Bringing you yet more retro smashes from the UK charts as they looked a quarter of a century ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. This week: a young emerging prince of R&B makes his UK chart debut - and how... Artist: Usher Song: You Make Me Wanna... Released: 19/01/1998 Writers / Producers: Usher … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 4)
Revisiting all the hits from the year Google was founded, and when Jackie Brown and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels hit the big screen, this is The Story of Pop: 1998. And here comes another big hit from 25 years ago - which was also the biggest single for this band... Artist: Lighthouse Family … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 3)
Welcome once again to this week's instalment of The Story of Pop: 1998. Now it's at this point we should tell you that the UK charts of 25 years ago was full and plenty with girl groups, so here comes our first of two encounters with one of that year's biggest... Artist: All Saints Song: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 2)
Happy New Year! Today we commence another look back at the UK charts of yesteryear, and this time, our wayback machine is set to this time 25 years ago. Get ready - this is The Story of Pop: 1998.Over the next year, every Thursday at 9am, we will revisit the UK singles chart from a … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 1)
Hello all, So today is my last full day of the year before the festive break. As always, I wanted to share a little something I'd written before I disappeared off to have some much needed down time. Lately I've not really been in the best frame of mind, and it occurred to me that … Continue reading A poem for this Christmas
Before we bade farewell to 2002 one last time (in blog post form that is), we have one more treat for you. If you've read and followed the 1999 or 2000 series then you'll know all about our Bonus Tracks. By way of thank you for reading along, it's a blog, Spotify playlist and videos … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Bonus Tracks)
After 51 weeks, 27 different number ones and pretty much every genre of music under the sun that the UK charts offered you 20 years ago, today we bring you our final chapter from The Story of Pop: 2002. And battle commences - as it often does at this time of year - for our … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 51)
Today marks the start of what is by far, even with how streaming has skewed things in recent years, the most important date for avid watchers of the UK charts, as the battle to become the Christmas number one single for 2022 a week hence gets under way.And whilst the charts have been full to … Continue reading #CrazyStupidPlaylist: Christmas Future Classics
Welcome to our penultimate look back on the UK singles chart movements of two whole decades ago, with this week's instalment of The Story of Pop: 2002. This week: the biggest boyband of the moment team up with pop royalty... Artist: Blue feat. Elton John Song: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Released: 08/12/2002 … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 50)
It's time once again to set the wayback machine to the UK charts as they looked two whole decades ago, with The Story of Pop: 2002. This week: a huge chart topper from the soundtrack of a superstar rapper's movie debut... Artist: Eminem Song: Lose Yourself Released: 02/12/2002 Writers / Producers: Marshall Mathers / Jeff … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 49)
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