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)
Bringing you the sights and the sounds of the UK charts from the year that Keanu Reeves stepped into The Matrix on the big screen and when Sara Cox joined the breakfast show on Radio 1, this is The Story of Pop: 2000. This week: a lesser spotted gem of turn of the millennium R&B... … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 3)
ARTIST: No Rome feat. Dijon SONG: Trust3000 SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? A small disclaimer, readers. The older we, the present writer get, the more aware of the fact we sound decidedly less hip when introducing a new name in music then we did say, a decade ago, particularly when … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: No Rome feat. Dijon – ‘Trust3000’
It's Thursday, it's midday, and time to bring you our second installment of our new retrospective music series of blogs, with The Story of Pop: 2000, revisiting all the UK chart's big movers and shakers from two decades ago. This week: our first encounter with a man whose work defined this year... Our second week, … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 2)
ARTIST: Niall Horan SONG: Put A Little Love On Me SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Fresh from winning Man of the Year in our annual End of Year Prizes, Niall Horan only has the honour of being the man behind our first brand new #SongoftheWeek for 2020. Some guys have … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Niall Horan – ‘Put A Little Love On Me’
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)
So. It may have not escaped your notice that I'm doing Christmas a bit differently on the blog this year. Where before I usually did my Christmas Song a Day Advent Calendar, this year I've decided to do something a bit more low maintenance. Along the same lines as my #15Daysof30Lists I did in the … Continue reading #12ListsofChristmas: Day 1
ARTIST: The Shires SONG: New Year SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been a while since we last heard from The Shires, but good news, because - to use Smash Hits' parlance - they are Back! Back! Back! And not only are they back, but they're launching their forthcoming fourth … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: The Shires – ‘New Year’
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