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The Most Bizarre UK No. 1s of the 1990s

Britain’s charts in the ’90s weren’t just Nothing Compares 2U and Wannabe—they also threw up some gloriously oddball No. 1s. This deep-dive video rounds up everything from a TV presenter’s Phantom of the Opera cameo to Iron Maiden’s surprisingly chart-topping Bring Your Daughter… To the Slaughter, via Gregorian chant-style dance tunes and Courtney Love-adjacent alt-rock.

Chapters cover wild genre mash-ups like gabber and house, novelty hits from Mr Blobby and Chef’s “Chocolate Salty Balls”, the Teletubbies takeover, Tori Amos’s club remix, and Cliff Richard’s prayer single. It’s fact-checked, packed with soundtrack credits, social links, Patreon info and a hefty bibliography for the true pop-obsessed.

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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Music YouTube