Italian dance group Eiffel 65 scored the year's second best-selling track with three-week Number 1 Blue (956k), German DJ ATB ranks fifth with summer smash 9pm (Til I Come) (791k), French musician Mr Oizo is at 9 with Flat Beat (678k) (a Number 1 thanks to its use in a Levi's advert), and Dutch outfit Alice Deejay land just outside the Top 10 at 12 with Better Off Alone.Īnother act waving the flag four Europop that year was Vengaboys, who claim three entries in the end-of-year Top 40: Number 1s Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! (15) and We're Going To Ibiza! (38), while Top 3 smash We Like To Party! (The Vengabus) places at 29. View Britney's Official UK Chart history in full here.ġ999 also saw the rise of Europop dominating the airwaves and charts. MORE: Official Top 40 biggest songs of 2021 so farīritney's follow-up single Sometimes - also released that year - wasn't quite the runaway hit of its predecessor, peaking at Number 3, but still places at 34 on the end-of-year Top 40.
The Max Martin-produced track kick-started a new ultra-slick style of pop from the US that would also earn Number 1 success in the UK for Backstreet Boys (May chart-topper I Want It That Way ranks 35th), and later *NSync and Pink. Aided by a deliciously cheeky music video, the track stormed in at Number 1 in February, scoring 463,722 sales in its opening week, and finished the year on 1.45 million sales to be the UK's best-selling single of 1999. The former child star of Disney TV show The Mickey Mouse Club, Britney soon grew up in front of our very eyes, starting out with the undeniable classic. 1999 saw the arrival of a popstar for who global domination would be instant: Britney Spears.
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