The 2000s Chart Show

The NEW HOME of the podcast where every week we're reliving the best and worst of 2000s pop music one UK top 40 at a time the2000schartshow.substack.com

The 2000s Chart Show is a music podcast hosted by Samuel Spencer, with 55 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Samuel Spencer hosts The 2000s Chart Show, a music show with 55 episodes published.

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  Nelly Furtado's Maneater and the Worst World Cup Songs You've Ever Heard 4 - 10 June 2006)

  Jun 10, 20261h 4mS0

  <p>The UK singles charts giveth and they taketh away. So this week 20 years ago, they gave us one of the best song of the 2006, from one of the biggest and best comebacks in pop music history...but they also gave us football-themed rewriting of Tony Christie’s Amarillo. I’d say it’s a game of two halves, but there’s quote enough football talk in this episode already.</p><p>It’s another ep of The 2000s Chart Show, the pop music history podcast where every episode we count down the 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago.</p><p...

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  Pink, a Robbie Williams Flop and Keane Getting Emo (28 May - 3 June 2006)

  Jun 3, 20261h 7mS0

  <p>It’s another week in 2006, and Robbie Williams is casually bankrupting EMI, Pink is releasing her last good ballad and Matt from Busted is having a go at a solo track after both Charlie and James’ careers are all but over.Elsewhere in the pop charts...Brittany Murphy launches a pop career tragically cut short, Jack Johnson is calming things down a bit, and Keane are getting through a lot of rock and roll shenanigans for such a mild-mannered band, but the biggest shocker of all is how good their song is. And while one hugely successful band from 2003 cont...

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  Sandi Thom....Industry Plant? (feat. Donny Tourette, The Feeling and Primal Scream) (21-27 May 2006)

  May 27, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Do you wish you were a punk rocker (with flowers in your hair)? Then do we have an episode for you! Sandi Thom seemed ready to change the music industry forever with her livestreamed gigs...but was the story a little too good to be true?</p><p>We’ll find out in the latest episode of the 2000s pop music history podcast where every episode we count down the 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago.</p><p>Why did Primal Scream fall asleep in their dinners at a major music industry dinner? Can The Ordinary Boys ge...

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  Eurovision 2006, Pet Shop Boys, and the sinking ship of British indie (14-20 May 2006)

  May 20, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Has it been a long time since you had a teenage life? Then you’ll probably remember Eurovision 2006, when Daz Sampson’s crap rap was our entry.It flopped on the Athens stage, but how well did it do on the charts? Can it defeat the best Pet Shop Boys single in a decade, the return of Christina Milian, Busta Rhymes sampling Daft Punk and Orson’s follow-up to No Tomorrow? Find out as we count down the 40 biggest selling songs from this week 20 years ago and tell the stories of some of the biggest pop music of the 2000s.</p>...

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  LL Cool J, Jennifer Lopez and a sassy indie vs rock feud (7-13 May 2006)

  May 13, 20261h 8mS0

  <p>Is Crazy by Gnarls Barkley about to match the record for longest number one we’ve covered on this show, or can Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beatfreakz, Feeder, Panic at the Disco, Goldfrapp or the dream team of LL Cool J and Jennifer Lopez stop them?</p><p>Find out in the latest episode of the music history and commentary podcast where every episode we’re telling the stories of the 40 biggest selling songs of this week 20 years ago.</p><p>Featuring the following tracks: The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It</p><p>Beatfreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me</p>...

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