The Story of Pop: 1998. It's our weekly revisit in the form of a pop time capsule to the UK charts as they sounded and looked exactly 25 years ago. This week: Denmark's biggest pop export silence their "one hit wonder" critics in style... Artist: Aqua Song: Doctor Jones Released: 26/01/1998 Writers / Producers: Anders … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1998 (Chapter 5)
Category: Europop
The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 38)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time once again to bring you another slice of the UK charts as they looked and sounded twenty whole years ago. This is The Story of Pop: 1999. And this week, another imported dancefloor filler - this time from Italy - that was the second biggest selling single of the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 38)
The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 30)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to once again hop aboard the pop musical tardis that is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the summer bangers of 20 years ago continue apace with one of the biggest dance hits of the year... As 1998 had been a good year to be from Ireland, 1999 … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 30)
#BlastfromthePast: Aqua
Now here's a blogging DeLorean hop this weekend that will make certain readers - namely around my age - feel old. Can you believe it's 20 years to the week that a certain group of Danish Europop legends topped the charts with an ode to the world's most plastic fantastic doll? The story of Aqua … Continue reading #BlastfromthePast: Aqua