ARTIST: Planet 1999 SONG: Party SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? How very annoying. We finish up writing a series of blogs about pop music from 1999, then a brand new pop act comes along named after that very fine year. Still, we'll forgive Planet 1999 for their tardiness. The French … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Planet 1999 – ‘Party’
The Story of Pop: 2000. It's our series of posts, week by week, where we retell the story behind the biggest hits in the UK charts from two whole decades ago. This week: our first chart topper of the series from a lady who returned there seven years after her first visit... Cast your minds … Continue reading The Story of Pop: 2000 (Chapter 5)
If you're after a midweek mood boost, then you've come to the right place, as we bring you three more positive headline makers right now in this week's installment of The Good News Week. If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember this is a place for you to … Continue reading The Good News Week (29/01/2020)
Bringing you seven more nuggets of hilarity from our social media travels in the last week to lighten up your Monday, this is #TweetHeeHee. So let's not waste another moment and bring on the LOLs for a brand new week... HER RESUMÉ SAYS SHE'S A BAD GIRL Kudos to Toby Parkin for spotting The Saturdays … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (27/01/2020)
ARTIST: Jonas Brothers SONG: What A Man Gotta Do SO ALEX, WHY IS THIS YOUR SONG OF THE WEEK? Really, this shouldn't have happened. Jonas Brothers' "Sucker" was one of our surprise pop bops of last year, in constant rotation on our Spotify, number one across the world and still to this day it remains … Continue reading #SongoftheWeek: Jonas Brothers – ‘What A Man Gotta Do’
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)
It's Wednesday people, and if you're needing a midweek mood boost via some uplifting headline makers, you've come to the right place. Welcome to our first edition of The Good News Week for 2020 - with an all-new look to boot! If you enjoy the stories we've found this week, let us know - remember … Continue reading The Good News Week (15/01/2020)
Hello one, hello all. And if you're down about the weather or January generally, then we have the perfect Monday pick me up right here, right now, as we bring you the first installment of #TweetHeeHee for 2020. Time waits for no man, so let's bring on the LOLs for a brand new week (and … Continue reading #TweetHeeHee (13/01/2020)
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’
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