This is The Story of Pop: 2002, your weekly revisitation of all the top turns and hits of the UK charts as they looked twenty years ago. And with this year's Mercury Prize due to be handed out next week, it's a former winner that we revisit for this week's featured hit... Artist: Ms. DynamiteSong: … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2002 (Chapter 35)
Revisiting all the biggest hits and hitmakers of the UK charts from twenty years ago, as we do every Thursday at midday, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. And when we say we've got two songs to cover this week, you know it's going to be an epic entry. Brace yourselves as we cast … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 34)
Welcome to this week's instalment of The Story of Pop: 2000, as we revisit another huge UK chart smash from two whole decades ago. This week: the tale of two South London teenagers who rocketed to the top with an unusual take on UK garage... There could be little doubting that UK garage was the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 18)
Bringing you even more of the sights and sounds of the UK charts from the turn of the millennium, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week - the follow-up to one of the biggest UK garage tracks of all time... The success of Artful Dodger's 'Re-Rewind (The Crowd Say 'Bo Selecta)' had been … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 9)
It's Thursday, and midday, which would thus make this the optimum time to revisit another UK chart smash from exactly twenty years ago. It's time for The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the last of our 1999 hangover hits that gained a second wind in the new millennium... The groundswell of support for UK … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 4)
Welcome to the penultimate installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly series on the blog where we recount all the UK singles chart's hot movers and shakers from two whole decades ago. This week: a UK garage anthem that defined a generation - and launched the career of one young bright thing from … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 50)
ARTIST: DJ Spoony presents Garage Classical feat. Sugababes SONG: Flowers SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Where art thou the class of BBC Radio 1 from 1999? If you're Sara Cox or Zoë Ball, you're probably the sound of Britain that listens to Radio 2 getting up in the morning or … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: DJ Spoony presents Garage Classical feat. Sugababes – ‘Flowers’
Revisiting the hits and sounds of the UK singles chart 20 years ago, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the UK's then hottest new dance music genre around makes a triumphant surge to the very top of the chart via a much in demand floorfiller... 1999 undoubtedly saw the rise of one … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 21)
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