Originally Posted by delboy85:
“Don't agree with either of those!!”
“Don't agree with either of those!!”
Grrrr!!
Only kidding
Great #2 songs that were beaten by poor #1 songs?
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Originally Posted by Taz93:
“Amy Winehouse "Valerie" only got to #2!”
“Amy Winehouse "Valerie" only got to #2!”
too right the ZUTONS were better!!!
Originally Posted by Stube:
“Wasn't that behind Bleeding Love though?
Or was it About You Now?”
“Wasn't that behind Bleeding Love though?
Or was it About You Now?”
About You Now kept it off top spot, then Bleeding Love eclipsed the Sugababes.
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“About You Now kept it off top spot, then Bleeding Love eclipsed the Sugababes.”
“About You Now kept it off top spot, then Bleeding Love eclipsed the Sugababes.
”
What do you mean by eclipsed?
Another one of Ultravox / Dolce, Coldplay / Crazy Frog proportions is Pulp's 'Common People' being kept off the top by Robson & Jerome's 'Unchained Melody / White Cliffs Of Dover' double B-side.
Didn't Cowell have a hand in that? I think he did, the swine.
Didn't Cowell have a hand in that? I think he did, the swine.
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“About You Now kept it off top spot, then Bleeding Love eclipsed the Sugababes.”
“About You Now kept it off top spot, then Bleeding Love eclipsed the Sugababes.
”
Yeah i remember that week. It was quite an exciting week chartwise. The chart battle of Leona, TT, Mcfly and Britney meant the Sugababes fell from 1 - 4
That was quite hilarious since they stayed at #1 for 4 weeks
Originally Posted by Taz93:
“What do you mean by eclipsed?”
“What do you mean by eclipsed?”
I mean 'Bleeding Love' surpassed 'About You Now' in the charts, i.e Leona Lewis went to number one, The Sugababes fell from the top spot
Originally Posted by Stube:
“Yeah i remember that week. It was quite an exciting week chartwise. The chart battle of Leona, TT, Mcfly and Britney meant the Sugababes fell from 1 - 4
That was quite hilarious since they stayed at #1 for 4 weeks”
“Yeah i remember that week. It was quite an exciting week chartwise. The chart battle of Leona, TT, Mcfly and Britney meant the Sugababes fell from 1 - 4
That was quite hilarious since they stayed at #1 for 4 weeks
”
Never diss the babes in front of me.
Which Britney song was that?
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“I mean 'Bleeding Love' surpassed 'About You Now' in the charts, i.e Leona Lewis went to number one, The Sugababes fell from the top spot”
“I mean 'Bleeding Love' surpassed 'About You Now' in the charts, i.e Leona Lewis went to number one, The Sugababes fell from the top spot
”
Ok.
Originally Posted by Taz93:
“Never diss the babes in front of me.
Which Britney song was that?”
“Never diss the babes in front of me.
Which Britney song was that?”
Sorry. But in all honesty i don't think Get Sexy is as 'up there' as their classics (HITH, Shape, RD)
It was Gimme More. I think it debuted at #3 on downloads alone but when LL, TT, McFly, Sugas and Amy Winehouse(?)
came along, she fell to #6, on physicals!
Originally Posted by delboy85:
“Madonna's "Ray Of Light" which I think was kept off the top spot by that dreadful All Saints cover of "Under The Bridge".”
“Madonna's "Ray Of Light" which I think was kept off the top spot by that dreadful All Saints cover of "Under The Bridge".”
Yes disgraceful!
Aha's Take On Me - I can't remember what was number one at the time but then, isn't that the point? Look how iconic and, at the risk of sounding fulsome, immortalised the song has now become (eclipsing their actual number 1 that followed it).
Originally Posted by RussellIan:
“Aha's Take On Me - I can't remember what was number one at the time but then, isn't that the point? Look how iconic and, at the risk of sounding fulsome, immortalised the song has now become (eclipsing their actual number 1 that followed it).”
“Aha's Take On Me - I can't remember what was number one at the time but then, isn't that the point? Look how iconic and, at the risk of sounding fulsome, immortalised the song has now become (eclipsing their actual number 1 that followed it).”
Unfortunately for A-ha 'Take On Me's' peak co-incided with Jennifer Rush's 'The Power Of Love' monster ballad which kept them off the top for several weeks........
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“Unfortunately for A-ha 'Take On Me's' peak co-incided with Jennifer Rush's 'The Power Of Love' monster ballad which kept them off the top for several weeks........”
“Unfortunately for A-ha 'Take On Me's' peak co-incided with Jennifer Rush's 'The Power Of Love' monster ballad which kept them off the top for several weeks........”
Ah now that's a interesting point. It could be argued that Rush's song was not so culpable as, whilst it always had 'number 1' stamped all over it, if it hadn't been for the GBP apathetically causing it to take so bloody long to get there it wouldn't have coincided with such another deserving contender, had they done the inevitable a lot more expediently.
Didn't Spice Girls' Stop sit at #2 because of Westlife and their utter crap.
