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11. "Think of you" Whigfield (2 weeks) Made to #1: 11 Aug 1995 UK chart peak: #9 Following the massive success of "Saturday Night" and "Another Day" in 1994, a Whigfield album was finally released in the summer of 1995 with "Think Of You" as the long-awaited third single. The Italo-Dance project of which Danish singer Sannie Carlsen was the face (though allegedly not the actual voice) had in Portugal one of the countries where the material was more heavily promoted and therefore this song rotated a lot on radio and duly hit #1 in my chart. Maybe that's why Whigfield were still having hits in this country well into the early 2000's. (2000's release "Doo wop" still made to top 20 in my chart). Sannie Carlsen still releases the occasional single in her native Denmark. fE27URULxlY

10. "I'll make love to you" Boyz II Men (3 weeks) Made to #1: 21 Jul 1995 UK chart peak: #5 This was the #1 in my chart's transition from a top 20 to a top 50. The colossal r&b ballad was one year old but a big radio airplay surge in Portugal made me paid more attention to the track and give the quartet a chart topping hit. In America, of course this was one of the biggest hits of the decade. It also topped the charts in Australia and New Zealand. Boyz II Men would only have two more hits in my chart, one of them also a #1. fV8vB1BB2qc

9. "Back for good" Take That (2 weeks) Made to #1: 7 Jul 1995 UK chart peak: #1 Most notably Take That's only major US hit, "Back for good" was the bands most internationally successful hit (#1 in 31 countries) and also topped my chart with ease. Whereas Take That had topped some of my 1993/94 lists with "Pray", "Re-light my fire" and "Babe", it would take them another 12 years for them to have another chart-topper. N2ICtCO8TCw

8. "Think twice" Céline Dion (4 weeks) Made to #1: 9 Jun 1995 UK chart peak: #1 My first Number One that was also #1 in the UK singles chart, this was famously the song that turned the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest Winner into an international star and elevated Mlle. Dion to the realm of the decade's superdivas. The ice-sculpture video also remains vividly in the memory of many. A dance version of the track by Rochelle also made to #32 in my chart. Belgian singer Alana Dante also had a hit dance version in some European countries. vGwIaL0jOUg

7. "Strani amori" Laura Pausini (4 weeks) Made to #1: 12 May 1995 UK chart peak: DNC As it turned out it was Laura Pausini the first act to have two number Ones in my chart. This track, "Strani Amori" (Strange loves) was the lead track from her second album "Laura" which was promptly released in Portugal following the success of her debut album. The track remains a staple on Pausini's repertoir. s5LAMxM4OV0

6. "All I wanna do" Sheryl Crow (2 weeks) Made to #1: 28 Apr 1995 UK chart peak: #4 Whereas Miss Crow had been over a year in the spotlight I only noticed after her 1995 Grammys success. The former Michael Jackson back-up singer finally hit paydirt with her acclaimed album "Tuesday Night Music Club" from which this was the most celebrated track and her biggest UK hit. Although she wouldn't have more #1 hits, Sheryl Crow still chalked top 10 hits in my chart well into the mid 2000's. yAEpLMTjCC8

5. "Ode to my family" The Cranberries (3 weeks) Made to #1: 7 Apr 1995 UK chart peak: #26 While Cranberries staple hit "Zombie" was still in my chart (peak #6), it was this moving ballad about Dolores O'Riordan's yearning for her childhood days, written as an apology to her parents for choosing pursuing a career in the band over going to college that stroke a chord in me, sending it to #1. The video was shot at the same time as the one for "Zombie" and the kids that feature proeminently in the said video also appear in this one. Whereas Cranberries are all but forgotten in UK, they still have the occasional hit in Continental Europe, their last top 40 hit in my chart coming from 2011. Zz-DJr1Qs54

4. "Take your chance" Fun Factory (4 weeks) Made to #1: 10 Mar 1995 UK chart peak: DNC All but unknown in the UK, German Eurodance group Fun Factory was quite popular in Continental Europe around the time. Although they are far better known for hits like "Close To You" and reggae-pop gems like "I wanna B with U" and "Celebration" or their cover of "Do Wah Diddy", this was the one that took them to the top of my charts, one of my favourite moments of a dance music compilation that I owned at the time. Rapper Smooth T. featured on the Backstreet Boys debut UK hit "Get Down (You're The One For Me)" hMkf7wAkDzQ

3. "La solitudine" Laura Pausini (5 weeks) Made to #1: 27 Jan 1995 UK chart peak: DNC And we've arrive already to my year-end #1 of 1995. "La Solitudine" ("The Loneliness") was the track that earned Laura Pausini a victory in the newcomer section of the 1993 edition of the legendary San Remo Festival. By early 1995 she was already a budding star in her native Italy, with two albums plus one recording conglomerate of track from both records in Spanish language destined to pave the way, but my country (Portugal) was only introduced to her in late 1994 with the release her debut self-titled album where "La Solitudine" was lead track. Although the lyrics is about the end of a childhood friendship, the power ballad was perfect for radio request dedications and soundtracking romantic make-out sessions throughout my country and went down as one of the biggest hits of the year. The track also holds the record for the most consecutive weeks on chart a whopping 37, including five at the summit. FpOEN93LX-E

