paulgilb

18/23. Accidentally clicked the wrong answer for , and had no idea that were covers.

Only 8 weeks in the top 40, plus a further 2 in the top 75: 3-3-8-9-11-20-29-39-58-73

Was never aware this sampled George Clooney. Spookily, it was in the charts the week that George Clooney's chart-topping aunt Rosemary died. Ramon Zenker and Gottfried Engels were also behind Bellini, who reached the top 10 in 1997.

A couple of the recent ones seem to have the wrong year - It Girl and Coming Home were both 2011 (and It Girl was #4, not #3). Hopefully their positions in this list are correct!

Shakedown are one of the few acts from Switzerland to have made the top 10. Another such act is Yello (who reached #7 in 1988 with The Race), whose frontman Dieter Meier featured (albeit uncredited) on X-Press 2's follow-up to Lazy (I Want You Back, which reached #50).

X-Press 2 were the second act with a name starting with X to make the top 10 in as many weeks, following X-Ecutioners. The only previous such acts to make the top 10 were XTC and Xpansions, and only XTM and Xzibit have done it since.

According to Wikipedia, Flip & Fill were members of Bus Stop (who had 3 top 40 hits in 1998-99), along with Daz Sampson.

Especially as (I believe) its gap to Aaliyah was less than what it had sold at #68 the previous week (this was due to 'leaked' sales, just like Steps a year earlier).

True, but I was referring to the fact that 9/11 occurred in September 2001, and if Castles In The Sky had been released after 9/11, then it might not have done as well due to the title being inappropriate (I believe this did affect its airplay in the US).

Incorrect - it was George Harrison who knocked Aaliyah off #1.

Castles In The Sky was one of the few big hits of 2001 not to peak in its first week (What Would You Do by City High being the other main one). It is also one of the few songs that would quite likely not have been such a big hit if it had been released 2 months later than it actually was... Interestingly, the CD cover on Wikipedia lists it as 'featuring Marsha', who I have never seen credited anywhere before. A quick search reveals that the name Ian Van Dahl came from a Flemish song about a kid named Jan van Daal.

Michelle Escoffery was the second Escoffery to chart in as many weeks, following Shaun who had reached #52 with Space Rider. A Google search suggests they are cousins. According to Wikipedia, Michelle Escoffery was a member of Truce, who reached #20 in 1998.

The difference between Duffy and Adele seems to be that Adele wanted her 2nd album to be successful, whereas Duffy was quite happy to take the money she'd made from her first album and run back into obscurity.

Mercy was her second single. Rockferry was the first (although not promoted nearly as much as Mercy).

I'm not sure the Wet Wet Wet single was actually deleted, given that it did hang around for quite some time after leaving #1: 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-8-16-21-35-39-46-47-52-58-59-54-60-52-37-37-50-63-66 Whereas Bryan Adams dropped out very quickly once it left the top 5: 8-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-4-4-6-12-36-63-xx-xx-73 Even if Wet Wet Wet was deleted, I doubt it would have made any difference, as Whigfield's first week sale was massive.

Umbrella also managed this (it fell to #3).

The guy behind Sandstorm (the artist) was Mark Picchiotti, who also charted under the name Basstoy. There was also a hit called Sunstorm in 2000 (a #38 hit for Hurley & Todd), which was a re-working of Elton John's Song For Guy.

Although billed as a re-mix, the second Ain't It Funny was actually a completely different song to the first - the only thing they had in common was the words 'Ain't It Funny'.

Surprised Sugababes - Freak Like Me hasn't been mentioned - it is a cover of a mash-up of Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric and Adina Howard's Freak Like Me. Also Chicane ft Natasha Bedingfield - Bruised Water mixes I Bruise Easily and Saltwater.

Edith Piaf - Milord (French) Air - Sexy Boy (French apart from the title, although both words are valid French words). Petula Clark - Casanova/Chariot (German and French respectively)

Several of the songs on the first page have significant English parts (e.g. Begin The Beguine, Rock Me Amadeus, Chanson D'Amour, Danza Kuduro). As for some of the missing languages: Gasolina is Spanish (title = Petrol). Sweet Lullaby is in Baegu. No Tengo Dinero is mainly in English, with a few Spanish lyrics (title = I Have No Money). Yeke Yeke is in Mandinka. Dragostea Din Tei is in Romanian (title = Love From The Lindens).

Singing Nun - Dominique is in French.

Enigma - Sadness (Part 1) has some sung Latin parts and a few spoken French words. Wes - Alane is sung in Duala.

Simple solution: don't include streams from any 'Current UK Top 20' playlists (or similar ones).

Work It Out was released in 2002, and was definitely a Beyoncé single.