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		Agnetha Fältskog, ABBA's youngest member, had a #1 record in Sweden when she was only 7 and was noted by the critics and songwriters as a talented composer, most of her songs being in the schlager style.
		The release of their second album ABBA and their single "SOS" consolidated ABBA's presence in the UK, where the single was a Top 10 hit and the album reached #13, and where they were no longer regarded as a Eurovision one-hit wonder.
		Their stand-alone single Summer Night City, their last Swedish number one, stopped just short of topping the UK charts but set the stage for ABBA's foray into disco with the album Voulez-Vous, which was released in April 1979.
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	List of number-one singles (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		This is a list of the number one hits in the UK Singles Chart, from its inception in 1952 to the present.
		Note: this list is different from that shown in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, which uses the Record Retailer chart from 1960 onwards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Number_1_singles_(UK) (176 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 5ive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		They disbanded on 27 September, 2001 selling close to 20 million records, and having 11 top ten UK singles and 4 top ten albums.
		In 1997, an advertisement was placed in the UK performing arts newspaper The Stage, asking for young male singers/dancers to audition for a boy band-style group with "attitude and edge".
		In August 1999, the first single of their second album, the catchy dance tune "If Ya Gettin' Down" was released and became a major hit worldwide but yet again failed top go to #1 in their home country, only to be stopped by Ricky Martin.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/5ive (1334 words)

	Category:Record charts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1980s
		List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 1990s
		List of Number 1 singles in Australia during the 2000s
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	Elvis Presley - The King Of Rock And Roll
		The resulting single, backed with Elvis' hopped-up version of the country song "Blue Moon Of Kentucky", was a huge local hit in Memphis after WHBQ aired it two days later, and regular touring started to expand his fame beyond Tennessee.
		The remix hit Number 1 in over 20 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia (it was also his first top 10 hit in the UK for nearly 22 years, and his first #1 there for nearly 25 years).
		The second of these re-releases, "Jailhouse Rock", was the number one in the first chart of 2005, and "One Night/I Got Stung", the third re-release in the series, replaced it on the January 16 chart (and thus becoming the 1000th UK number one).
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	ABBA information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		By this time ABBA were widely popular in the UK, most of Western Europe and Australia (who in a way almost "adopted" ABBA as their own) but still had only moderate recognition and airplay in the US, and "Dancing Queen" remains the only No. 1 ABBA ever achieved there.
		This album also carried the well-known "Thank You for the Music" that later was released in the UK as a single (1983) and had been a B-side of "Eagle" in territories where that song was released as a single.
		Their standalone single "Summer Night City", their last Swedish number one, stopped just short of topping the UK charts but set the stage for ABBA's foray into disco with the album Voulez-Vous, which was released in Spring 1979.
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	World of Chig...now 40, and off to Athens on Friday for Eurovision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Jam were on the crest of a wave in 1980, and this #1 provoked a re-release of all their other singles, six of which re-entered the charts all at once a month later.
		He has put all 935 number one singles into a handy Excel spreadsheet, which you can download in a millisecond and peruse at your leisure, as you try to narrow them down to your personal top ten.
		The number one Number One will be revealed on Thursday 14 November, which is the 50th anniversary of the publication date of the first singles chart.
	chig.blogspot.com /2002_09_01_chig_archive.html (9871 words)

	Black Box (band) Information
		By early 1990 they had engaged Martha Wash to perform vocals on a number of tracks which, Ms Wash was apparently told, were ostensibly for club consumption and weren't for mass-release.
		Shortly after their first single "Ride On Time" had become a hit around the world, rumours began to surface that the girl in the video might not have been the vocalist.
		In America, they are best remembered for their early '90s singles "Everybody, Everybody" and "Strike It Up", their biggest hit in the United States, where both their hits are still heard on rhythmic radio and in clubs on a fairly regular basis.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Black_Box_(band) (548 words)

	Spice Girls at AllExperts
		The song proved to be a global hit - hitting number 1 in 31 countries and became not only the biggest selling single by an all female group, but also the biggest selling dÃ©but single of all time.
		Further singles released from the album included "Too Much", "Stop" and "Viva Forever" â" with "Stop" being the only track not to hit number 1 in Britain (the track remains their only single not to go to number 1 in the UK).
		In UK, the album was released the same week as Westlife's Coast To Coast album and the chart battle was widely reported by the media.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sp/spice_girls.htm (3709 words)

	Spice Girls Summary
		Further singles released from the album included "Too Much", "Stop" and "Viva Forever" – with "Stop" being the only track not to hit #1 in Britain (the track remains their only single not to go to #1 in the UK).
		The video for the single was made before Geri's departure and features the girls in animated form – a decision made because there was no time to produce a video due to the heavy world tour schedule.
		Total of nine number one singles in the UK - tied with ABBA behind The Shadows (twelve), Madonna (twelve), Westlife (thirteen), Cliff Richard (fourteen), The Beatles (seventeen) and Elvis Presley (twenty-one).
	www.bookrags.com /Spice_Girls (4200 words)

