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Great #2 songs that were beaten by poor #1 songs?
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'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' by The Script was one of the best songs of 2008. It was an amazing song.....yet it was beaten by the cheap 'I Kissed A Girl' song from Katy Perry. I was shocked that TMWCBM was beaten to the #1 spot by it. Very dissapointed and gutted for The Script.
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"Nature's Law" by Embrace got beat by "So Sick Of Love Songs" by Ne-Yo
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Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson was beaten by Evacuate The Dancefloor by Cascada a few weeks back.
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Way back in May 1970 an absolute classic track by the Moody Blues entitled 'Question' was kept at No. 2 bay by the utterly appalling 'Back home' 'sung' by the England World Cup squad . A travesty !
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The most famous one is Vienna by Ultravox, beaten by Shaddap Your Face by Joe Dolce in 1981.
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Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson was beaten by Evacuate The Dancefloor by Cascada a few weeks back.
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I Kissed A Girl might of been cheap but it was a whole lotta fun! I liked The Man Who Can't Be Moved just as much so i wasn't fussed either way that one went.
But yeah MJ losing out to Cascada was ridiculous! If i remember rightly i think Coldplay's Speed of Sound got beat by Crazy Frog in 2005. But I suppose the fact that any song that lost out to that is bad enough. |
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Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson was beaten by Evacuate The Dancefloor by Cascada a few weeks back.
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Way back in 1967 the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane' single was kept off the top spot by Englbert's 'Release Me'.
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I wouldn't say it was madness. Jackson got at least 20 of his songs in the top 100 (and a few in the top 20), plus he is STILL dominating the album charts. It would have been nice for him to get a #1 single but he kinda was #1 anyway at that point with the amount of singles and albums in the charts.
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yeah i suppose a lot more people were (and still are) buying Jackson's albums rather than singles. it's just that when you think of it as the fact that a song like Evacuate The Dancefloor beat a song like Man In The Mirror it seems crazy to me!
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Back in 1973 Little Jimmy Osmond had the audacity to keep David Bowie's 'Jean Genie' and also T-Rex's 'solid gold easy action' away from the top spot. Both these classics peaked at No. 2
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I know I'm going to get laughed off this thread but I remember back in 1991 when Bryan Adams was at number one for 16 weeks with Everything I Do I Do It For You it kept I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred off the top spot. In fact I'm Too Sexy spent 6 weeks at number 2 at the time. I absolutley loved Right Said Fred and that song back then.
Now with hindsight I realise what a pile of sh*t I'm Too Sexy is but I was 13 at the time and didn't know any better
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Why? It's such a better song! Cascada are so much better!
I can't stand it, personally. But, if you like it that's cool too. |
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The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
Probably the best Christmas song ever, and always beaten to to the top spot on three occasions I think. The first one being the Pet Shop Boys *cringe* |
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Confide In Me think was either Whigfield or Wet Wet Wet for the millionth week.
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The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York
Probably the best Christmas song ever, and always beaten to to the top spot on three occasions I think. The first one being the Pet Shop Boys *cringe* |
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I don't know about great #2s being held off by crap #1s, what about a Janet's 'Together Again' which was beaten by Barbie Girl (
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For me it is bloody Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" keeping "All Right Now" by Free off the number one spot in the summer of 1970!
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Madonna's "Ray Of Light" which I think was kept off the top spot by that dreadful All Saints cover of "Under The Bridge".
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The most famous one is Vienna by Ultravox, beaten by Shaddap Your Face by Joe Dolce in 1981.
![]() Mind you I suppose that Vienna is talked about MORE because of it, so it had its up side. |
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Rihanna's Unfaithful which was kept of by Shakira's Hip's Don't Lie
Unfaithful was her best song at the time while HDL just grated on me (thank God Bey overtook her) ![]() Also Leona's Better In Time/Footprints in the Sand had to settle for #2 cos of Duffy's Mercy
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Amy Winehouse "Valerie" only got to #2!
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Amy Winehouse "Valerie" only got to #2!
Or was it About You Now? |
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Rihanna's Unfaithful which was kept of by Shakira's Hip's Don't Lie
Unfaithful was her best song at the time while HDL just grated on me (thank God Bey overtook her) ![]() Also Leona's Better In Time/Footprints in the Sand had to settle for #2 cos of Duffy's Mercy ![]() |
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Very dissapointed and gutted for The Script.

Nothing short or madness!
) and Teletubbies (