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Number 1s which shouldn't have been number 1
hadjilouca05
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I can name a few:
Cher Lloyd - "Swagger Jagger"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams - "Blurred Lines"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
Cher Lloyd - "Swagger Jagger"
Flo Rida - "Good Feeling"
Pharrell Williams - "Happy"
Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams - "Blurred Lines"
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Call Me Maybe"
Psy - "Gangnam Style"
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For what reason should they not have been number one?
They are probably overplayed because they are so successful commercially. Just a thought.
If a song sold the most that week, then it deserved to be number 1.
In other words, just because you don't like them they didn't deserve to sell millions of copies between them? ^_^
Besides, Call Me Maybe in particular was a solid pop song and fully deserved to be hit.
Joe Dolce Shaddap your Face (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
Brian and Michael: 'Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats And Dogs' Top of the Pops (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVR-PyRC4io
Absolute shite - both of them! Joe Dolce kept Ultravox's Vienna off the number one slot! Unforgivable!
Excellent reply and sums it up.
3 Of A Kind - Babycake (it was just the worst #1 at a period of horrendous chart toppers)
There are more obvious offenders but these two really didn't deserve to be UK chart toppers.
'Vienna' was a load of ridiculous, pompous old tosh and I for one am delighted that Shaddup Your Face stopped it getting to No 1.
On reflection Vienna was rather over the top in a lot of respects to be honest but certainly more interesting that Shaddup Your Face surely?
I still have a dislike of Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" just because it kept Free's All Right Now from the number one slot.
I'm with you on that one.
Same with Lily Allen's version of "Somewhere Only We Know" when Keane's version peaked at #3
Aww I like Lily's version. The production is rather beautiful and think she performed it well. Obviously not quite as good as the original though.
As for American Pie... I think even Madonna herself is ashamed of that. She never performs it live and it has since been omitted from both of her Greatest Hits!
I was in junior school when that Matchstalk Men song was out, and we had to sing the song at school. Awful stuff. A few years later our music teacher made us all sing Super Trouper (ABBA song. I think he thought of himself as another Benny), while he played the piano. Cringeworthy!
Nothing beats a woman in her underwear.
That was mostly the reason the song went to #1
They didn't ruin the song, they merely helped demonstrate how they weren't as good as some of the acts that previously did versions of the song, or which there have been many.
Exactly. The chart is based on commercial success, not artistic merit.
I happen to think it's a very good song and that it really didn't require that video in the first place. It is a beautifully shot video though.
I'm not entirely sure how this one got to #1, because I don't think many people liked it. I felt at the time like people were just buying it for the sake of buying it.