The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the series, every Thursday at midday here on the blog, where we take you back to the sights and sounds of the UK charts as we bade goodbye to an old millennium and welcomed in a new one. This week: seventh time's the charm for one of Britain's biggest … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 44)
It's midday, it's Thursday, and that can mean only one thing - time for another installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly look back at the biggest hits from the year we all went Y2K crazy. This week: one of that autumn's biggest singles that launched the career of this gravelly voiced soul … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 43)
Bringing you more hits from a year packed full of them like a Y2K party popper, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a British R&B girl group with a history as prolific as their late 90s hits were... There's a history lesson in more ways than one for our featured act today, … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 42)
It's Thursday, so that means it's time once again for this week's installment of The Story of Pop: 1999, where we revisit all the big chart smashes and the artists that made them hits from twenty years ago. We're onto our last ten entries of the series now can you believe it - and this … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 41)
This is The Story of Pop: 1999. It's the story, telling you, week by week, of all the UK chart movers and shakers of two whole decades ago. So if you were wondering what song about the sun shining connected with last week's hit from Bob Marley, a hearty congratulations to you if you said … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 40)
Packed with more UK chart hits from two decades ago than a Y2K party popper, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a reggae music legend is bought onto the dancefloors of the new millennium... A long standing icon in the world of reggae music, Bob Marley, with his band The Wailers, had … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 39)
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)
It's The Story of Pop: 1999. It's our series, week by week, that tells the story of the hits from the UK charts at the dawn of a new millennium, and the artists that made them so. This week: another Latino/Mambo record, but one that happily has a story and legacy all of its own … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 37)
Bringing back the sights and sounds of the UK charts as they were in the last twelve months of the 20th century, this is the weekly pop tardis we like to call The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: another big imported holiday hit - and Latino flavoured track - of that year roars to … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 36)
It's The Story of Pop: 1999. Every Thursday, at midday, we take you back in time to the UK's biggest chart hits of 20 years ago and tell you the stories behind them. And get ready, because we've got one of the year's biggest floorfillers kicking off a whole month of dance related entries... 'Do … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 35)
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