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)
Originally Posted by RussellIan:
“Ah now that's a interesting point. It could be argued that Rush's song was not so culpable as, whilst it always had 'number 1' stamped all over it, if it hadn't been for the GBP apathetically causing it to take so bloody long to get there it wouldn't have coincided with such another deserving contender, had they done the inevitable a lot more expediently.”
“Ah now that's a interesting point. It could be argued that Rush's song was not so culpable as, whilst it always had 'number 1' stamped all over it, if it hadn't been for the GBP apathetically causing it to take so bloody long to get there it wouldn't have coincided with such another deserving contender, had they done the inevitable a lot more expediently.”
Yeah, according to everyhit.com, Rush went in at 38, then up to 8, 2 then 1. The week it was number two Midge Ure topped the charts with 'If I Was', which I must admit I only thought made the top three.
As Huey Lewis also made the top ten at the same time with their totally different 'The Power Of Love', I wonder if that's the only occasion when two completely independent songs of the same title have done so?
Originally Posted by Stube:
“Didn't Spice Girls' Stop sit at #2 because of Westlife and their utter crap.
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)”
“Didn't Spice Girls' Stop sit at #2 because of Westlife and their utter crap.
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)
”
I was just going to mention Stop! It was actually kept off number 1 by some god awful remix of Run DMCs Its Like That - I absolutely hate that song, Stop should definitely have been number 1.
Originally Posted by Stube:
“Didn't Spice Girls' Stop sit at #2 because of Westlife and their utter crap.
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)”
“Didn't Spice Girls' Stop sit at #2 because of Westlife and their utter crap.
Stop wasn't amazing, but if it made number one, that would mean their first 10 singles made number one, they would have had ten consecutive number ones and would have had no singles to peak any lower (Until Headlines)
”
Apparently not - seems Jason Nevins vs Run DMC's 'It's Like That' and Celine Dion's 'My Heart Will Go On' prevented the Spice Girls from achieving this feat.
I daresay another Westlife turd was only around the corner though
Originally Posted by Capablanca:
“Way back in 1967 the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane' single was kept off the top spot by Englbert's 'Release Me'.”
“Way back in 1967 the Beatles' 'Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane' single was kept off the top spot by Englbert's 'Release Me'.”
That one has to be the ultimate. This was an era where singles were huge business, and it was almost unheard of for one to go straight in at No. 1, apart from The Beatles.
All of their singles, apart from their very first had made No. 1 up until this point, and then Engelbert keeps probably their best ever off the top spot.
Originally Posted by Deep Purple:
“That one has to be the ultimate. This was an era where singles were huge business, and it was almost unheard of for one to go straight in at No. 1, apart from The Beatles.
All of their singles, apart from their very first had made No. 1 up until this point, and then Engelbert keeps probably their best ever off the top spot.”
“That one has to be the ultimate. This was an era where singles were huge business, and it was almost unheard of for one to go straight in at No. 1, apart from The Beatles.
All of their singles, apart from their very first had made No. 1 up until this point, and then Engelbert keeps probably their best ever off the top spot.”
Which begs the question: how did it happen? As you intimate DP, this was hardly the days like Westlife only having to announce a new single and it go staright to number one on pre-sales......
The song must have been popular and well-known before it was released presumably? Was it featued on a tv show or something? Throws a mean dart does old Engle, incidentally.......
Although it wasn't held off by a bad number one, Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton should have been a #1. I'm sure it was held off by Dunblane's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' and then at christmas by Spice Girls' '2 Become 1' in 1996.
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“Yeah, according to everyhit.com, Rush went in at 38, then up to 8, 2 then 1. The week it was number two Midge Ure topped the charts with 'If I Was', which I must admit I only thought made the top three.
As Huey Lewis also made the top ten at the same time with their totally different 'The Power Of Love', I wonder if that's the only occasion when two completely independent songs of the same title have done so?”
“Yeah, according to everyhit.com, Rush went in at 38, then up to 8, 2 then 1. The week it was number two Midge Ure topped the charts with 'If I Was', which I must admit I only thought made the top three.
As Huey Lewis also made the top ten at the same time with their totally different 'The Power Of Love', I wonder if that's the only occasion when two completely independent songs of the same title have done so?”
The Power Of Love by Frankie Goes To Hollywood got in the top ten as well. It came out around November/December 84 (competing with Band Aid and Wham's Last Christmas) so that would have been 3 songs with the same title reaching the charts within a year of each other.
Girlfriend was denied of giving Avril her first UK number one single in 2007 all because of the huge dump which is "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers and Matt Lucas.
Originally Posted by Stube:
“Although it wasn't held off by a bad number one, Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton should have been a #1. I'm sure it was held off by Dunblane's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' and then at christmas by Spice Girls' '2 Become 1' in 1996.”
“Although it wasn't held off by a bad number one, Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton should have been a #1. I'm sure it was held off by Dunblane's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' and then at christmas by Spice Girls' '2 Become 1' in 1996.”
Boyzone's 'A Different Beat' (no, I can't remember that one either) kept TB off the top initially, then the two songs you mention
Just looking at the charts from that time, I note that Tori Amos then knocked the Spice Girls off with 'Professional Widow'. I didn't know TA had a number one hit to her name.....
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