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)
ARTIST: Endor SONG: Pump It Up SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? It's been a while since the charts have delivered us anything resembling a floorfilling deep house/dance anthem, particularly at a time of year when seasonal ballads are generally the consensus. Brighton based DJ and producer Endor has delivered with … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Endor – ‘Pump It Up’
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)
ARTIST: The Script SONG: Run Through Walls SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Something strange happened with Dublin rockers The Script on their last album, 2017's chart topping 'Freedom Child'. They tried to move towards a more contemporary sound than what we usually know and love them for, evidenced by that … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: The Script – ‘Run Through Walls’
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)
ARTIST: Dua Lipa SONG: Don't Start Now SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Despite her eponymous debut album in 2017 being a huge hit, spawning off chart toppers like 'New Rules' and 'IDGAF', I will hold my hands up and say Dua Lipa and indeed her success had passed me by. … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Dua Lipa – ‘Don’t Start Now’
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)
ARTIST: Rick Astley SONG: Every One of Us SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Even though some would argue the concept has been made redundant when a self built playlist of an artist's back catalogue is available online in seconds, that hasn't stopped many from still giving a greatest hits album … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Rick Astley – ‘Every One of Us’
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