The 2000s Chart Show

McFly are cruising around Uranus, Rihanna is crashing out of the charts and the students of Britain are drinking £1 bottles of VK while listening to Bodyrox’s Yeah Yeah...it must be another week on The 2000s Chart Show! On this week’s music chart 20 years ago, a new dance genre was emerging as electro house smash Put Your Hands Up For Detroit crashed into the ear of 00s pop music fans, while boyba...

This week we look at one of the starriest weeks for the 2006 charts. Beyoncé is putting everything we own in a box to the left (and starting a mini-feud with Ne-Yo in the process), Girls Aloud are releasing the song that turns them into genuine pop music icons, and we get the chart debut of one of the brightest (and most tragic stars) of the 2000s as Amy Winehouse releases Rehab. Also on this epis...

This story from the UK top 40 singles chart we’re looking at this week all seem united by one thing...how it sucks to be a famous pop star. When you’re not suing your record company (Badly Drawn Boy), you’re having people hack your phones (The Ordinary Boys), or you’re going into cocaine psychosis (Rick James) or you’re having to fire band members to STOP yourself going into cocaine psychosis (Pla...

It’s always fun when the British record buying public get behind a totally rubbish song, and 2006 gave us a classic example as the UK tried to get David Hasselhoff’s ‘Jump in My Car’ to the top spot. It has some fierce competition from some actual pop songs, legendary emo tracks and whatever P. Diddy’s ‘Come to Me’ is supposed to be. Will ‘Welcome to the Black Parade’ be parading its way to the to...

We’re soooooooaaaaaarrrrrrrriiinnnnngggggg, we’re flllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyiiiiiiinnnnnnng over another iconic week of 2000s pop music as Troy and Gabriella off of High School Musical reach these shores with their duet Breaking Free. Can the best the Disney Channel has to offer compete with Razorlight controversial play for a bigger audience America or the UK’s continued love affair with the Scissor S...

This week we’re ch-ch-ch-checking it out...it being the top 40 biggest selling pop songs from this week in 2006!Lily Allen is back with the genius idea of rhyming ‘Tesco’ and ‘al fresco’, Janet Jackson is back with a slightly less than genius duet with Nelly, and Evanescence are back with some huge scores to settle. It’s another great week of 2000s music, in other words for everyone except Jet, wh...

The UK top 40 singles chart this week 20 years ago saw the return of The Killers, and we’re here to talk about their their big comeback single When We Were Young. Somebody told me that they were the biggest competition to beat the Scissor Sisters this week in 2006…We’re the 00s pop music history podcast where every episode we’re revisiting the pop charts from this week 20 years ago, which also mea...

“Yeah, but she really is a slag though.” With those immortal words, Jamelia bodied Javine...but while that line is still rightly celebrated, we have forgotten how great Jamelia’s music was in 2006. Luckily, your favourite 2000s pop music history where every episode we’re revisiting the UK top 40 singles chart from this week 20 years ago is here to change that. This week, we’re also talking about F...

Few pieces of pop music have dented a career quite like Robbie Williams’ Rudebox, so I’m so glad to finally be able to talk about this weird electro-rap song about how TK Maxx costs less and how you don’t sweat much for a fat lass. Once called the worst song ever, is it (whisper it) actually a brilliant piece of 2000s pop? We find out on the latest episode of the music history podcast where every...

Justin Timberlake is trying to become the white Prince, Pink is inviting men to ‘shake hands with the milkman’ and even Thom Yorke from Radiohead is writing funky protest songs...it must be another episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast where every episode we’re reliving the biggest songs of this week 20 years ago. This week’s episode features some of the biggest pop music icons of the 00s...

This week on the 2000s pop music history podcast reliving every song from the singles charts of the 00s… “I just want you to know who I am,” bellowed Ronan Keating this week in 2006, as our most anonymous pop star covers The Goo Goo Dolls and derails his career. On the more successful side of things, Beyoncé is back - and it takes a brave pop star to so obviously rip off their own biggest hit and...

They see us rollin’ (to another week of 2000s pop music), they hatin’. After a week off, we return to the last quiet week before the record industry comes back from their summer holidays. Not that there aren’t amazing 00s pop nuggets to enjoy this week 20 years ago on your favourite 2000s pop music history and commentary podcast! Cascada shocked everyone by getting Europop into the US top 10, grot...

