BillyH

Think about how brilliant this is for music managers and promoters though - Justin Bieber gets the top 3 singles in a week, Drake's number 1 for fifteen weeks, Clean Bandit Christmas #1, Ed Sheeran ruling half the chart etc - it makes this 'era' of popular music not just feel special, but the biggest ever era in musical history. Adele, Sheeran, Bieber etc are getting headline after headline for breaking chart records that have stood for decades, and people read them thinking they must be genuinely truly massive in a way that every singer or group before them never quite managed. When of course, they're not - they're certainly big stars and up there with pop's current A-list, but they've just been lucky to be around at a time when music consumption's shifting completely from sales to streams. You can't compare Ed Sheeran to The Beatles, Justin Bieber to Elvis or Little Mix to the Spice Girls, even if their chart history and associated hype makes them look closer in equivalent star power than they are. Pick any year you like, and a couple of A-list pop acts fronm the time, and you can guarantee they'd have done exactly the same had streaming been around in their era. A Beatle-filled top 40 in 1964? A Slade top 3 in 1973? Fifteen weeks at #1 for Frankie Goes To Hollywood (twice!) in 1984? 'Barbie Girl' the shock Christmas #1 of 1997? Could all have happened under a different music climate.

I never really rated Lola's Theme, but I appreciated it for being one of the only real dance smashes at the time, and it remains genuinely evocative of that year's summer (even if I spent it doing bugger all except going on MSN Messenger every night). Video's quite nostalgic now with the old mobile phones/arcade games etc, and the 'silent love story' theme would be used to major effect by the videos of a DJ we'll be seeing in this thread in 2008! I enjoyed Satellite of Love at the time, forgot it actually went top 10. Wasn't too familiar with Lou Reed then but I became a fan of him afterwards, loved his work on 'Tranquilize' with The Killers a few years later too. OH GOD NO :lol: Not something I own!!

I love this reference!! Still sometimes forget that 21 isn't a music channel anymore...

Sorry, I got overly nostalgic and started rambling... +15 Dizzee Rascal - Holiday (bloody BRILLIANT. First heard this when Dizzee performed it live in Hyde Park that summer and it sounded immense, that final minute or so is still one of my favourite endings to any song ever made! Dizzee may have completely lost his underground credibility during this time but I still love this era of his...except looking at the posts already I might be alone in this, but oh well :P) +14 Chase & Status feat. Plan B - End Credits (how to do commercial drum & bass RIGHT instead of the drab pop nonsense we got in the 2010s, a killer of a track that astonished me when it went top 5 at the end of the year. Still sounds fab today) +13 Dizzee Rascal vs. Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (another I first heard performed live by Dizzee when he supported the Prodigy at Wembley Arena in April '09. Blew me away when I first heard it, got a bit overplayed later but it really doesn't deserve the low marks given to it so far, for me this is a defining late noughties anthem!) +12 Chuckie & LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl (utter club banger that lasted well into early 2010, one of the defining songs of my second year of uni) +11 Chicane - Poppiholla (great Sigur Ros update and fantastic to see Chicane of all DJs back in the charts again) +10 David Guetta feat. Akon - Sexy Chick (the sound of the 2010s arrives a year early! Took a while to 'get' but this eventually became a club fave for years, and still takes me back to the dancefloor) +09 David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over (while this one's been a bit unfairly forgotten in comparison, perhaps because it sounds much more a noughties track than a 2010s one - haven't heard it in ages but still enjoy it) +08 Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) (what an underrated track! God knows how this missed the top 10, should have been a much bigger smash) +07 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone (really loved this back in the day but not sure it's aged that well, plus I can't help thinking how Calvin turned from an underrated legend in the noughties into churning out crap dancepop songs in the 2010s) +06 deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (always found this one a little average but appreciated it, top notch production and a good chilled track) +05 Kid Cudi vs. Crookers - Day 'N' Nite (really didn't like this one when I first heard it, and still not one I revisit much, but it soundtracked so many drunken first year nights out at uni it holds at least some nostalgia for me) +04 Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend (this never did it for me, I hear what it's trying to do but it always fell a bit flat, not being as euphoric as it thinks it is) +03 The Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky (nah. Really wasn't big into the whole electro thing) +02 Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor (oh christ no, what the hell happened? Everytime We Touch is one of my favourite tracks of the decade, this was total bollocks yet somehow outpeaked it?! And it blocked Man In The Mirror from #1 which I'll never forgive it for) +01 Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin S - Show Me Love (Awful! Terrible update of a classic 90s song, can't believe it's so high in people's lists already but I've never been one to fit in anyway :P)

