![]() Their previous singles had made the Top 40 four times, but this latest hit set a trend for the Welsh rockers – they went on to have ten more Top 10s, including a Number 1 in 2005: Dakota. We may well come back to them later…Īt Number 3, Stereophonics celebrated their first Top 10, and indeed Top 3 hit, with The Bartender And The Thief. While Lisa, ‘H’, Lee, Faye and Claire were probably disappointed to miss out on matching the Bee Gees’ record, they had reason to cheer when, 1 after bouncing up and down the Top 10 for another seven weeks, it finally hit Number 1 in January 1999. Released as a double-A side (ask your mum) with Heartbeat, Tragedy was a faithful, yet totally nineties, cover of the Bee Gees Number 1 from 1979. Steps were famous – some might say notorious – for their dance routines, and Tragedy was the most memorable of them all. If you’re going to be held off the top spot by somebody, it might as well be Cher, and Steps were the third act to be pipped at the post by Believe. ![]() Watch Cher’s triumphant classic before we count down the rest of the retro Top 5 this week in 1998. It has gone on to shift over 1.7 million copies and is the biggest selling single by a female solo artist in the UK ever. ![]() Believe would sell an incredible 1 million copies by the end of the year and was the best selling single of 1998. ![]() Cher refused to budge from Number 1 for an astonishing SEVEN weeks. Thanks to a deadly combination of a word-famous singing megastar, a dance beat and some serious auto-tune effects, a hit was born.īelieve stormed straight into the top of the Official Singles Chart in October 1998 and this week back in ’98 it was halfway through its impressive run. Cher was back! Back! BACK! And she meant business. And so did the record-buying public (you, basically). Ladies and gentlemen, do you Believe in life after love? Cher did. Brian and his crack team of songwriting boffins – who would go on to work with a plethora of popstars including Girls Aloud and The Saturdays – worked away to create an instant classic, but few could have foreseen just how big the track was going to be. “The Muffin Man” riff on “Believe” suggests Lambert is poking fun at himself as much as a singer he clearly idolizes.So with that in mind, the pop legend teamed up with Brian Higgins, who’d just enjoyed success with the might Dannii Minogue and her Number 4 hit from 1997, All I Wanna Do. In a video capturing the performance, the audience’s reactions include gasps at Lambert’s powerful vocals, and the camera pans to Cher visibly wiping away tears at a key moment in the song. In 2018, Lambert sang a version of “Believe” at the 41st annual Kennedy Center Honors, where Cher was one of the honorees. ![]() “Cher would be very proud.”Ĭher seemed very proud of Lambert for a previous, more somber rendition of one of the most famous songs from her repertoire. “How do you do that? How do you make that good?” Fallon asks. Lambert quickly eases into the gig, replacing the iconic lyrics “Do you believe in life after love?” with “Do you know the muffin man?” while his partner Chlӧe Bailey signals her support by dancing along.Īfter finishing his performance, Lambert throws his hair back in true Cher fashion as Fallon applauds the spot-on impersonation. ‘SNL': Molly Kearney Condemns Anti-Trans Legislation: ‘We Are Making Trans Kids Grow Up Too Fast’ (Video) ![]()
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