We’re the pop music history podcast reliving the biggest songs from every week in the 2000s. This week 20 years ago on the 2006 pop charts, one of the biggest songs of the decade quietly appeared in the middle of the chart. Little did we know that Chasing Cars would just lay here and just forget the world for week upon week. In this episode of your favourite 00s nostaglia podcast, we tell the stor...

Yo ho me pop music history-loving hearties, let’s sail on the good ship The 2000s Chart Show for another trip round the high seas of the 2006 pop charts. And we’re surely going to meet some gruesome sights on this voyage through 2006 music. Like the man who died five times! The reanimated corpse of a Queen song that should have been left in the grave! Lil Wayne! All that, landlubbers, plus ‘new’ m...

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME, WE HAVE A FLOP GIRLBAND ON THE SHOW!!! Rejoice as we explore the career of Nylon, Iceland’s answer to the Spice Girls but without the tunes on the latest episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast dedicated to exploring every single UK singles chart of that most nostalgic of decades. Elsewhere on this week’s UK top 40 in 2006, Gnarls Barkley have the very har...

Things are splintering in the pop music charts by this point in the 2000s. Some chart icons are struggling to get top 10s, while new genres like emo bite at their heels and social media mints a new generation of stars. Men are starting to think that becoming singer-songwriters or doing acoustic guitar covers of pop songs is a good idea (it isn’t), while women dominate the upper reaches of the char...

On this episode of your new favourite 2000s pop music history podcast…A great episode for fans of musicians who love to shout their mouths off. Johnny Borrell is here to slag off every single other indie band, and Lily Allen is moving from MySpace and straight into the UK top 40. Plus, we’re getting the chart debut of literally my favourite band of the entire 2000s. Nostalgia levels highFeaturing...

Loosen up your buttons, babe, and enjoy another episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast reliving the 40 biggest selling songs from this week in 2006! Why did Luke from The Kooks kick Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys in the face? How did Amy Winehouse and The Zutons end up having a drunken row? And why did Melody Thornton from Pussycat Dolls do THAT performance where she tried to upstage...

I never really knew a girl could PODCAST like this, she makes a man wanna speak 2000s POP MUSIC HISTORY. I’m on tonight with another episode looking at the biggest selling tracks from this week 20 years ago, featuring the return of the Black Eyed Peas with a (shocker!) good song, a milestone in landfill indie from The Fratellis, the unfortunate end of Dannii Minogue’s pop career and more. Featurin...

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...

The UK singles charts giveth and they taketh away. So this week 20 years ago, they gave us one of the best song of the 2006, from one of the biggest and best comebacks in pop music history...but they also gave us football-themed rewriting of Tony Christie’s Amarillo. I’d say it’s a game of two halves, but there’s quote enough football talk in this episode already. It’s another ep of The 2000s Char...

It’s another week in 2006, and Robbie Williams is casually bankrupting EMI, Pink is releasing her last good ballad and Matt from Busted is having a go at a solo track after both Charlie and James’ careers are all but over. Elsewhere in the pop charts...Brittany Murphy launches a pop career tragically cut short, Jack Johnson is calming things down a bit, and Keane are getting through a lot of rock...

Do you wish you were a punk rocker (with flowers in your hair)? Then do we have an episode for you! Sandi Thom seemed ready to change the music industry forever with her livestreamed gigs...but was the story a little too good to be true? We’ll find out in the latest episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast where every episode we count down the 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years a...

Has it been a long time since you had a teenage life? Then you’ll probably remember Eurovision 2006, when Daz Sampson’s crap rap was our entry. It flopped on the Athens stage, but how well did it do on the charts? Can it defeat the best Pet Shop Boys single in a decade, the return of Christina Milian, Busta Rhymes sampling Daft Punk and Orson’s follow-up to No Tomorrow? Find out as we count down t...

Is Crazy by Gnarls Barkley about to match the record for longest number one we’ve covered on this show, or can Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beatfreakz, Feeder, Panic at the Disco, Goldfrapp or the dream team of LL Cool J and Jennifer Lopez stop them? Find out in the latest episode of the music history and commentary podcast where every episode we’re telling the stories of the 40 biggest selling songs of...