Candee Jay!! Had completely forgotten about her - the singles got a lot of airplay but even at the time I remember thinking they sounded about two years behind the times. The one I remember more was the follow-up...which I'm not sure if we'll see here or not? Sounds exactly like the kind of music that did much better in Scotland and the North of England than the South - and indeed a quick glance at the Scottish Singles Chart for that week shows If I Were You reached the top ten in that region.

'Flat Beat' definitely sold huge numbers on the back of this famous Levi's commercial, which aired all the time in early 1999. aLlKYF2L0d8

Fair choice - it stood out more as dance at the time, but probably because most British-made pop was leaning towards American R&B by then (and the odd bit of indie). Across Europe it would have indeed been pop.

Probably because of DJ Bobo's massive popularity in parts of Europe, although fairly unknown here - even his huge Europe-wide smash only went low top 40 here. Vampires Are Alive reached top 10 in a few countries even though it didn't make it out the semis.

Here's one I enjoyed back in the day which never got a UK release (but got some video airplay on The Box), Blue Lagoon's cover of Break My Stride: 5D7r_n5m7QE Randomly re-appeared for a bit in 2008 when AATW were set to finally release it here, even getting a promo CD made, but perhaps realising it was way too late quietly shelved the idea. This one could have done well with the right push, Despina Vandi's cover of Antique's classic 90s hit 'Opa Opa': dwg1Bsg1m3k Not as good as the original, but being in English it had a better chance at cracking the UK than the original Greek version. Saying that, foreign language didn't stop a '04 megahit we should be seeing very soon!

Wow at that 2014 list - neither Conchita or the Common Linnets anywhere near the top two! I suppose Austria were seen as too novelty and Netherlands too chilled until the semi-finals arrived. Odds didn't do too badly last year for the top seven picks (Malta instead of Bulgaria being the only odd one out) but Russia were by far the favourites right up until the contest, Australia and (eventual winners) Ukraine having a late charge after the semis - even then I think few of us actually predicted 1944 to win. Surprises can certainly still happen!

Mass Destruction is what got me into Faithless all those years ago - being unaware of Maxi's vocal style before it sounded hugely original compared to anything else around. Then a couple months later I heard 'Insomnia' and my love affair began :P Saw them live at V Festival 2010, which was as epic as you could imagine!

Yeah bad wording on my part, I just remember a lot of songs being upbeat dance numbers with tons of drumming in them - all feeling like attempts to ride the Ruslana wave from the previous year. I really wanted Chiara (Malta) to win that year so it was kinda annoying when Greece did, although I respect My Number One more now. Also the last Eurovision to have a huge voting section that lasted ages - I do sometimes miss the old "One point...two points...three points..." voting, but by then it really was dragging on too long. Especially with the "Thank you for a wonderful contest" stuff with every country.

I'll always have a soft spot for 2002 as it was the first full Eurovision I watched, after seeing brief bits of 1996 and 2000's contests - I didn't even know Estonia existed at the time, let alone Latvia! They didn't do too bad a job at Kiev 2005 though, did they? First Eurovision in widescreen which is pretty impressive, just a pity half the songs that year were Wild Dances clones.

IGNORE THE ABOVE f*** YEAH I JUST GOT ONE. Logged on at 2:15am - no queue AT ALL - and there was one ticket available for the live Grand Final!! Cost me £115 but Kiev - somehow - here I come!!

