The 2000s Chart Show

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...

This week on the pop music history podcast reliving the 40 biggest selling songs from every week of the 2000s…As Rihanna, Infernal and Fall Out Boy head up the top 40 to challenge Gnarls Barkley for number one, we got a motley crew of new entries, including Snow Patrol on a major glow-up, The Flaming Lips’ chart peak and the return to the charts of Stevie Nicks with one of the most beautiful (and...

“SOS please someone help me. It’s not healthy for me to feel this way” about a pop song. But that’s just how I feel about Rihanna’s SOS, one of the true starmaking tracks of the decade. Which of course means it’s probably going to be beat by a drippy ballad from Shayne Ward off of that X Factor. So the 2000s charts go. Do Rihanna and Shayne Ward have what it takes to knock Gnarls Barkley off the t...

This week on our look at the music that came out this week in 2006, we’re going literally from the sublime to ridiculous, in a chart that takes us from one of the most emotional songs ever written in U2’s One’s to one of the stupidest tracks ever, D4L’s Laffy Taffy. In between, we get Franz Ferdinand singing about Jesus, Morrissey discussing losing his virginity, Michael Jackson terrified by the i...

This week 20 years ago on the pop music charts...the British record buying public goes Craaaaaaaayyyyyyyzzzaaaaaaayyyyyyyy for Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley project while gossip-lovers everywhere wonder about what Mike Skinner and Cheryl Cole might have got involved in. Elsewhere, more nails are put in the landfill indie coffin as The Automatic and Milburn debut and we get two of the st...

This week in 2006...Pink tries feminism and fails miserably. Michael Jackson jumps the shark. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs don’t release a concept album about a cat. The Kooks don’t annuciate properly. Nelly tells us all about his jewel-encrusted teeth, and we get 2000s nostalgic pop music bangers from Embrace, Sean Paul, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and MVP. Featuring the following tracks: Beverley Knight - Piece of M...

This week on the podcast telling the stories of the biggest songs from this week 20 year ago…This is a baffling week on the 2000s charts for me. Why is Kelly Clarkson being beaten by a less good version of herself literally using the same songwriter? How could the pop music industry fumble the singles from Girls Aloud’s best album so badly? Why don’t the British record buying public appreciate Bev...

A NEW ERA IN THE UK TOP 40 CHARTS....but enough about Amelle replacing Mutya in the Sugababes, some long-awaited rule changes came in force which gave more power than ever to downloads. Instantly, there are some winners (Black Eyed Peas), some losers (James Blunt), and a lot of chaos in between. Let me be your guide as I tell you the stories of some of the best songs of 2006. From what will.i.am i...

WHAT TIME IS ITTTTTTTTTTTTT?? It’s time for another episode of the podcast telling the stories of the 40 biggest-selling songs from this week 20 years ago of course! This week in 2006 had the most new entries of any chart the whole year, and it’s an embarrassment of 2000s riches and rubbish including the incredible debut of Hot Chip, the final single by Charlotte Church and the return of Shakira w...

Je suis NOT desolé that I have another episode full of 2000s pop music bangers for your nostalgic enjoyment this week. Madonna is releasing her least favourite single, Corinne Bailey Rae is dragged into a feud with Lily Allen and Kian Westlife is falling out of windows. All in a day’s work for the 2006 charts, in other words. Meanwhile...The Darkness are blowing £1 million on an album, one of my f...

Another week on your favourite 2000s pop music podcast, a mystery: What happened to Liz McClarnon’s solo career? This week 20 years ago the former Atomic Kitten member got a top 5 hit and was never heard from again. We delve into this promising career cut short as well as riding a white horse (that might be heroin) with Goldfrapp, discovering that two of Blazin’ Squad are secretly the most importa...

This week 20 years ago on the pop music charts was a weird time where all the big “new” releases are old. On this episode of the 2000s pop music podcast telling the stories of the 40 biggest selling songs of this week in 2006…Can a very 2006 remix of Leo Sayer’s Thunder in My Heart beat the third re-release of The Source/Candi Staton’s You’ve Got the Love or the physical single of Fall Out Boy’s S...

On this week’s episode of the podcast reliving the stories of the 40 biggest songs from this week in 2006… literally everyone is causing a scene. Ashlee Simpson was getting into (ALLEGED) altercations with Pete Wentz’s ex, Lee Ryan is on a cheese-induced plane ride from hell and 50 Cent is reopening all of his old beefs for money. And that’s without even getting into this being Chris Brown’s debut...

In this episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast telling the story of the 40 biggest selling songs from this week in 2006:his week’s chart in 2006 was one for people who didn’t realise that time had passed them by. ‘80s legends a-ha and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon make another move for chart glory, Starsailor try to exist in a post-Arctic Monkeys world, and Notorious BIG tries for number one...

2006 getting off to a great start, with some big names trying to knock Shayne Ward off of the top spot. Will it be Beyoncé with her worst single, can the Arctic Monkeys manage it with their ode to the shadier sides of Sheffield, will Will (Young) have the will to get All Time Love to the top of the pop music charts, or shall Biggie Smalls get a number one from beyond the grave just a few months af...

“Would you like me to be the cat?”The start of 2006 is a quiet one for the pop music industry before everything starts getting a little weird. But there’s still plenty of nostalgic 2000s pop bangers to enjoy in this our countdown of the 40 biggest-selling songs from this week 20 years ago. Preston off of Ordinary Boys is in the Big Brother house, the Baywatch theme is being ransacked for two diffe...

(Head over to our Patreon now to hear our episodes counting down my full 100 favourite songs of 2005)One year, 52 weeks and 500 songs that made it onto the UK top 40. We have crunched the numbers, made some tough decisions and listened to Verbalicious’ Don’t Play Nice on repeat A LOT to whittle it down to the best 40 songs that made it onto the chart 20 years ago. Expect some songs you’ll love, so...