BillyH

Disney's Aladdin in 1993 - one of the oldest movies in this thread so far!! I was thirteen when the first Harry Potter movie was released :/ I think the second was The Aristocats and third probably The Lion King. First live-action movie was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in '95 I think :P

A British band called Viola Beach have been killed - along with their manager - in a car crash in Sweden. Posthumous chart debut coming up?

I think that's what's made certain recent megahits especially unbearable for me - they're not just mildly popular songs, they're some of the BIGGEST SELLING SINGLES OF OF ALL TIME, and I genuinely try and like them but they keep leaving me cold. I remember everyone 10-15 years ago sneering at the low sales of the time and using the easy excuse of substandard music, but today I'll hear a song, think it mildly pleasant but underwhelming, and watch in utter bafflement as it zooms past a million sales within weeks and outsells almost every one of my all-time faves. Those sort of tracks are gonna make up half of the top ten I think, although it does make it extra special when a song I genuinely like does become a million seller - something extremely rare since 2013!

I would love if Disc 1 Track 1 was Love Yourself and Disc 1 Track 2 was Sorry! Should be done as a fun reference to the infamous Bieber domination :P

Already preparing myself for the inevitable horror of a ton of awesome late-2000s tracks completely blitzed in sales by a load of early-mid 2010s dross...

Brilliant track - incredibly underrated in a year of classics. First heard this one around 2004-05 and it was breathtaking, I didn't know what the hell I was listening to but it rocked - really clever how they managed to make a full track out of such a short sample. I think this one had that "What the hell are the lyrics?!" novelty factor that made Klubbhopping a big hit too. Something about being a man with a second face rocking a spacewheel?

I do feel a bit sorry for whoever's compiling the Now 93 track listing - do they even have enough big hits to fill one disc yet? And it's an early Easter this year so it'll be out by the end of March. Should be interesting to see what they include. Now 92's tracklist does look fairly ridiculous by having just the one Bieber song and no Adele at all, given their recent chart dominance.

The chart run for Macarena does seem surprisingly short given how much of a sensation it was! It reminds me more of 1997 than 1996 as it was still being played everywhere the following summer - we went on a family holiday to Ibiza in May 1997 and we heard it all over the place. I always assumed it must have been a million-selling #1 but I don't think it got anywhere near. Definitely the 'Gangnam Style' of its day, cheesy but hugely iconic 90s track.

The stuff about "streaming biases the chart to 15 year olds" was all being said a decade ago about downloads replacing CDs - maybe around the time Umbrella was #1 for about a year. It was probably being said circa 1992 when vinyl sales were dying out in favour of tapes and CDs too.

Normally because one person has the idea and is immediately joined by a ton of cash-in copycats, sometimes the copies winning over the original. Happened with the Pump Panel Reconstruction mix of New Order's 'Temptation' in 2000 (Operation Blade and Phatt Bass), the multiple 'Waiting for a Star to Fall' remixes in 2005 and all the Baywatch ones the following year.

That's a sample of Queen's 'I Was Born To Love You' right at the start of Fable, I think - was expecting Freddie's voice to appear any moment. Nice track but my fave Robert Miles track is one we'll be (surely) be hearing soon.

I still think of myself as a newbie until I realise I joined eight years ago! UK: Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me US: Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl Not a particularly golden age - Dizzee the start of his descent into poppy irrelevance, and I really didn't like that Katy Perry song at the time - she's done way better stuff since.

Sean Kingston for me too, although Rihanna was close earlier that year - her born February 1988, me September 1988. If Beautiful Girls hadn't hit #1 then When You Believe would have done it as Leon Jackson's a couple months younger than me. Shawn Mendes was born a few weeks before my tenth birthday, which is kinda terrifying. Although not as much as if Willow Smith had got to #1, she was born a month after I started secondary school...

If Bowie's #2 behind Stitches then it's MJ/Cascada all over again. Saying that he might even be below Love Yourself which would be even more depressing.

Already lots of Twitter jokes (at least I'm presuming) saying how sad it is that the guy who made House Every Weekend has died...

Imagine, just for a second, an all-Bowie top three...

That seems comically low for a y/e seller today, given the huge amount of million (and two million) sellers in the last couple of years. 2010 was an odd one - it really hasn't produced as many long-lasting hits as I thought it would at the time, they've all sort of remained in their own era and right now they're too old to be current but too recent to be retro/nostalgic. Maybe we'll have a massive Owl City/Iyaz revival in a few years time...

Sally Sweetland is 104 years old and she duetted with Eddie Fisher on 'I'm Walking Behind You', #1 in May 1953. Easily the oldest living person ever to be #1! EDIT: Snap :P

This should have been the moment happy hardcore took over the UK charts in the way it dominated much of Europe, but it never quite happened - easily the genre's biggest-seller in the UK. Scooter had their first top 20 hit around this time too. Looking at the Scottish singles charts it was much bigger there than further south of the UK, Scooter's singles regularly reaching top 10 positions and Technohead going top 3. The bald-headed guys in the video later got spun-off into their own group, the Party Animals - 'Have You Ever Been Mellow' was #1 in the Netherlands, #11 in Scotland but only #43 on the main UK chart. pJkgOK-7Sj4

LOL, memories of that 2007-8 "garage revival" that only ever lasted two songs :P Overshadowed by the Eurodance revival of summer 2008 when Basshunter was big and Scooter randomly became relevant again out of nowhere. I forgot about Daddy-O - I always think of Delinquent's 'My Destiny' as the third one, and when that underperformed at #19 it didn't last that long other than a random second hit for Platnum. It seems a bit too early for a 90s garage revival, I remember years ago predicting a "nu-trance" boom around 2019-2020. But then 'Touch' did pretty well a couple years back - actually rather enjoying WTBD, as I wrote ages ago it bridges the past and present really nicely!

...really? What a bizarre top five - Hozier, two UK reality TV winners and two songs that never charted in the UK! Why Matt Cardle out of everyone, did Irish radio really massively get behind it or something?

...any chance of 'Infinity' to rechart given further sad musical news today? Preferably the original rather than that 2008 bollocks.

'Set You Free' another #2 that just misses out here :(

Let Me Be Your Fantasy wasn't a remix, was it? The 1994 radio edit was just the '92 original with a bit in the middle snipped out.

I doubt Bieber even knows anything about this :P Pretty sure it's just this country the Christmas #1 has ever been an actual thing.