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Every Friday: the new Irish charts and 'Mr Brightside'-Watch!
Written & posted by @aidancurran17.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm
Every Friday: the new Irish charts and 'Mr Brightside'-Watch!
Written & posted by @aidancurran17.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm
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Kerri Ann – ‘Irreplaceable’
8 November 1998 When even U2, with ‘Sweetest Thing’, are upcycling a clunky B-side from their big-hat ’80s into a jaunty 1998 number one, you know there’s something in the a…
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Kerri Ann up the charts. No. 1 in Ireland this week in November 1998: Irish pop singer Kerri Ann with 'Irreplaceable' irishnumberones.com/2022/08/29/k...
My alter-ego is swanning around Vienna this week, so you can follow there instead for your fix of highbrow culture:
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My alter-ego is swanning around Vienna this week, so you can follow there instead for your fix of highbrow culture:
🗽 In other news from America, it's now five weeks for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' as the US no. 1 www.billboard.com/lists/taylor...
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Fate of Ophelia’ Leads Hot 100 for Fifth Week, Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Returns to Top 10
Taylor Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” holds atop the Hot 100, while Michael Jackson makes history in the top 10 with “Thriller.”
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November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
🗽 In other news from America, it's now five weeks for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' as the US no. 1 www.billboard.com/lists/taylor...
It begins. Back in the Irish charts this week...
November 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It begins. Back in the Irish charts this week...
This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:
🔽 DOWN three places to no. 94
🔽 383 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Almost time for its annual Christmas break! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
🔽 DOWN three places to no. 94
🔽 383 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Almost time for its annual Christmas break! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:
🔽 DOWN three places to no. 94
🔽 383 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Almost time for its annual Christmas break! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
🔽 DOWN three places to no. 94
🔽 383 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Almost time for its annual Christmas break! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
"Ireland's no. 1 single in November 2010 never gets played any more. Why are today's Irish young people such poppy-hating Shinner-licking Brit-bashers?" - my Irish newspaper opinion column today irishnumberones.com/2023/11/08/t...
The X Factor Finalists 2010 – ‘Heroes’
25 November 2010 You Irish people of 2010 must have really loved the British Army, since this is the second charity fundraiser for injured British military personnel that you sent all the way to th…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
"Ireland's no. 1 single in November 2010 never gets played any more. Why are today's Irish young people such poppy-hating Shinner-licking Brit-bashers?" - my Irish newspaper opinion column today irishnumberones.com/2023/11/08/t...
Don't want to miss a thing? Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles of 1998 at Irish Number Ones: irishnumberones.com/by-date/#1998
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Don't want to miss a thing? Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles of 1998 at Irish Number Ones: irishnumberones.com/by-date/#1998
Meanwhile in America, a new entry at a lowly no. 17 on the US charts in November 1998: the track that shapes 21st-century pop irishnumberones.com/2022/09/04/b...
Britney Spears – ‘…Baby One More Time’
21 February 1999 Anyone born after February 1999 may disagree, but this feels like our first present-day number one. In chart pop terms, we’ve been living in a Britney and ‘…Baby …
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November 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Meanwhile in America, a new entry at a lowly no. 17 on the US charts in November 1998: the track that shapes 21st-century pop irishnumberones.com/2022/09/04/b...
Imperfect 10: Ireland's top ten singles this week in November 1998. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Imperfect 10: Ireland's top ten singles this week in November 1998. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
Albums released in November 1998 include Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis's follow-up to Jagged Little Pill: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJl...
Alanis Morissette - Thank U - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
YouTube video by Music
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November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Albums released in November 1998 include Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis's follow-up to Jagged Little Pill: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJl...
Would you believe it? David Lowe of Touch And Go now writes some well-known BBC theme music, including for The One Show and BBC News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSJ...
bbc news start up theme
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November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Would you believe it? David Lowe of Touch And Go now writes some well-known BBC theme music, including for The One Show and BBC News: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSJ...
Bantz! Top ten in Ireland this week in November 1998: Touch And Go with 'Would You...?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-K...
𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗛 & 𝗚𝗢 - 𝙒𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙔𝙤𝙪... 1998
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November 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Bantz! Top ten in Ireland this week in November 1998: Touch And Go with 'Would You...?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-K...
The co-writer of Jennifer Paige's 'Crush' also co-wrote the DuckTales theme song, so there's bad and good in everyone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl5...
DuckTales (1987 Intro) [HD]
YouTube video by DanChaotic1
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November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The co-writer of Jennifer Paige's 'Crush' also co-wrote the DuckTales theme song, so there's bad and good in everyone: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykl5...
The earworms you love to hate: that's the Irish Number Ones guarantee. In the Irish charts this week in November 1998: Jennifer Paige with 'Crush' youtu.be/EIhSnaqou0I?...
JENNIFER PAIGE 'CRUSH' - Original Version (Official Video) HQ
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November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The earworms you love to hate: that's the Irish Number Ones guarantee. In the Irish charts this week in November 1998: Jennifer Paige with 'Crush' youtu.be/EIhSnaqou0I?...
Do you believe in life after Kerri Ann? Poised to replace 'Irreplaceable' at Ireland's no. 1 spot next week in November 1998: the shape of a chart-pop golden age to come irishnumberones.com/2022/08/30/c...
Cher – ‘Believe’
15 November 1998 Another piece of the ’99 and ’00s pop renaissance starts to move into place. Among the seven (7) co-writers on ‘Believe’, along with Cher herself, is Brian …
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November 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Do you believe in life after Kerri Ann? Poised to replace 'Irreplaceable' at Ireland's no. 1 spot next week in November 1998: the shape of a chart-pop golden age to come irishnumberones.com/2022/08/30/c...
