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Best #2s in the UK Singles Chart - that should have been #1?
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Neil_N
15-08-2014
My votes go to:

"Vienna" by Ultravox

"Love The Way You Lie" by Rihanna and Eminem which was ironically the best selling song of 2010!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U

"Crazy For You" by Madonna (runner-up twice!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn5OJGucveg

A bit early yet but "All I Want For Christmas" by Mariah Carey.
Aura101
15-08-2014
Spice Girls - Stop
Fanntastik
15-08-2014
I Believe in You, Confide in Me, Love at First Sight, and Better the Devil You Know by Kylie. Before I got into charts I thought they all hit #1 lol so they should have been #1.

Also Ray of Light by Madonna too.
Neil_N
15-08-2014
Some good choices here people
dsmithy2011
15-08-2014
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Adele - Chasing Pavements
dsmithy2011
15-08-2014
Britney Spears - Piece Of Me
Mark-Anthony
15-08-2014
Little Mix DNA (though it was #3)
its the way you make me feel - steps
zackai48
15-08-2014
It has to be Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane (double A side) by The Beatles. It was a travesty that the greatest single ever released never got to the top spot.
Luner13
15-08-2014
Originally Posted by Aura101:
“Spice Girls - Stop ”

That one brings to mind

Geri Halliwell - Look At Me

I remember she only missed out on the #1 as her record company never distributed two formats for the single only one therefore Boyzone beat her (they had the regular two CD/cassette formats)

If she had had two formats she'd have likely had five consecutive number 1 singles on her own - quite a feat.
Micknsiv
15-08-2014
Oasis had a few.
Wonderwall
Roll With It
Stand By Me
Stop Crying Your Out
Little by Little
Let There Be Love
Honestweegie
15-08-2014
Kayleigh, was kept off the top by a charity single.. hate these things
Honestweegie
15-08-2014
Also I much preferred Vicky Beckhams song to the Sophie Ellis Bexter shitte
Hound of Love
15-08-2014
Temptation - Heaven 17

What Have I Done To Deserve This? - Pet Shop Boys/Dusty Springfield

Mirror Man...and (Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League

Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy - Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics

Upside Down - Diana Ross

Milkshake - Kelis

Good call from Fanntastik, with Madonna's Ray Of Light.
SaddlerSteve
15-08-2014
Originally Posted by Micknsiv:
“Oasis had a few.
Wonderwall
Roll With It
Stand By Me
Stop Crying Your Out
Little by Little
Let There Be Love”

Stand By Me was released a few weeks after Princess Diana died. It was kept off the top spot by that awful Candle In The Wind re-release!
BRITLAND
15-08-2014
The most recent one for me would be All Of Me by John Legend, nice to have a piano ballad top the chart instead of the average garbage club track dominating this year
Mark-Anthony
15-08-2014
Use somebody - kings of leon
gold - spandau (however you spell it) ballet
TreyC
15-08-2014
Anastacia - Left Outside Alone
Hound of Love
15-08-2014
Groove Is In The Heart - Deee Lite

Justified & Ancient - KLF/Tammy Wynette

Push It - Salt & Pepa
FMKK
15-08-2014
I'm pretty certain that Brown Sugar by the Stones only got to No.2 in the UK, though it was top of the US chart. That would definitely been a worthy chart-topper.
Scraggy Taters
15-08-2014
My picks from 1990 - 1999

1990 : Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
1991 : Seal - Crazy
1992 : Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
1993 : Haddaway - What Is Love ?
1994 : Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
1995 : Pulp - Common People
1996 : Bluetones - Slight Return
1997 : Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
1998 : Steps - One For Sorrow
1999 : Offspring - Why Don't You Get A Job ?


All poptastically, lyrically-blessed songs deprived of a UK #1.
Scraggy Taters
15-08-2014
Originally Posted by FMKK:
“I'm pretty certain that Brown Sugar by the Stones only got to No.2 in the UK.”


Yup, it was cruelly kept off the UK #1 by ' Dawn - Knock Three Times '.
FanFromHolland
15-08-2014
Moves Like Jagger.
It was stuck at #2 for 7 weeks, behind Example's Stay Awake, Pixie Lott's All About Tonight, , 1D's What makes You Beautiful, Dappy's No Regrets, Sak Noel's Loca People, Rihanna's We Found Love from which the bolded ones are flops in comparison to MLJ
Tejas
15-08-2014
Originally Posted by FanFromHolland:
“Moves Like Jagger.
It was stuck at #2 for 7 weeks, behind Example's Stay Awake, Pixie Lott's All About Tonight, , 1D's What makes You Beautiful, Dappy's No Regrets, Sak Noel's Loca People, Rihanna's We Found Love from which the bolded ones are flops in comparison to MLJ”

Good call! Moves Like Jagger outsold every one of those songs in the long run though, so I guess Maroon 5 had the last laugh.
Hav_mor91
15-08-2014
Kylie Minogue- On A Night Like This, Love At First Sight
Charlote Church- Crazy Chick
La Roux- In For The Kill
Rihanna- SOS, Unfaithful, Rude Boy
Katy Perry- Teenage Dream
FanFromHolland
15-08-2014
Originally Posted by Hav_mor91:
“Katy Perry- Teenage Dream”

It got outsold by the far superior Start Without You, so not really
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