This is The Story of Pop: 2000, our week by week revisit back to the sights and sounds of the UK charts and the acts behind the hits from the turn of the new millennium. Let's crack on with this week's huge hit... 2000 had a lot in common with 1999. Chiefly - as we'll … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 24)
Always here every Thursday at midday to revisit the sights and sounds of the UK chart as it looked two whole decades ago, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. Onto this week's entry then - and by my reckoning, it's time for a bit of an S Club party... The new millennium had undoubtedly … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 23)
Revisiting the UK chart smashes from the year France won the Euro football championships and when Sir Michael Caine received his knighthood, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the tale of a UK club smash that found fame Stateside before topping our charts for three weeks... We saw earlier in the series … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 22)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time as always to continue our look back at all the big UK chart hits from the turn of the millennium with The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the third and final chart topper for a future assistant to the Time Lord... It's strange to think that with all … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 21)
Taking our weekly Tardis ride back to the sights and sounds of the UK charts as they were at the turn of the millennium, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the sassy Antipodean floorfiller that struck it second time lucky... Formed of songwriter, DJ and producer Andy Van Dorsselaer and impossibly pouty … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 20)
Time once again, as we do every Thursday, to take you back to the sights and sounds of the UK top 40 as it looked two whole decades ago with The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: Britney does it yet again... By the start of May 2000, it had been just over a year … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 19)
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)
It's midday on Thursday, and time to take another look back at the big UK chart hits from the turn of the millennium with The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: a US R&B diva makes her final UK top 10 entry with an absolute classic banger... Before the spring of 2000, husky voiced US … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 17)
Revisiting the sights and sounds of the UK charts from the year Professor Robert Winston started chronicling the lives of 21st century newborns in Child of Our Time on BBC One, and when Billy Elliot hit the box office, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: the tale of two underperforming dance tracks … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 16)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time once again to revisit another huge UK chart hit from the turn of the millennium with The Story of Pop: 2000. This week - the debut UK number one for Southampton's biggest musical export... It's funny really. A record like Artful Dodger's seminal UK garage banger 'Re-Rewind' that we … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 15)
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