16 weeks from June to October,and it kept about half a dozen songs off the top. I remember a being at a friend's house and him saying "this is getting ridiculous now" when it clocked up that 16th week. The following week the DJ doing the Sunday rundown (not sure now which one) played a blinder by not giving a thing away before saying "Will Bryan Adams be number 1 for a 17th week?",then a lengthy pause,then "No!" before he played it. A few people were probably doing cartwheels down the street after hearing the news. Wet Wet Wet was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1994,from the early summer to early September.
@@rjjcms1 U2 did a limited time release of "The Fly" which helped condense its sales into the first week and dethrone Bryan. If not for that, it could have been there even longer. Wet Wet Wet actually deleted the song or that could have been there for longer too.
@@gnu_andrew That's absolutely correct. Consequently,The Fly crashed straight in at number 1 but the following week it was number 2,then 5,then 27 and then gone entirely! At the same time Achtung Baby was being promoted really heavily. Wet Wet Wet did indeed delete Love is All Around as a single,otherwise who knows how much longer it could have been up there? Perhaps even they were sick and tired of it! The song that finally replaced it at the top was Saturday Night by Whigfield. Quack quack quack quack...Di Di a La La!
@@rjjcms1 yes, I remember being very glad when "Saturday Night" did knock it off. I've never been a fan of the Wet Wet Wet cover and we'd heard "Saturday Night" on holiday quite a while before it made #1.
Who would have thought that going into the 90s, 5 Actors and 2 Comedians would end up number 1 on the UK Charts. With the Comedians doing it twice with the same song.
Yup! Started it as a 20-yr-old, unmarried but engaged shop-assistant, Livin at home, no responsibilities, ended it as a 30-yr-old, married, business-owning dad of 5, by 3 mothers, having moved house 22 times. Busy decade!!! 😂
Most of the N.1s are great songs ...but I think you missed the N.1 of Take That with Lulu "Relight my fire"..2 weeks between....BOOM! SHAKE THE ROOM JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE and I'D DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (BUT I WON'T DO THAT) MEAT LOAF Is that so ?
Interesting fact: Iron Maiden has ever only had one UK number one, Bring your Daughter to the Slaughter Meanwhile they also had 2 number 1 albums which were Piece of Mind and The Final Frontier
This is such an AWFUL representation of music in the 90s. I can't believe the Brits were so shallow, especially given how much excellent music came out of _their own country_ during the same decade. Amazing that The Prodigy even managed to enter this list TWICE given all the mellow pop crap it's surrounded by. Youngsters, don't take this at face value. The 90s were so much better.
Well, I for one, find it extraordinary that you can talk such mind-numbing garbage, attempt to make it sound plausible, think you're talking sense AND actually believe your own horseshit! Shallow? I think you'll find that "shallow," at the time, certainly wasn't confined to us "Brits!" by NO MEANS was it!!! For pitys SAKE, moron! You're talking about the charts! The charts are 'shallows' BREEDING GROUND! It's where 'shallow' begins and ends! THE WORLD OVER! Aussie-pop, Euro-pop, US-pop, latino-pop, to name but a mere few! ALL contributed mightily to "SHALLOW" for decades, not just in the 90s! Are you actually stupid and ignorant enough to be looking for "earth-shattering, life-affirming sincerity" ... in CHART MUSIC!!??? If so, then I can only imagine your opinions on most, if not ALL, other subjects in life, if not ignored entirely, are to be taken with a significant, contemptuous pinch of salt!!! ... IDIOT!!!
Yes they did! And we were all very grateful to blur and Oasis for doing so!!! You see, the "music" of take that, wasn't really even music, but merely, silence... coloured in...!!!
While from the US chart from same time I remember almost all the songs, here I see a lot of hits I never heard although I lived in Europe. But late 90s the UK and US charts went totally separate ways anyway.
Well, she was only a dancer in the video, but we see her here at 1:19, so basically not only Gary Barlow was in the charts back in the 90's but also his future wife Dawn once was. Lol😂👏
Ciaran green:... not particularly surprising, after all, what were nirvana? A bit of decent drum, grungy guitar and a morose, depressive, drug-ravaged suicidal lead singer, tragic what that decent musician did to himself, but whose hideous influence, I for one, frankly wouldn't want anywhere near anyone I care about!!!
Smells Like Teen Spirit - number 7 (only) in November 1991 Come as You Are - number 9 (only) in March 1992 A good half a dozen tracks hit the charts from the album Nevermind,which must have sold enormous amounts.