We're in an era where pretty much every number 40 seems to come from a rapper. This one is no exception. Headie One made his Top 40 debut at the start of 2019 with fellow UK rapper Dave with "18Hunna".
The majority of his Top 40 hits to date have been collaborations. This was his 13th Top 40 hit but only his 2nd on his own. Generally speaking his chart positions have depended on the profile of who he's collaborated with.
Here's my weekly look at the Top 30 from 26 years ago. The plan is for these posts to go out at 17:30 on a Sunday.
Here is the Top 40 in full.
I've decided against repetition from previous weeks moving forward so will only feature the records I'm reviewing for the first time. I also won't repeat the reviews from the Top 20 in 1999 Reviewed posts.
Once again my opinions are inevitably going to differ from other people, but I'm not trying to convince anyone something is good or rubbish, I'm simply giving my opinion.
So this is the records new to the top 30 from this week in 1999 with my verdict on each record:
If we give the records which were good 1 point each and those which were OK half a point, the final score is 8.5/30, or 28%. It's not likely to get much better.
These were the new entries in the Dutch Top 40 that never made the UK Top 40:
To recap, Double Vision were a Spanish Eurodance act who had a big hit in Holland in 1995 with their debut "Knockin". This was the not so successful follow up which was their 2nd and final Top 40 hit in Holland. It's nowhere near as catchy.
Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - This Christmas
Although Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo were in their prime chart wise their attempt and making a Christmas record with vocals from a Tom Jones soundalike didn't do so well only making number 19 making it their lowest charting Dutch Top 40 hit of the 90s. It also never made it's way into DJ sets at the raves here to my knowledge and I understand why. I never heard this myself until YouTube became thing, but despite that it still gives me nostalgia for 1995 and I put it only Christmas party playlists.
Juice Wrld was a rapper who's had a more successful chart career since he died than when he was alive. He died in December 2019 just after turning 21. At this point he had 3 Top 40 hits to his name that reached 10, 39 and 33 respectively. Then a month after his death he topped the charts in collaboration with Eminem with "Godzilla".
This was his 10th posthumous Top 40 hit. He had finished recording it by August 2019 but didn't get released until 3 years later.
Whether we'll see future hits from Juice Wrld remains to be seen. Given his young age when he died there's only going to be so much of his work that exists that the general public are yet to hear.
Lil Nas X topped the charts with his Top 40 debut "Old Town Road" in 2019. Depending on what criteria you want to use it could be said that was the biggest Billy Ray Cyrus hit as he featured on it, though not credited.
This was Top 40 hit number 7 for Lil Nas X and was the theme to the 2022 League of Legends World Championship. What's that? I hear you ask. It's an esports tournament, so basically a video game competition. Quite how popular esports are I don't know, but it didn't really seem to help this record for chart success.
Here's my weekly look at the Top 30 from 26 years ago. The plan is for these posts to go out at 17:30 on a Sunday.
Here is the Top 40 in full.
I've decided against repetition from previous weeks moving forward so will only feature the records I'm reviewing for the first time. I also won't repeat the reviews from the Top 20 in 1999 Reviewed posts.
Once again my opinions are inevitably going to differ from other people, but I'm not trying to convince anyone something is good or rubbish, I'm simply giving my opinion.
So this is the records new to the top 30 from this week in 1999 with my verdict on each record:
If we give the records which were good 1 point each and those which were OK half a point, the final score is 10/30, or 33%. Not long to go now.
