| W/E |
Artist |
Song |
Weeks at No.1 |
Comments |
25th Jan |
Wet Wet Wet |
Goodnight Girl |
4 |
Their 2nd UK No 1 saw them
moving away from their teeny-bopper image to
a broader, older audience with this love ballad. |
22nd Feb |
Shakespears Sister |
Stay |
8 |
Siobhan Fahey (former Bananarama
vocalist) and Marcella Detroit had a successful
partnership for a couple of years. This
was their only No 1. |
18th Apr |
Right Said Fred |
Deeply Dippy |
3 |
Led by former male model and
body builder, Richard Fairbrass. They enjoyed
4 Top 10s and much popularity for a couple of
years. This
was their only No 1. |
9th May |
KWS |
Please Don't Go / Game Boy |
5 |
Short-lived UK band with a
cover of KC & The Sunshine Band's No 3 from
1979. |
13th Jun |
Erasure |
Abba-esque EP |
5 |
Vince Clark & Andy Bell
had 15 Top 10 hits 1986 to 1994. Four covers
of Abba hits were on this EP - Vince and Andy
dressed up as the two Abba girls for the videos. |
18th Jul |
Jimmy Nail |
Ain't No Doubt |
3 |
Only UK No 1 for this
TV actor from Newcastle who turned to singing
for short periods. He
later combined the two careers in the tv series "Crocodile
Shoes". |
8th Aug |
Snap |
|
6 |
Unusually for dance music
production teams, a second chart topper was achieved. They
scored 9 Top 10 hits 1990 to 1994. This was their
2nd and final UK No 1. |
19th Sep |
Shamen |
Ebeneezer Goode |
4 |
Named after South American
Indian tribesmen, they achieved some notoriety
with this thinly-disguised drugs promotion song.
This was their only No 1. |
17th Oct |
Tasmin Archer |
Sleeping Satellite |
2 |
The British girl co-wrote
the song, but had no more Top 20 hits. This was
her only No 1. |
31st Oct |
Boyz II Men |
End Of The Road |
3 |
Vocal harmony quartet from
Philadelphia, and Motown's biggest act of the
1990s, with 5 US No 1s. However, this was their
only UK No 1. |
21st Nov |
Charles & Eddie |
Would I Lie To You |
2 |
Legend has it that this pair met on a New York
subway train and formed their act there and then! Their
debut No 1 did not lead them to a lasting career. |
5th
Dec |
Whitney Houston |
I Will Always Love You |
10 |
A 4th and final UK No 1 for Whitney with this
song, from her hit film "The
Bodyguard",
co-staring Kevin Costner. The 10 weeks at
the top is the longest ever for a female artist. |
