1999 UK Official Charts Number One Hits SURVIVOR (Round 1)

[Haiku Rewrites]

A random sense of nostalgia and the huge amount of change overs and struggle over who will be the leader of charts in this year, no song holding on to Number 1 position for more than 3 weeks.

This has led me to open this game in honor of the last year of music before the turn of millenium. That's all there is to it.

So which of these 90s artists will hold up and who will fade back into obscurity as we discovers Moopy's favourite artists and number one hits of the end of a decade.

Will Geri Halliwell dominate another Moopy vote? Will any of the Westlife or Boyzone songs make it past Round 1? Who will be thrown to the wolves first and who will receive mercy and respect to carry on?

In this round you are voting to SAVE UP TO 20 ACTS/TRACKS you want to move on to the next round.

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

For this game, I'm going to alternate between two rounds to save, followed by a round to eliminate.

 

[Iguana]

I fricking hate King of my Castle.

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

I fricking hate King of my Castle.

I used to hate it but my gym played it so often I fear I've been brainwashed into appreciating it.

 

[Iguana]

I think my favourite from the list is Blondie's Maria. What a comeback!

 

[Tisch]

I've gone for... Well all the obvious ones

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Westlife remain utter fucking garbage.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

That 911 vote deserves drowning.

 

[ButterTart]

Stunning that nobody has yet voted for the white knuckle dynamism of Boyzone covering Ann Murray

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

Stunning that nobody has yet voted for the white knuckle dynamism of Boyzone covering Ann Murray

I would have voted for it IF IT WAS the Anne Murray version. Boyzone's version does nothing for me. Too vapid imo.

 

[ButterTart]

@Pingu also appreciating It's Only Us, I see
It deserved so much better than being stapled to the truly fuckawful She's The One, one of my absolute least favourite songs of all time.

 

[D5K]

Possibly my favourite year of music, or at least one I have the most emotional connection to. I actually felt something inside from the wave of nostalgia from just scrolling down that list.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I fricking hate King of my Castle.

 

[ButterTart]

I fricking hate King of my Castle.

 

[dmlaw]

15 votes and only 10 for 9pm (Til I Come). Who knew that one third of Moopy were THAT evil?

 

[RJN]

King of My Castle is in my top 3 for sure

 

[RJN]

I've definitely listened to all of them, but I cannot remember a bunch of the Boyzone and Westlife songs

 

[AGinAg (37)]

SO MANY FORUM WITCHES!

 

[Tisch]

We literally had a NOW CD on yesterday and that Boyzone one was track TWO. Neither of us remembered it at all.

 

[OutSynk]

Possibly my favourite year of music, or at least one I have the most emotional connection to. I actually felt something inside from the wave of nostalgia from just scrolling down that list.

It's the year MTV became my life.

 

[funky]

What an absolutely horrendous list of songs

1999 was an amazing year for dance music but R&B was dying a death and pop music had gone girl/boy band and europop crazy. There were so many megahits and the sales were insane but it just went TOO mainstream for me.

I’m sure this is my least favourite year for number ones. So much novelty PAP

 

[funky]

I picked 3 of them the rest can all fuck off.

2000 was a much better year for #1s

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I believe @Suomi is evil.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Has the VERY EXPENSIVE and SOPHISTICATED Millennium Prayer video been deleted off YouTube?

 

[AGinAg (37)]

It really was the decade of very pricey videos.

Yet two of the biggest hits of 1999 videos that looked like they were produced on an A-level social media course.

(Cliff and Eiffel 65)

 

[OutSynk]

Fly Away only on 6 votes.

 

[ButterTart]

Fly Away only on 6 votes.

That song was kicked to death on an advert BEFORE it even got released.

 

[Lucille]

I had no idea CHEF got a number 1!

 

[Haiku Rewrites]

I had no idea CHEF got a number 1!

Number 1 in both 1998 and 1999 even!

 

[funky]

Fly Away (while I like) is like the worst song on the "5" album. But then, it is a VERY good album.

 

[VoR]

Westlife obviously dreadful, but I still had to throw a vote to my beloved comedy classic Seasons In The Sun.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

We had JOY
We had FUN
We had a seance up your BUM

 

[VoR]

I posted it somewhere else quite recently, but the facial expressions DESTROY ME.

Bryan's fake emoting and Lee Ryan level terrible ad-libbing towards the end is the highlight, but they're all on rare form. Useless little Nicky with his SAD SAD DOWNCAST EYES also sends me.

 

[Alla]

I fricking hate King of my Castle

Glad to know i'm not the only one who detests this overrated annoying piece of shit.

 

[VV]

I agree about King of my castle, but Sweet like chocolate is even worse!

 

[straightorbroken]

What an amazing new series @Haiku

 

[RS]

I feel like I could’ve easily voted to save the whole list except for Westlife and Boyzone.

 

[AGinAg (37)]

Duff duff duff BOING

 

[RS]

Strange to see King of My Castle topping the charts in November. This was very much a summer hit here.

 

[RS]

All those fabulous dance tracks from that year but the list is really missing Shaft’s Sway and Moloko’s Bring It Back.