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Released TWENTY ONE YEARS AGO YESTERDAY!
Bye babeIf I see anything below 10, I'm leaving.
As much as I love it, I get the not knowing quite why. I think it was a huge testament to the public's appetite for her as a pure pop star, and the kind of good will she elicits to this day.Delighted it did for her what it needed to, though. I'm still not sure I understand how or why at the time, but it doesn't matter!
Wasn’t On A Night Like This quite a bit before? We had Kids before the album was released, no? I have August for OANLT and October for the album in my head, which I’m now about to check.When did the album snippets leak (or possibly officially released?) I know we had Spinning Around earlier in the year, and then OANLT a week or two before the album. I'm guessing we heard them slightly ahead of the release of OANLT.
TEARS OF DISCO JOY etc
September 2000. What a month to be gay. 'Music' hit at the same time, didn't it?
It's also worth remembering where she was coming from at that time as a commercial force.Not to in any way denigrate Spinning Around or what it did for her, but she actually had a pretty clean run at that #1 when it happened.
She dethroned a fairly weak chart topper (Black Legend’s You See The Trouble With Me) and the next highest new entry was David Gray’s Babylon at #5. The song that was probably perceived to be her biggest competition, Girl Thing’s Last One Standing, wound up tanking at #8.
Official Singles Chart on 25/6/2000
www.officialcharts.com
Spinning Around actually dropped out of the top ten in its third week, which is a little flimsy even for the manic turnover of 2000.
It’s interesting to think about what would have happened in another world where she has more competition and winds up going in at #5 or something. Does she still get CGYOOMH or does it go to a bigger name? Thankfully we’ll never know...
It's also worth remembering where she was coming from at that time as a commercial force.
Not to in any way denigrate Spinning Around or what it did for her, but she actually had a pretty clean run at that #1 when it happened.
She dethroned a fairly weak chart topper (Black Legend’s You See The Trouble With Me) and the next highest new entry was David Gray’s Babylon at #5. The song that was probably perceived to be her biggest competition, Girl Thing’s Last One Standing, wound up tanking at #8.
Official Singles Chart on 25/6/2000
www.officialcharts.com
Spinning Around actually dropped out of the top ten in its third week, which is a little flimsy even for the manic turnover of 2000.
It’s interesting to think about what would have happened in another world where she has more competition and winds up going in at #5 or something. Does she still get CGYOOMH or does it go to a bigger name? Thankfully we’ll never know...
It's also worth remembering where she was coming from at that time as a commercial force.