably 4 Minutes). It was her 3rd #2 of the year, after American Life and Hollywood. And Hey Ya! really did have a crazy chart run for the era: 6-8-10-13-22-16-13-14-9-9-4-4-3-6-6-6-9-19-32-45-65.

#3 at the time was listed as a new entry - the #57 position from the previous week was based on import sales, with the import release having a different catalogue number to the domestic release and thus considered a different entry. #10 was the basis for Freemasons' 2005 hit Love On My Mind which reached #11. #11 was a mash-up of Adeva's In And Out Of My Life with the backing of Fatboy Slim's Right Here Right Now. #30 was the son of Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive. The song, which did get a fair bit of airplay, was later a #25 hit for Norwegian singer Kurt Nilsen in 2004. #38 was released to tie in with that year's Rugby World Cup. The other such song was Shirley Bassey & Bryn Terfel's version of World In Union which had charted at #35 the previous week. #40 was the second track called Bailamos to chart in as many months (unsurprisingly no others have charted either before or since), following Enrique Iglesias' #4 hit.

The song that knocked Call On Me off #1 second time round was actually Ja Rule's Wonderful (which has to be a contender for the most WTF #1 hit of all time) - Just Lose It was #1 after that. Basket Case had reached #7 in 1995.

Bay City Rollers had 10 top 10 hits in the UK, yet their only US #1 (Saturday Night) never charted in the UK (Money Honey was their only other top 10 over there). Manhattan Transfer only had 1 top 10 hit in the UK (Chanson D'Amour, which was a #1), and only 1 top 10 hit in the US (The Boy From New York City) - neither track charted in the other country. Ellie Goulding reached #2 in the US with Lights (her only top 40 hit in the US prior to Burn), which only reached #49 in the UK.

Nena's original German-language song 99 Luftballons was massive in Europe, and even reached #2 in the USA, but didn't make it in the UK. Instead, an English translation (99 Red Balloons) made it to #1 in the UK, Ireland, and Canada (another country where the German version was not a hit). Modern Talking had a few hits that were massive in Europe e.g. You're My Heart, You're My Soul, but their only big UK hit was Brother Louie. Going back a bit further, Crimson & Clover by Tommy James & The Shondells was a top 3 hit in almost every country where it charted (including the USA where it reached #1) but did not chart in the UK. Thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles.

Unusually the 2 import versions of 9pm (Till I Come) were in the top 75 the same week two weeks before - one at #55, one at #63. This seemed to violate a rule banning any title from occupying 2 simultaneous chart positions (which was introduced after Blur and Oasis both managed it in 1995).

Puretone - Addicted To Bass vs Aaliyah - More Than A Woman John Legend - All Of Me vs Aloe Blacc - The Man Rihanna - Unfaithful vs McFly - Don't Stop Me Now/Please Please Ellie Goulding - Your Song vs X Factor Finalists 2010 - Heroes

Quite a few tracks in that top 10 seemed to buck the enter-high-and-drop-quickly trend of 1997: Rembrandts climbed 11-5 (it was a re-entry of a 1995 hit - was this purely down to Friends taking off?) Cardigans went 4-4-2-5-6-8- (and that was a re-issue) Shola Ama went 7-7-6-7-4-7-7- Katrina & The Waves went 50-13-3- (this largely forgotten song peaking 5 places higher than their classic Walking On Sunshine from 12 years earlier) R Kelly went 2-5-1- Only 2 new entries in the top 10 (plus 1 climbing in) was a bit low for 1997 standards, although there were a further 12 new entries in the rest of the top 40. These included top 40 debuts for Basement Jaxx (#19) and Stereophonics (#33).

Madison Avenue's Andy Van Dorselaer was one of three 'Vans' in the top 10 that week, along with Armand Van Helden and Paul Van Dyk. Rather randomly the OCC lists Toca's Miracle as being credited to Coco vs Fragma, a credit I have never seen before (the track being a mash-up of Coco's I Need A Miracle and Fragma's Toca Me). Two of the new entries in the top 40 would later be re-issued but fail to match their original peaks - Faith Hill would reach #36 in 2001 and Heather Small would reach #33 in 2005.

Roll Deep - Take Control (#29, off the back of 2 #1 hits) Flo Rida - Turn Around (5 4 3 2 1) (#41) Tony Christie - Avenues And Alleyways (#26)

The Beautiful South - My Book (#43) Shakira - Illegal (#34) Stiltskin - Footsteps (#34) White Town - Undressed (#57) Roger Sanchez - You Can't Change Me (#25)

A very memorable chart from 1999, with an all-new top 3 and new entries at #5 and #7 that are much better remembered now than any of the top 3. #1 was one of the few almost-instrumental tracks to have reached #1 in the last 40 years - the only one since then is Martin Garrix - Animals in 2013. #3 was the subject of the first get-an-old-track-back-into-the-charts campaign in January 2007 (when downloads were first allowed to chart regardless of physical release) - it reached #17. #7 had an unusual chart run for 1999 - it went 7-13-8-6-9-3-. #10 was reaching the top 20 for the third time in 5 years, having reached #20 in 1994 then #14 in 1995.

The following week was notable in that DJ Casper would climb to #1, becoming the first #1 since Bob The Builder in 2000 (although DJ Otzi was listed as a climber rather than a new entry due to a catalogue number 'glitch' in 2001) not to enter at #1 (excluding songs that returned to #1). #17 was bizarre, as It's My Life had originally charted just 3 months earlier at #20 but was swiftly re-issued for some reason. Timbaland, Missy Elliott & Magoo had previously collaborated on Here We Come, which charted at #43 exactly 5 years to the day before this chart.

Unusually for a 2004 (i.e. pre downloads) chart, 3 tracks in the top 10 were climbing to new peaks (Somebody To Love, Hey Ya, So Confused). Obviously this was helped by being an unusually quiet week (no new entries in the top 9) - in fact the Scissor Sisters' sales at #10 were the lowest for that position in several years (and note that this chart came only 5 weeks after we had had two tracks selling over 220k).

In that case Numb/Encore (credited to Jay-Z/Linkin Park) should have charted after Chester Bennington's death in addition to the 3 Linkin Park tracks that did chart.

I think this week may have been the first time the top 5 were all new entries (excluding the first ever chart of course). Curiously, there were only 4 other new entries in the top 40, and 3 of those were re-issues/re-mixes.

Interesting to see the sales for #1 and #2 - it definitely seemed a lot closer between them at the time. 7 new entries in the top 10 equalled the record which still stands (even the Ed Sheeran week only managed 7 as two of his tracks in the top 10 were released prior to the album). Geeky fact about that chart: #34 was a new entry for Junior Jack - E Samba, which charted exactly 6 years to the day after the previous 'Samba' track to chart (Bellini's Samba De Janeiro). And there was a chart debut at #54 that week for Snow Patrol with Spitting Games (which reached #23 the following year on re-issue).

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Thanks to everybody for the thread! A 2010s version would be good, although I suspect there will be a lot more tricky decisions on which tracks are eligible.

Akon did not feature on Just Dance (although he did co-write the track according to Wikipedia) - it was just Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis who were credited on it.

Thanks for hosting, Bré!

He did in 1999.

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It's also the same week as the anti-Trump campaign.