1997 UK Official Charts Number One Hits SURVIVOR (Semi-Final - Vote for your Top 2)

Vote for your favourites to SAVE

  • No Doubt - Don't Speak (22nd February)

    Votes: 22 55.0%

  • Spice Girls - Who Do You Think You Are (15th March)

    Votes: 25 62.5%

  • Olive - You're Not Alone (17th May)

    Votes: 23 57.5%
  • Total voters
    40
  • Poll closed .
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After a very close race between Spices and Olive, it is "Spice Up Your Life" that shimmies its way out of the competition, ending in a respectable 4th place.

Results:
04. Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life (25th October) - Quarter-Final (41.5% to evict)
05. Eternal feat. Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be the Only One (31st May) - Round 7 (27.8%)
06. Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (4th January) - Round 6 (15.9%)
07. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (It's Got to Be Big) (18th January) - Round 5 (52.2% to evict)
07. Aqua - Barbie Girl (1st November) - Round 5 (52.2% to evict)
09. White Town - Your Woman (25th January) - Round 4 (34.4%)
10. The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work (13th September) - Round 4 (31.3%)
11. Spice Girls - Too Much (27th December) - Round 3 (45.2% to evict)
12. Hanson - MMMBop (7th June) - Round 3 (47.6% to evict)
13. Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112 - I'll Be Missing You (28th June) - Round 3 (64.3% to evict)
14. BBC Various Artists - Perfect Day (29th November) - Round 2 (30.6%)
15. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats (5th April) - Round 2 (27.8%)
16. Spice Girls - Mama (15th March) - Round 2 (22.2%)
17. Blur - Beetlebum (1st February) - Round 2 (19.4%)
18. Elton John - Something About The Way You Look Tonight (20th September) - Round 2 (16.7%)
19. Michael Jackson - Blood on the Dance Floor (3rd May) - Round 2 (13.9%)
20. Will Smith - Men in Black (16th August) - Round 2 (11.1%)
21. Teletubbies - Teletubbies say "Eh-Oh" (13th December) - Round 1 (21.3%)
22. U2 - Discothèque (15th February) - Round 1 (17.0%)
23. Oasis - D'You Know What I Mean? (19th July) - Round 1 (12.8%)
24. Elton John - Candle in the Wind 1997 (20th September) - Round 1 (10.6%)
25. LL Cool J - Ain't Nobody (8th February) - Round 1 (4.3%)
25. R. Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly (12th April) - Round 1 (4.3%)
27. Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait (10th May) - Round 1 (2.1%)

In this Semi-Final, you are VOTING TO SAVE the two songs you most want in the Final. You can cast two votes this round to this and the two acts with the most votes will advance to the Final of Survivor 1997. :disco:
 
This really ought to have been a battle between Spice Up Your Life and the girl who does my nails (Esther).

I should probably vote Olive as it's aged gorgeously and can easily get me in the mood for Dannii's Girl and Way Out West etc, but Spice Girls not being cool anymore is rather pase.
 
If it weren’t for the Spice Girls, I would want Olive to win. In fact I like You’re Not Alone more than WDYTYA, but that’s not how I’m going to vote.
 
What’s strange about what I said? I loved the girls as a thing more than their music (even if I enjoyed it a lot).
 
I didn’t want Spice Girls for the sake of Spice Girls but it feels CORRECT (ugh I hate gay people) that WTYTYA made it further than SUYL

I mean if we were voting on the basis of girl power or moments (particularly ones that happened 15 years later), then sure, I get it.

But I thought SUYL is just a mess, as they say, too much of something is bad enough.

WDYTYA would be a worthy winner, though I sort of hope they get shafted so the full Spice Loon power can get 2B1 to 1996 victory
 
I realised this is the same reason I hate things like the Oscars - it’s another thing where we are supposed to be judging the quality of the work, but we are still bunging in all these extraneous factors
 
I’m fully team Olive. That song turned vocalist Ruth-Ann Boyle into a household name; her enduring success a testament to the quality of the song that launched her.
The other two ‘launched’ Gwen Stacy and Gerald Hollywell. Um, WHO?
 
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