August 2000 was the last time we had a big battle for number one that was widely talked about. This was between Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Victoria Beckham despite neither being the lead artist on their respective records.
The winner of the battle was Sophie Ellis-Bextor who provided vocals for "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller. It started life as a pretty good instrumental record but the addition of the vocals completely ruins it and therefore it gets no points.
Victoria Beckham became the final Spice Girl to have a hit outside of the Spice Girls by providing vocals alongside Dane Bowers on "Out Of Your Mind" by True Steppers. UK garage had got so big so quickly and now the pop singers were jumping on the bandwagon and it was predictably rubbish.
The rest of the UK garage records this month get full marks. This includes the best record this month which is "Battle" by Wookie featuing Lain. Another one of the decent garage record this month is "Call It Fate" by Richie Dan.
I mentioned in September the origins of me getting into R&B via garage. Maybe that was a bit premature because we have another example this month. "7 Days" by Craig David was his first non-garage record. However the first version of this I heard was a garage version on the tapes, but when I heard this R&B version I thought it was decent too.
Another decent R&B record this month was the only Top 40 hit for Ruff Endz with "No More". There weren't any rap new entries this month.
Some decent trance record this month including the excellent "Time To Burn" by Storm, an alias of Jam & Spoon who were early pioneers of trance in the early 90s.
Red Hot Chili Peppers had a decent record in "Californication" and I think I owned the album of the same name by this point. We also had the Top 40 debut from indie band JJ72 with "Oxygen" which is a decent effort.
Onto the worst record and this month it comes from Mandy Moore with "I Wanna Be With You". A very cringeworthy record.
Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):
Here's a look at the chart:
We have the best August of the 21st century.
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