	Celine Dion Tickets Las Vegas Ticket - Cheap Celine Dion Tickets Broker
		The album debuted at number one across 17 countries all over the world and it sold over 600,000 copies in the United States in its first week, being the highest selling album of the year in the first week.
		The first single from this album, "Tout l'or des hommes", established the record for becoming the highest charting Francophone single on the National (English) CHR Audience chart in the BDS era.
		Céline Dion performed the hit single of the film Titanic, the second best-selling CD of the 1990s, and her albums Falling into You and Let’s Talk About Love are both in the third position, having sold more than 30 million copies each.
	www.ticketspecialists.com /lasvegas/celine_dion_tickets.htm (2272 words)

	1000 Number Ones
		On 16th January 2005, Elvis Presley achieved the one-thousandth Number One since the inception of the UK singles chart in 1952.
		You can find out what was at number 1 in the singles chart (and the sheet music chart before it) in our '60 years of number ones' date engine Click here to see it.
		Blobby went to number one with "Mr Blobby" in 1993 it was the first time in 41 years of chart history that an eponymously title song achieved this feat.
	everyhit.com /1000numberones (4016 words)

	UKMIX - Forums - View topic - Australian #1 singles 1994-2004, incl. chart runs, facts....
		Strangely, this was her only #1 single in Australia, her previous best being her endless love duet with Luther Vandross which #2 in 1994 and the Christmas song ‘All I want for Christmas is you’ which peaked at #2 in December 1994.
		The single was helped during its chart run with the repackaging of ‘Because you loved me’ with the Power of the dream song, which had been performed at the opening games of the Atlanta Olympics.
		Aqua also joined the short list of having their first 2 singles reach the top (last act to do that was Ace Of Base in 1994) and the few acts to have 2 consecutive chart toppers in a year (Savage Garden had achieved this in early 1997).
	www.ukmix.org /forums/viewtopic.php?topic=16973&forum=5 (9435 words)

	The Cure Pictures, Biography, Profile, Facts, Discography, Filmography, more.
		The single was enough of an underground success that they were signed to Fiction Records, who reissued "Killing An Arab" in 1979.
		Their next single, "Boys Don't Cry", was bigger yet and became The Cure's signature song during their early period.
		In 1986 The Cure released Standing On A Beach: The Singles, which was their first album to go gold.
	numberonestars.com /musiclegends/thecure.htm (537 words)

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		During the 1980s and 1990s, the number of for-profit private prisons increased across America, but contrary to initial optimistic expectations, private prisons have encountered an increasing number of dilemmas as well as much resistance to their operation.
		The authors point to official reports in both Australia and the UK, which chronicle long lists of abuse and neglect of the detainees, some of it racially motivated, by staff who are paid poorly, overworked and given little training.
		She documents a list of concerns: increased rates of self-harm, reduced visitations, unsafe surroundings for children, poor health treatment, lack of education programs and poor location, leaving many women far from home and unable to see maintain contact with their families.
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		An ad in a UK theatre magazine, The Stage, was posted 1997, asking for young male singers/dancers to audition for a boy band-style group, but one that had "attitude and edge".
		In November of 1997, the band released their first single in the UK; "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)".
		There you will find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article 5ive.
	www.mauspfeil.net /5ive.html (434 words)

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		Their first single, "Tears Are Not Enough", made the UK Top 20 in 1981.
		Heavy on rhyming couplets and tales of unrequited love, the album was a big hit, reaching number one in the UK album charts.
		The group then moved to the EMI label, where they recorded the LP Abracadabra, a tightly produced fusion of early 1990s techno sounds and 1970s dance grooves which was met with muted critical approval and appreciation from the band's fan base.
	www.youtube.com /view_play_list?p=66358300CBEF8BD5 (978 words)

	Amazon.com: Their Law - The Singles 1990 - 2005: Music: The Prodigy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Limited edition 2 CD set containing all the hit singles including the bonus track 'Out Of Space' (Audio Bully's Remix), Their Law showcases the career to date of The Prodigy, via the tracks that changed the face of British music.
		Since their formation in 1990, The Prodigy have released four albums, numerous singles, been #1 in 27 countries simultaneously with their incomparable Fat Of The Land masterpiece, toured the world with their incendiary live show, made groundbreaking videos, shaken things up musically and socially and been unafraid to court controversy.
		Prodigy were one of the best, most exciting and innovative rave acts of the early 1990s, and later went on to change their sound to a harder-hitting one in the mid-90s; but the editorial review description that this set contains 'all the hit singles'...
	www.amazon.com /Their-Law-Singles-1990-2005/dp/B000A0ULY0 (1559 words)

