![]() ![]() If you’ve ever watched a 90s Disney movie, you already know exactly what I’m talking about. Whilst the song may not have been the first blockbuster end credits power ballad designed to cross over onto Pop Radio, its monster world-conquering success – also topping the Billboard Hot 100 for seven straight weeks and being the #1 song in America for the entire year – definitely codified the template for them going forward. (Were we to have covered “I’m Too Sexy,” it would have been a 2.) To this day, only two songs have come close to equalling that feat, Wet Wet Wet’s “Love is All Around” in the Summer of 94 (which we’ll cover very soon) and Drake’s “One Dance” in the Summer of 2016, both reaching 15 weeks before being dethroned.īut “(Everything I Do)”’s crimes weren’t just limited to the Autumn of 91 and a record that seemingly may never be toppled. Across that rule: it held off “Now That We’ve Found Love” by Heavy D & The Boyz, “Let’s Talk About Sex” by Salt-N-Pepa, “Get Ready for This” by 2Unlimited, and teamed up with Right Said Fred in the #2 slot to hold the pinnacles of the chart hostage for six straight weeks. ![]() Bryan Adams’ big credits song for the crummy yet phenomenally successful Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was the #1 song in the United Kingdom for 16 consecutive weeks, beginning its reign of terror on 13 July and finally being slain on 2 November (by U2’s “The Fly”). I am, of course, referring to “ (Everything I Do) I Do It for You.” This song was absolutely inescapable across the entire back-half of 1991 in a way that makes Drake saturation today look like a minor blip on the radar. It was before my time, but my parents remember it vividly and with great disdain, including my mother who is otherwise a fan of the artist when enough gin is flushed down her, and even in today’s nonsensical streaming-weighted charts with #1 singles that remain static for months at a time its feat stands alone. Beginning a quarter century back from this column’s inception (March 2019) up until whenever the Present Day comes about.Ġ01] Bryan Adams, Sting & Rod Stewart – All for Love (From The Three Musketeers Soundtrack)Ī great unfortunate albatross dangles around the neck of UK chart history. ![]() Inspired by Tom Ewing’s “ Popular” (which traces the history of UK #1 singles) and Tom Breihan’s “ The Number Ones” (which does the same for US #1s), “We’re #2!” looks at the history of those songs which almost but not-quite managed to reach the summit of the UK Singles Chart. ![]()
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