It's Thursday, and time once again to bring you the best of the UK chart's biggest hits from two decades ago like an amazing pop tardis. This is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: one of the largest - and loudest - new pop groups of the year make their debut at the top … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 24)
Telling the tales behind the hits of the year that bought us the third book in the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling and the TV debut of Bob the Builder, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: the newspaper column turned motivational life speech turned last spoken word chart topper to date... … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 23)
It's Thursday, and time once again to throw things back to the UK charts twenty years ago, with The Story of Pop: 1999. And if you were in your teens and paying attention to what was on the box or big screen back in 1999, then boy do we have a song that you'll instantly … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 22)
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)
It's Thursday, and time once again to throw back to the final year of pop gloriousness in the 20th century with The Story of Pop: 1999. A question for you this week: what was the biggest selling single of the year to not make the top of the chart? Answer... It's not unfair to say … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 20)
Offering up the sights and sounds from the turn of the Millennium hit parade, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. And ladies, you may want to steady yourselves, for this week we have one of the world's biggest boybands of all time... It's only when I come to write a new one of these … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 19)
Retelling the tales behind some of the biggest UK chart hits of 20 years ago and the stars that made them hits, this is The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: a universally acknowledged turn of the millennium R&B classic from one of the most successful all female groups of all time... If you look … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 18)
It's Thursday - although with the four day week it may feel like a Wednesday - meaning it's time to hop aboard our musical time machine of 20 years ago in another edition of The Story of Pop: 1999. This week: one of the biggest pop rock bands to come out of Scotland launch the … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 17)
We have a small confession to make, dear readers. Regular viewers of our retro pop series of posts titled The Story of Pop: 1999 (back this Thursday at midday as always) will remember we featured a lovely if lesser recalled top 10 hit from Catatonia two weeks ago. The reason for this might have seemed … Continue reading ‘Thank ABBA for the Music’ at 20: a defining pop moment of 1999
This is The Story of Pop: 1999, our weekly series that transports you back two decades ago to the movers and shakers in the UK charts from the last year of the 20th century. If it was big in 1999, we'll be featuring it here. This week: we revisit one of the year's biggest floor … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 1999 (Chapter 16)
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