What I never understood about Now We Are Free - other than who the hell actually produced it (presuming "Gladiator" is a pseudonym for some underground DJ who didn't want to be credited in a commercial chart hit) - is why on earth it arrived when it did? The film was four years old at the time, hardly striking while the iron's hot. It would be like someone now randomly taking Anne Hathaway's version of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Mis and sticking a tropical house beat over the top. I wondered if it tied in with the UK terrestrial (non-Sky) premiere of the film, but that had been and gone in October 2003 on Channel 5. Channel 4 then showed it in September 2004, but this came out right in the middle of both showings. Fantastic track, but always seemed so odd hearing it on Now 58 - sounding completely out of its time with everything else, and could well have been a much bigger hit around 2000-01 when the film was more relevant.

Looks like I'm not as lucky as last year, loading the page gave me a position of 4,000+ in the queue :P It's gone below 2,000 now (45 minutes later!!) but every ticket has almost certainly gone. I'd be more annoyed had I not experienced it all in Stockholm last year though, so at least I've had the one Eurovision to remember!

Have to admit I don't know either of these.

I can't quite believe anyone genuinely misses held-back releases :P By the time a song hit the charts most people were already sick of it - I remember Justin Timberlake's 'Rock Your Body' being played and promoted for ages before it eventually charted.

What are the most well known songs in chart history that were never number 1 in the charts? Not just your personal faves, but ones that absolutely everyone knows but for one reason or another didn't quite hit the top? These are my bets for each decade since the 60s, any other choices? Could any of them ever reach #1 today (either in original form or covered), and if so how? 1960s: I'd say The Beatles - Yesterday, but that didn't actually get a single release until 1976 (#8)...so maybe Frank Sinatra - My Way? #5 in 1969, but had a famously huge chart run. Or Penny Lane or Strawberry Fields Forever (both Beatles), both of which only managed #2 as a double A-side in 1967 - one of their only singles that decade that weren't #1. 1970s: I suppose Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (#4 in 1973), but ignoring Christmas songs, there's a ton here, all of these were #2: * The Beatles - Let It Be (1970) * The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (1970) * Don McLean - American Pie (1972, #12 in 1991) * Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions (1977) Also Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (#9 in 1979), and every single David Bowie song that decade except Space Oddity. So that includes Life On Mars, Changes, Heroes etc. 1980s: The famous #2s - Ultravox - Vienna (1981), Wham - Last Christmas (1984) and The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York (1987) all stand out here. Every single Queen release except Under Pressure, so Another One Bites The Dust (#7 in 1980), Radio Gaga (#2 in 1984) etc. Can't forget Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (#2 in 1983), Michael Jackson - Thriller (#10 in 1983), A-Ha - Take On Me (#2 in 1985), Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer (#4 in 1986) and Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (#6 in 1989) either. 1990s: Think Robbie Williams - Angels (#4 in 1997) wins this decade, Oasis - Wonderwall (#2 in 1995) a close second. You could also include Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (#7 in 1991), and, as much as it pains me to say it, Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back (#56 in 1992, yes really), although your granny's probably got a better chance of knowing the first two. 2000s: While Youtube has done its best to put Darude - Sandstorm (#3 in 2000) up high, I think it's indie ruling this decade, White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (#7 in 2003), The Killers - Mr Brightside (#10 in 2004) and Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (#6 in 2006) all the immediate picks. But don't forget Outkast - Hey Ya (#3 in 2004)...think there's a fair few too who remember 50 Cent - In Da Club (#3 in 2003) and Kanye West - Gold Digger (#2 in 2005) far more than whatever charted higher those weeks. 2010s: Can we safely say this is Adele - Rolling In The Deep (#2 in 2011)? Unless I'm missing something obvious I don't think anything comes close, although I'm pretty hazy on the last couple of years. Contribute your picks!

Ticket sales have been delayed until mid-February...hoping to attend this but only if it's actually possible to get the tickets!

