Saturday 27 May 2017

Step Back In Time: 24th May 1998

Special Saturday edition of Step Back in Time due to illness. We're looking at this week in 1998 and at this time, pop still had something of a stranglehold on the charts with the Spice Girls, Aqua and others still charting hits.

As usual we start at number 10 where we find Usher with "You Make Me Wanna" which had dropped 3 places from number 7 in the week previous.  "You Make Me Wanna" reached a peak of number 6 in Australia and hit number 2 in the United States Billboard Hot 100.




Neighbours alumni Natalie Imbruglia had a 2nd hit inside the top ten with "Big Mistake" at number 9 however it was a one place drop. "Big Mistake" peaked at number 6 in Australia and number 2 in the United Kingdom.





"Big Mistake" pretty much switched places with the Spice Girls single "Stop" which is at number 8 this week. The Girl Power agents of the 90s peaked at number 5 with "Stop" in Australia and only at number 2 in the United Kingdom, it was the first Spice Girls song to not go number 1 in Britain.





Former number 1 "My Heart will go on" by Celine Dion slid back 4 places to number 7, this song from the film 'Titanic' was a worldwide number 1.




Madonna had a new entry at number 6 with "Ray of Light". Number 6 is where this song would peak in Australia.




The Living End clinbed two places to number 4 with "Prisoner of Society". This song also peaked at number 4




Seminal R 'n' B song "All My Life" by K-Ci and Jojo was also up two places to number 3. It would go on to peak at number 2 and got to number 1 in the USA.




Steps found their way to number 2 with  "5, 6, 7,  8". This song peaked at number 1 however it only peaked at number 14 in the UK




It's arguable that country music doesn't get the attention it deserves but this week in 1998, it was a country song that had hit the top of the ARIA charts in the weeks previous. Shania Twain's "You're Still the One" was ruling the charts.




So that's all for this week. Next week we're going to go back to the week of 3rd June in 1990 and one of the songs to feature is Guru Josh with a song called  "Infinity (1990's.




Time for the Guru)" but we've also got the ARIA top ten (like that's even interesting this week) and New Music Friday Review (now that is interesting compared to the ARIA top ten)

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