And the 1000th number one is... (22 January 2005)
Episode description
A huge week for the UK top 40 in 2005, as the 1000th number one single is announced. Everyone from Madonna to Mr. Blobby have reached that top spot, and now one song is going to get the chart's biggest milestone yet. But which one of the following 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago will it go to:
Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It’s Christmas
Client - Pornography
Dana Rayne - Object of My Desire
Darius - Live Twice
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
Elvis Presley - One Night/I Got Stung
Erasure - Breathe
Eric Prydz - Call On Me
Girls Aloud - I’ll Stand By You
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For
Ice Cube feat. Mack 10 and Ms Toi - You Can Do it
Interpol - Evil
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Jamie Scott - Searching
Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Numb/Encore
Kasabian - Cutt Off
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Kings of Leon - Four Kicks
Kylie Minogue - I Believe in You
Lemar - If There’s Any Justice
Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Forward)
Longview - Coming Down/When You Sleep
Manic Street Preachers - Empty Souls
The Music - Breakin’
Narcotic Thrust - When the Dawn Breaks
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Nelly and Christina Aguilera - Tilt Ya Head Back
Pink Grease - Strip
Pop! - Serious
Ronan Keating and Yusuf - Father and Son
Roni Size feat. Beverley Knight - No More
Rooster - Staring at the Sun
Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous
Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell - Drop It Like It’s Hot
Soul Central feat. Kathy Brown - Strings of Life (Stronger on My Own)
Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds
Thirteen Senses - Thru the Glass
Uniting Nations - Out of Touch
Usher - Confessions Part II/My Boo
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