Hello one, hello all - and welcome to our first blog post of a new year and new decade! Today we begin The Story of Pop: 2000. Following on from our successful series about 1999 last year, every Thursday at midday we'll be boarding our pop tardis back to two whole decades ago, to revisit … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 1)
OK. So we're not quite done yet. As a little thank you for all the lovely feedback I've had on this series, here's one more special post for you. A collection of 12 songs that were also hits in 1999, which I didn't have time for on the main series. Among this list, you'll find … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 – Bonus Tracks
It's Thursday, it's midday, and - sadly - it's time for the last installment of The Story of Pop: 1999. Over the last 12 months on this here blog, we've retold the story of the songs and the artists that were riding high at the top of the UK charts twenty years ago, but today … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 51)
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)
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to once again see what was storming the UK charts two whole decades ago, with The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the launch of three feisty Liverpool lasses as they sunk their claws into the top 10... The pop explosion that the Spice Girls had started was still … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 49)
If you're fancying a trip back to what was tearing up the UK charts as the London Eye was being erected on the South Bank, or as the latest James Bond film hit the big screen (The World Is Not Enough), then you've come to the right place, as we bring you another chapter from … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 48)
Welcome to this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, the weekly retelling of all the UK singles chart action from two whole decades ago. This week: our last chart topper this series to come from clubland... Well. I tell a slight lie there. We do have one more dancefloor oriented record to cover … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 47)
It's midday, it's Thursday, and time as always for us to hop aboard our little musical pre-Y2K pop tardis we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a second chart topper for a man who had one of the top 10 biggest selling albums for two years running... At the start of … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 46)
It's funny how much has changed in ten years. Not least of all The X Factor. Once the cornerstone and an unmissable powerhouse of Saturday night entertainment on ITV, pulling in 16m viewers at its peak, it actually once did what it said on the tin and produced stars. Nowadays, it's a pitiful and irrelevant … Continue reading JLS: a retrospective piece on the 10th anniversary of their debut album
Welcome to this week's edition of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back at the all the big movements in the UK charts of twenty years ago. And I suggest you strap yourselves in for this week people, because we have not one, but TWO - yes, two - songs to cover. Prepare … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 45)
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