![]() ![]() Bryan Adams’ big credits song for the crummy yet phenomenally successful Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was the #1 song in the United Kingdom for 16 consecutive weeks, beginning its reign of terror on 13 July and finally being slain on 2 November (by U2’s “The Fly”). I am, of course, referring to “ (Everything I Do) I Do It for You.” This song was absolutely inescapable across the entire back-half of 1991 in a way that makes Drake saturation today look like a minor blip on the radar. It was before my time, but my parents remember it vividly and with great disdain, including my mother who is otherwise a fan of the artist when enough gin is flushed down her, and even in today’s nonsensical streaming-weighted charts with #1 singles that remain static for months at a time its feat stands alone. Beginning a quarter century back from this column’s inception (March 2019) up until whenever the Present Day comes about.Ġ01] Bryan Adams, Sting & Rod Stewart – All for Love (From The Three Musketeers Soundtrack)Ī great unfortunate albatross dangles around the neck of UK chart history. Inspired by Tom Ewing’s “ Popular” (which traces the history of UK #1 singles) and Tom Breihan’s “ The Number Ones” (which does the same for US #1s), “We’re #2!” looks at the history of those songs which almost but not-quite managed to reach the summit of the UK Singles Chart.
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