Early download era for me, 2005-2008. The latter two years especially once restrictions were removed but CD singles were still around. Started getting involved with the charts in 1999, posting on forums around 2002-03, but I wasn't too keen on the CD era even at the time - too many held back releases and #1s at a dizzying pace. Downloads calmed things down but still offered plenty of excitement, seeing a track enter on downloads alone and predicting how much it would climb when the physical hit the shops. From 2009 the CD began losing importance and the #1s started increasing a little too much again...and the less said about the last few years (completely the opposite problem!) the better.

It's definitely got a 1990s vibe to it, elements of the poppier side of rave at points (the synth pads, the vocal structure of the chorus). It's like a (way inferior) version of this '92 classic: TjIPzyVlK60 So odd to be talking about it here in February when I was listening to it back in April 2016 in Australia!

Yeah this fits with me - this was definitely around Autumn 2010 ('Americano' first charted in the summer but really hit big around early Autumn in the clubs and with my friends) and I think people mentioned that they'd picked the dance moves up on holiday around Greece or Spain or something. That Inbetweeners one isn't identical but shares a few similarities! My clubbing days fell off a cliff in about 2014 (when I started working full time) so I'd probably only be active for the first few years of a Dance Chart #1s 2010s thread. Back to 2004 and my fifteen year old pre-clubbing days... * Cha Cha Slide's various versions and artist names (DJ Casper/Mr C the Slide Man etc) confuse me a little - at one point it was hard to find the 'proper' version on Youtube, as in the one with the distinctive bassline that was the hit version in the UK, but the linked video is definitely correct. I remember the presence of both this (already several years old) and the re-issue of Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl' in the charts felt like the last remnants of the 1990s saying goodbye to us, most (if not all) dance #1s from here on firmly belonging in the noughties. I remember me and friends trying to decipher the more mysterious parts of the song on MSN Messenger - I still have no idea what a 'Charlie Brown' is, other than a cartoon character! * I had it in my head that 'I Like It' went top three - didn't think it only reached #9! Felt way bigger at the time, always loved the opening vocal build but the rest of the song always underwhelmed me a little. I loved the completely forgotten followup When The Dawn Breaks, which sounded glorious on cold winter nights in early 2005: (audio only as the video is bollocks beyond belief): E-lA9T1UYs8 * Don't remember 'Sunny' at all, a chart run like that in '04 probably meant it barely sold any copies. Nothing special, the kind of chilled-dance that bored me throughout the mid-noughties. * LOL at Ding Dong Song being a dance #1 :D It creeped me out a bit at the time as I wasn't sure if it was serious or not(!), but now it's just awesome - and genuinely pretty catchy at points! * Come With Me is a HUGE jam, I remember the first time I heard it as part of a dance mix on late-night radio - fell in love with it immediately!! Always felt the UK radio edit was insultingly short and cut out much of the song's charm, but a massive Euroanthem all the same!

Re: Party Rock Anthem, I can confirm that as a drunken 22 year old in 2011 I would indeed do the 'shuffling' on the dancefloor at the appropriate moments :P But wasn't there a dance routine to We No Speak Americano too, or was that just people making one up? I've got hazy memories of a series of hand claps and fist pumps to that song...

Could be one of those I've heard at some point but not known what/who it was? I only just heard both Castle On The Hill and Shape Of You earlier tonight! These are all the million "sellers" (inc streaming) from Jester's list I don't think I know, not including any B or double-A sides: Ken Dodd - Tears Paul Anka - Diana Engelbert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz Mr. Acker Bilk & The Leon Young String Chorale - Stranger on the Shore Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love Frank Ifield - I Remember You The Weeknd - The Hills (definitely must have heard this and think I know how it goes, but not 100%) Ed Sheeran - Photograph Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us The Lumineers - Ho Hey Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (unless it's the one that goes "You don't bring me flowers" but I think that's a different song?) George Harrison - My Sweet Lord And from the 'nearly there' section: Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Next Time Fetty Wap - Trap Queen Pussycat - Mississippi Major Lazer ft. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light It Up (another I must have heard but the name doesn't ring a bell) Eminem ft. Rihanna - The Monster Before anyone's like "omg wat", that's from a list of over 250 songs - I like to think knowing the remaining 230+ is still fairly above average!