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16Busted - Crashed The WeddingScore: 5/10 22/11/2003 Busted Crashed The Wedding Peak: 1 Chart run: {1}-4-8-12-23-31-28-31-43-46-54-64->12 After a successful eponymous debut album and 4 Top 3 hits Busted wasted no time in moving on to their 2nd album, from which this was the lead. It gave them a 2nd chart topper with more respectable sales than “You Said No”, though the #2 “Year 3000” remained their biggest seller. I think Busted were iconic more for their style in general than for their songs. They showed that all male groups didn’t have to be all about overblown ballads and that you could bring an energetic rock and roll inspired sound to a pop orientated audience. Still I enjoy this quite a bit more than “You Said Know” and it felt like they sold it as a lead single. I like the wedding theme intro and the lyrics. It’s nothing I would actively listen to but it’s fun.

I do have a soft spot for “Fairground” because it’s attached to childhood memories, but absolutely irks only the sample that makes it any good and generally Simply Red are tedious. YANA bleugh. “Boom Boom Boom” is fun trash I guess.

Also sometimes the mids have slightly different missing data from one week to the next, so I wouldn’t say Olivia has “Golden” nailed yet but she does look within striking distance.

“Golden” would have been #5 last week on ACR, so it won’t be dropping out for a very long time.

17Fatman Scoop Featuring The Crooklyn Clan - Be FaithfulScore: 4/10 01/11/2003 Fatman Scoop Featuring The Crooklyn Clan Be Faithful 1 Chart run: {1}-1-3-5-9-14-16-24-30-24-27-37-44-50-55-65->16 American hip hop artist Fatman Scoop was affectionately given the nickname because he loved ice cream as a child, and he died only last year. Other than this he had a rather gimmicky follow up Top 10 “It Takes Scoop” the following year, but he also featured later on “Lose Control” by Missy Elliott and “It’s Like That” by Mariah Carey. “Be Faithful” was in fact a 1999 single re-packaged in 2003. The main melody samples “Love Like This” by Faith Evans, but there are various other samples throughout including the “engine engine number 9” section which is a Black Sheep sample. Fatman’s shouting over the record is an acquired taste to say the least; I’m not sure if the “FATMAN SCOOP! CROOKLYN CLAN!” section inspired the likes of DJ Khaled or even Jason Derulo to tediously boom their names over every record. However this reminds me so much of rubbish uni discos that I can’t dislike it: there’s definitely a so bad it’s good element and I get more guilty pleasure from it than from anything else revealed so far.

30 Tyler, the Creator (feat. Kali Uchis) - See You Again 29 Bicep - Glue 28 alt-J - 3WW 27 Steps - Scared of the Dark 26 LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby 25 Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love 24 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses 23 Rita Ora - Anywhere 22 Lorde - Green Light 21 Disciples - On My Mind 20 ZAYN (feat. Sia) - Dusk Till Dawn 19 Dua Lipa - Be The One 18 Drake - Passionfruit 17 Jamiroquai - Automaton 16 MGMT - Little Dark Age 15 Calvin Harris (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) - Slide 14 Arcade Fire - Everything Now 13 Adele – Water Under The Bridge 12 Sam Fender - Play God 11 Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony 10 CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola 9 Little Mix - Touch 8 French Montana (feat. Swae Lee) - Unforgettable 7 Katy Perry (feat. Skip Marley) - Chained To The Rhythm 6 Kendrick Lamar - Humble. 5 alt-J - Adeline 4 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still 3 Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life (feat. The Weeknd) 2 Big Shaq - Man's Not Hot 1 Post Malone (feat. 21 Savage) - Rockstar

All pretty rubbish so far - nothing really to add!

18Gareth Gates And The Kumars - Spirit In The SkyScore: 4/10 22/03/2003 Gareth Gates And The Kumars Spirit In The Sky Peak: 1 Chart run: {1}-1-2-2-5-8-13-18-29-42-45-53-59-66-62->15 Gareth’s 1st #1, “Unchained Melody”, is the only song to have been #1 in 4 different versions, and this is one of only a few songs that have been #1 in 3 different versions. Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 version was the original, and Doctor And The Medics covered it in 1986, so it’s neat that this cover was another 17 years on. It was the lead single from Gareth’s 2nd album “Go Your Own Way”, and the official Comic Relief single for 2003. “The Kumars At No. 42” was a very popular sitcom about a British Indian family which ran from 2001 to 2006, and The Kumars teamed up with Gareth to provide the single’s comedy elements. The result was a huge #1, and its 1st week sale of 273,508 was the highest single week sale of the year. For much of the year it looked like it would be the year end #1, but was ultimately pushed down to 2nd. I’m not a fan of Gareth’s voice in general which I find a bit thin, but it suits this kind of more upbeat song better. All in all this is a fairly decent cover and the comedy elements aren’t bad. It doesn’t bear very many listens before becoming tedious, but as ‘00s charity records go there were certainly very much worse.

I think yes it would still go to ACR. But I’m pretty sure “Your Idol” is still well ahead across all platforms. Great for RAYE! Here for her getting a second big solo hit.

Going for Amy - “This Is The Life” is brilliant but can take or leave this one.

Leaving it all behind is Anastacia. She was unlucky to have a few relatively long running hits that just missed the Top 10, and this spent 7 weeks in the Top 40 after reaching #11 in March 2002. Her biggest chart success would come a couple of years later. 4th: Anastacia - One Day In Your Life 11/31 votes (35%) 5th: Wombats - Moving To New York 13/35 votes (37%) 6th: Janet Jackson - Doesn’t Really Matter 12/31 votes (39%) 7th: The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York 8th: A1 - No More 15/29 votes (52%) 9th: Akon - Belly Dancer (Bananza) 10/26 votes (38%) 10th: Ronan Keating - The Long Goodbye 18/28 votes (64%)

I’m moving to Snow Patrol now - nice but forgettable.

Oops! There goes the bird. This was the only big hit for American RnB star Charlene Keys who had previously been a backing singer for Missy Elliott. It reached #5 in May 2002, but the follow up singles chatted outside the Top 20.

19Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your SideScore: 3/10 02/08/2003 Daniel Bedingfield Never Gonna Leave Your Side 1 Chart run: {1}-4-8-13-18-24-28-40-48-52-52->11 I did really enjoy the run of singles from his debut album, and Ioved that he had 6 releases and reached #1 with all the odd ones. But this has to be my least favourite of the 6. Even the #28 flop “Friday” which followed this was more interesting. Slushy ballads are not my thing in general, but as I’ve said elsewhere “If You’re Not The One” is up with the very best of them, and is a unique song that only he would have released. This isn’t too bad but I feel like it falls into many of the traps that managed to avoid. The over-sentimentality, the clichéd lyrics, the overuse of falsetto and the lack of anything to really distinguish it from hundreds of other Heart FM worthy songs. Still, I think he’s an interesting performer and it’s a shame his later material was largely ignored.

Biggie definitely