This week on the 2000s pop music history podcast counting down the 40 biggest selling songs from this week 20 years ago… “it’s coming home...” by which I mean Three Lions is back on the chart for the (approximately) 28 millionth time. It is just one of the football tracks trying to knock Sandi Thom off the top spot, with Crazy Frog and a nasty piece of xenophobia backed by The Sun battling Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds.
For those of you who actually prefer real 2000s pop music, we get Sugababes and The Streets both overwhelming with ballads, Morrissey going mental on his record company, and Duncan from Blue trying and failing to have a solo career.
This week’s episode features the following songs:
The Automatic - Monster
Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions
Beatfreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me
Busta Rhymes - Touch It
Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy - Say I
Crazy Frog - We Are the Champions (Ding a Dang Dong)
Depeche Mode - John the Revelator/Lilian
Duncan James - Sooner or Later
Embrace - World at Your Feet
The Feeling - Fill My Little World
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Hope of the States - Sing It Out
Infernal - From Paris to Berlin
Keane - Is It Any Wonder
The Kooks - Naive
LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself
Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah
Mariah Carey feat. Snoop Dogg - Say Somethin’
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Morrissey - The Youngest Was the Most Loved
Nelly Furtado - Maneater
Nerina Pallot - Everybody’s Gone to War
Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
Ordinary Boys and Lady Sovereign - Nine2Five
Orson - Bright Idea
Orson - No Tomorrow
Pink - Who Knew
Primal Scream - Country Girl
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Rihanna - SOS
Ronan Keating and Kate Rusby - All Over Again
Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)
Shayne Ward - No Promises
Stan Boardman - Stan’s World Cup Song
The Streets - Never Went to Church
Sugababes - Follow Me Home
Talksport Allstars - We’re England (Tom Hark)
Tonedef Allstars - Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?
Tony Christie - (Is This The Way to) the World Cup
Trinidad & Tobago Tartan Army - Scotland Scotland Jason Scotland
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