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Number 1s which shouldn't have been number 1
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" |
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I'm going with the will.i.am Birthday song
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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" |
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They're annoying and overplayed and "Good Feeling" didn't deserve it as it ripped off Avicii - "Levels"
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They're annoying and overplayed and "Good Feeling" didn't deserve it as it ripped off Avicii - "Levels"
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There's a difference between songs which shouldn't have been number 1 and popular songs you didn't like.
If a song sold the most that week, then it deserved to be number 1. |
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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" ![]() Besides, Call Me Maybe in particular was a solid pop song and fully deserved to be hit. |
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Probably showing my age here!
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! |
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There's a difference between songs which shouldn't have been number 1 and popular songs you didn't like.
If a song sold the most that week, then it deserved to be number 1. |
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Peter Andre - I Feel You (so bland even Peter Andre can't remember how this goes!!!)
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. |
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Probably showing my age here!
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! |
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'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.
![]() 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. |
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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. |
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Also, every X Factor winners song except Shayne Ward - "That's My Goal"
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It's a crime that Madonna's weak and uninspired karaoke version of American Pie hit #1 while the original version by Don McLean peaked at #2.
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It's a crime that Madonna's weak and uninspired karaoke version of American Pie hit #1 while the original version by Don McLean peaked at #2.
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Same with Lily Allen's version of "Somewhere Only We Know" when Keane's version peaked at #3
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! |
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Cheryl Cole- Crazy, Stupid Love an awful song.
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Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball". The fact it kept Eminem - "Berzerk" off number 1 is even more embarrassing.
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Probably showing my age here!
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! |
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Gareth Gates' version of "Unchained Melody". It was bad enough Robson & Jerome ruining the song but it was even worse Gareth Gates ruining the song.
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Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball". The fact it kept Eminem - "Berzerk" off number 1 is even more embarrassing.
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Nothing beats a woman in her underwear.
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Gareth Gates' version of "Unchained Melody". It was bad enough Robson & Jerome ruining the song but it was even worse Gareth Gates ruining the song.
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That was mostly the reason the song went to #1
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. |
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