2. "Come in out of the rain" Wendy Moten (3 weeks) Made to #1: 6 Jan 1995 UK chart peak: #9 On Christmas 1994, I finally got a stereo with CD player and my first compact disc purchase was the NOW 27 compilation, where I was finally introduced to this ballad that had made the UK top 10 in early 1994. Doubtlessly the most notable moment of Wendy Moten's short period of fame, I instantly fell in love with this powerful ballad that I still listen fondly from time to time. Wendy Moten also became my chart's first one-hit wonder as no other songs of hers charted. Moten earns now her living as a back-up singer for acts like Faith Hill. e6Em3aMPxYE

1. "Carry me home" Gloworm (3 weeks) Entered at #1: 16 Dec 1994 UK chart peak: #9 My very first chart-topper turned out to be a very odd one. This soulful club track had been filling dancefloors in Europe since that summer and was still going strong come the Holiday period. I particularly loved the singer's vocals, especially his poignant and outbursting raspy chorus rendition: "Alone, alone, I did everything I could do!" Together with the honour of forever being my first chart's Number One, it was also its first Christmas Number One, leaving a famous Christmas classic by a famous pop diva at #2 (fulfilling its chart-topping fate many years later). As for Gloworm, they would only trouble my chart a months later with follow-up single "Young Hearts" hitting #18. ocesyTnYx14

I don't know if this is the right section for such a thread, please feel free to realocate. In this thread I plan to list and talk about the songs that reached the summit of my personal chart. I remember doing songs lists since I've been able to write but I only got into rather more seriously in the spring of 1993 when I was introduced to MTV via our family's satellite dish. I've done weekly charts for a about a year or so, but moving to a new home and leaving MTV behind and others mishaps in life led to an hiatus in autumn 1994. However I resumed the charts on December 16, 1994 (while at the tender age of 14) and I haven't stopped ever since, for what have been now 19 years, more than half my life now. I started with a top 20, then stretched to a top 50 in May 1995 only to reduced it to its current top 40 format since January 1998. At first I would do my charts on Friday, then shifted to Monday in 2000 and now I do it on Sunday since 2005. I keep all my charts written in what are now 11 notebooks. But enough preamble, let's get on with the list.

1st Demi Lovato - Heart Attack 2nd Olly Murs - Dear Darlin' 3rd Justin Timberlake - Mirrors 4th Disclosure - White Noise 5th Nicole Scherzinger - Boomerang 6th Taylor Swift - 22 7th Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie 8th Chase and Status - Lost & Not Found 9th Mariah Carey - #Beautiful 10th Kanye West - Black Skinhead

1st Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home 2nd Britney Spears - Work Bitch 3rd P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason 4th Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops 5th Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball 6th One Direction - Story of my Life 7th Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man 8th Bridgit Mendler - Ready or Not 9th Fuse ODG - Antenna 10th Union J - Carry You

Does anyone else think that it's weird a 9-year-old kid singing a song with "lover" in the title?

Alphaville - Forever Young Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield Outfield - Your Love Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You Tonight HIM - Join Me In Death

And Adele

1st Ellie Goulding - Burn 2nd Daft Punk - Get Lucky 3rd Bastille - Of The Night 4th Katy Perry - Roar 5th Tinie Tempah - Children of the Sun 6th OneRepublic - Counting Stars 7th Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) 8th Little Mix - How Ya Doin'? 9th Conor Maynard - R U Crazy 10th David Guetta - Play Hard

1st Tom Odell - Another Love 2nd One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) 3rd Lorde - Royals 4th Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 5th will.i.am - Scream & Shout 6th Jason Derulo - The Other Side 7th Selena Gomez - Come & Get It 8th Le Youth - C O O L 9th Bingo Players - Get Up (Rattle) 10th Tinie Tempah - Trampoline

1st Applause 2nd Youth 3rd Let Her Go 4th La La La 5th Sonnetanz 6th Strong 7th Live It Up 8th Talk Dirty 9th You & Me 10th Gentleman

don't care much for this group 1st Blurred Lines 2nd What About Us 3rd I Could Be The One 4th Bang Bang 5th We Can't Stop 6th Lost Generation 7th Hey Porsche 8th YNTSLY 9th Berzerk 10th Drinking From The Bottle

Despite the video, the original release date and the wintery feel, I don't think it's a Christmas song. I don't think a dance remix of a Christmas song could hit the top 10 in summertime, like TPOL did in 2000.

I'm so sad that everyone and their dog is keen on flushing Leona's career. She should be this generation's Whitney Houston.

All of the above, produced by Calvin Harris

1st Thrift Shop 2nd Pompeii 3rd Love Me Again 4th I Knew You Were Trouble 5th Somewhere Only We Know 6th Animals 7th Explosions 8th Best Song Ever 9th Waiting All Nights 10th Crazy Kids