Where the streets have no U2 video with elephants. The original 'Sweetest Thing', with '80s-Bono rawk vocals and a breakdown in the mid-section, is yours to compare and contrast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdU...
Sweetest Thing Orginal Version (1987) - U2
YouTube video by One Sunny Day
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November 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Where the streets have no U2 video with elephants. The original 'Sweetest Thing', with '80s-Bono rawk vocals and a breakdown in the mid-section, is yours to compare and contrast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdU...
Replaceable. Knocked off the Irish number one spot by Kerri Ann's 'Irreplaceable' this week in November 1998: other Irish pop act U2 and that video irishnumberones.com/2022/08/28/u...
U2 – ‘Sweetest Thing’
25 October 1998 Our obvious starting point here is to compare the two versions. The original ‘Sweetest Thing’ is the B-side to ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’, and BonoR…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Replaceable. Knocked off the Irish number one spot by Kerri Ann's 'Irreplaceable' this week in November 1998: other Irish pop act U2 and that video irishnumberones.com/2022/08/28/u...
Remember Kerri Ann's other hit single of 1998? Reaching no. 2 in Ireland: 'Do You Love Me Boy?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Najb...
Kerri-Ann - Do You Love Me Boy
YouTube video by Pop Unlimited
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November 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Remember Kerri Ann's other hit single of 1998? Reaching no. 2 in Ireland: 'Do You Love Me Boy?' www.youtube.com/watch?v=Najb...
Kerri Ann, with 'Irreplaceable' this week in November 1998, is one of two people from Tallaght to have an Irish number one single, along with Ciarán Bourke of The Dubliners: irishnumberones.com/2024/01/13/t...
The Dubliners – ‘Seven Drunken Nights’
13 May 1967 Who’s the most prudish and squeamish about sex: RTÉ for banning ‘Seven Drunken Nights’, The Dubliners for not singing the final two verses, or the narrator for going o…
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November 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Kerri Ann, with 'Irreplaceable' this week in November 1998, is one of two people from Tallaght to have an Irish number one single, along with Ciarán Bourke of The Dubliners: irishnumberones.com/2024/01/13/t...
Kerri Ann up the charts. No. 1 in Ireland this week in November 1998: Irish pop singer Kerri Ann with 'Irreplaceable' irishnumberones.com/2022/08/29/k...
Kerri Ann – ‘Irreplaceable’
8 November 1998 When even U2, with ‘Sweetest Thing’, are upcycling a clunky B-side from their big-hat ’80s into a jaunty 1998 number one, you know there’s something in the a…
irishnumberones.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Kerri Ann up the charts. No. 1 in Ireland this week in November 1998: Irish pop singer Kerri Ann with 'Irreplaceable' irishnumberones.com/2022/08/29/k...
For all you 'Mr Brightside'-Watch fans waiting for your favourite bit, the IRMA website hasn't posted this week's Irish top 100 yet, so it may be Monday before I can put you out of my misery:
November 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
For all you 'Mr Brightside'-Watch fans waiting for your favourite bit, the IRMA website hasn't posted this week's Irish top 100 yet, so it may be Monday before I can put you out of my misery:
'Golden' from KPop Demon Hunters, which has spent five weeks in total at no. 2 in Ireland, has now made it ten weeks as the UK no. 1 www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/h...
HUNTR/X make it 10 weeks at the top with Golden
K-Pop Demon Hunters phenomenon HUNTR/X and Golden remain at the summit, earning a tenth week at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
'Golden' from KPop Demon Hunters, which has spent five weeks in total at no. 2 in Ireland, has now made it ten weeks as the UK no. 1 www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/h...
☘️ This week's Irish singles chart! 💿
Five weeks at no. 1 in Ireland now for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70... Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...
Five weeks at no. 1 in Ireland now for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70... Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...
Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Taylor Swift
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
☘️ This week's Irish singles chart! 💿
Five weeks at no. 1 in Ireland now for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70... Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...
Five weeks at no. 1 in Ireland now for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko70... Chart data: www.officialcharts.com/charts/irish...
Shnakey. Kept off the Irish no. 1 spot by The Chainsmokers and Halsey's 'Closer' all through September 2016: 'Let Me Love You' by DJ Snake with the Biebs www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCq...
DJ Snake - Let Me Love You ft. Justin Bieber
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November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Shnakey. Kept off the Irish no. 1 spot by The Chainsmokers and Halsey's 'Closer' all through September 2016: 'Let Me Love You' by DJ Snake with the Biebs www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCq...
The Chainsmokers at no. 1 in Ireland in September 2016 with Halsey on 'Closer, and The Chainsmokers also in the Irish top ten in September 2016 with another US female vocalist, Daya, on 'Don't Let Me Down': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0f...
The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (Official Video) ft. Daya
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November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Chainsmokers at no. 1 in Ireland in September 2016 with Halsey on 'Closer, and The Chainsmokers also in the Irish top ten in September 2016 with another US female vocalist, Daya, on 'Don't Let Me Down': www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io0f...
🌟 NEW POST 🌟
2 September 2016
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - 'Closer': Bland Rover irishnumberones.com/2025/11/06/t...
2 September 2016
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - 'Closer': Bland Rover irishnumberones.com/2025/11/06/t...
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey – ‘Closer’
2 September 2016 It throws a wee bit more trap into the pot, but otherwise ‘Closer’ is yet another mid-’10s sad-boy trop-house number one. It topped the US charts for twelve weeks…
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November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🌟 NEW POST 🌟
2 September 2016
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - 'Closer': Bland Rover irishnumberones.com/2025/11/06/t...
2 September 2016
The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - 'Closer': Bland Rover irishnumberones.com/2025/11/06/t...