	Lavamus.com biography :: ABBA mp3 download
		[1] As a result he encouraged Björn and Benny to write a song for the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest and it was performed by Lena Anderson.
		UK success was further solidified with "Mamma Mia" reaching the UK No. 1 spot in January 1976 and knocking Queen's biggest hit Bohemian Rhapsody from the top.
		Their standalone single "Summer Night City", their last Swedish number one, stopped just short of topping the UK charts but set the stage for ABBA's foray into disco with the album Voulez-Vous, which was released in April 1979.
	lavamus.com /Biography/557/ABBA (8157 words)

	Mariah Carey Biography
		With 61 cumulative weeks at #1, she is also the artist with the second-most weeks spent at #1, beating the Beatles by two weeks and falling only behind Elvis Presley (80 weeks).
		The single went on to achieve platinum (1,000,000 copies sold) status and was one of the last singles to do so in America, once the Napster craze took off in 2000 and decimated the American singles industry.
		None of the three singles really took off with radio though fans continued to buy her singles in the thousands, leading to the conclusion that Carey had lost her "radio magic" after a decade of one radio hit after another.
	www.netkushi.com /articles/mariah-carey.php (2523 words)

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		Israeli qualifier defeats No. 1 at U.S. Open With top-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne on the other side of the net, serving for the match, Tzipi Obziler pulled a stunner at the U.S. Open on Thursday.
		Business 2.0 compiled the list of 12 companies to watch from assessments by venture capitalists of startups that will be on everyone's lips years from now.
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	Amazon.com: Spice: Music: Spice Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The only mistake they made at this point in their career was not releasing the slinky R&B track "Naked" as a single; and if that's because the video plot automatically suggests itself as too obvious, it's not as if that curtailed any other facet of their career.
		Well, in the UK, this album harkened back to the day when more than four singles were spawned from one album.
		Indeed, all six of their singles here shot to #1 on the UK charts.
	www.amazon.com /Spice-Girls/dp/B000000WCA (2848 words)

	The Corrs at AllExperts
		The Corrs are a multi-platinum folk rock band from Ireland, consisting of three sisters and one brother from the Corr family; Sharon, Caroline, Andrea and Jim Corr.
		In January of 2006, the Irish Singles Chart released statments claiming that the band had sold closer to 60 million albums worldwide.
		In 2005 the band returned with Home, a traditional Irish album celebrating their roots, many of the songs coming from their late mother's songbook including two songs in the Irish language.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_corrs.htm (1056 words)

	I Love 1994 - Article - Stylus Magazine
		John Rothery: The apathy in the UK due to England spectacularly failing to qualify was matched only by the apathy of the host country.
		The next 7 seasons or so strayed as far away from any sort of social consciousness as possible to focus on the attractiveness of the cast members, all played to a background of techno and emo (for the tender moments) in MTV’s lame attempt to be hip.
		Ian Mathers: When I was a kid I hated their singles because they were glossy pop, now that I’m not quite so stupid I don’t hate them, I just feel vast amounts of apathy towards them.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1122 (19048 words)

	5ive Did You Mean 5ive
		Bob and Chris Hebert, the two men who had earlier created the Spice Girls, thought the time was right for a male group.
		They experienced marginal success around the world, racking up three number-one singles in the UK and selling over 7 million albums worldwide, including 1 million in the United States.
		Although they did attempt to crack the US market, 5ive did not achieve this and are only somewhat dimly remembered for their first (and last) top 10 hit, "When The Lights Go Out".
	www.did-you-mean.com /5ive.html (416 words)

	Pitchfork Feature: The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s
		You could stop this song after four seconds and still hear why the Who's first single launched their career back in 1965, why they continued to open shows with it decades later, and why it remains a favorite more than 40 years on.
		Those syncopated bursts of contained explosion constitute one of the most perfect power-pop riffs ever strummed, and the only way to improve on it is to add Keith Moon's hyperactive drumming to fill in the charged silences between the chords.
		well, it would have probably still made the list, but the snake attached to that head is a great song as well as a persuasive argument against originality in rock.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/feature/37901/The_200_Greatest_Songs_of_the_1960s/page_2 (2112 words)

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		Not having been around this list for long, I'm interested to know what the deal is on two items I found in England.
		Subject: (kw) Klang DJ 101/104 I'm replying to Blake's e-mail, but I thought others might be interested: In late spring 1997 Kraftwerk released a box set to coincide with their imminent appearance at the Tribal Gathering festival.
		Each sleeve has separate Klang DJ numbers, 101=96104, and these 12'ers were also issued separately to the boxed package, although I have only ever come across them in their picture sleeves, not in plain ones.
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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Angels 'should have topped chart'
		The Teletubbies song was in third place in the worst number ones of all time list, with Mr Blobby's self-titled 1993 hit in second place.
		Astounding evidence that the number one title merely shows the ability to force mass single sales within the space of a week.
		Happy Birthday by Altered Images, although it was number 1 in the NME Charts.
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