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Little Mix – ‘Shout Out To My Ex’
28 October 2016 Going by the tepid take-up for their debut solo releases in 2024-25, next on the Little Mix agenda may well be the perfunctory reunion and greatest hits tour. That’s a pity. O…
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28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
In Canada, Christmas is already in full swing, going by this week's Canadian top ten: www.billboard.com/charts/canad...
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In Canada, Christmas is already in full swing, going by this week's Canadian top ten: www.billboard.com/charts/canad...
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28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
Little Mix – ‘Shout Out To My Ex’
28 October 2016 Going by the tepid take-up for their debut solo releases in 2024-25, next on the Little Mix agenda may well be the perfunctory reunion and greatest hits tour. That’s a pity. O…
irishnumberones.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🌟 NEW POST 🌟
28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
28 October 2016
Little Mix - 'Shout Out To My Ex': Down the dumper! irishnumberones.com/2025/11/25/l...
🗽 In other news from America, it's now seven 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 Seventh Week, Mariah Carey Jingles Back to Top 10
Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" adds a seventh week atop the Hot 100, and Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" returns to the top 10.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🗽 In other news from America, it's now seven weeks for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' as the US no. 1 www.billboard.com/lists/taylor...
RIP Jimmy Cliff, who surprisingly never had a top ten hit in Ireland - not even any of his fab songs from The Harder They Come. This reached no. 19 in Ireland for him this week in November 1969: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYn...
Wonderful World, Beautiful People
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff, who surprisingly never had a top ten hit in Ireland - not even any of his fab songs from The Harder They Come. This reached no. 19 in Ireland for him this week in November 1969: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYn...
I see the rugby crowd were reading here today: bsky.app/profile/hosf...
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I see the rugby crowd were reading here today: bsky.app/profile/hosf...
Can't get them out of your head? Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles of 2001 at Irish Number Ones irishnumberones.com/by-date/#2001
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Can't get them out of your head? Check out all of Ireland's chart-topping singles of 2001 at Irish Number Ones irishnumberones.com/by-date/#2001
Crying at the discoteque: Ireland's top ten singles this week in November 2001. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Crying at the discoteque: Ireland's top ten singles this week in November 2001. Source: www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-...
Blue at no. 1 in the UK this week in November 2001, despite having just made one of the most notorious interview gaffes of all time: news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/...
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Blue at no. 1 in the UK this week in November 2001, despite having just made one of the most notorious interview gaffes of all time: news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/...
England somehow not going for Dustin's rendition of their beloved 'Sweet Caroline', the UK no. 1 this week in November 2001 was 'If You Come Back' by Blue www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjFO...
Blue - If You Come Back
YouTube video by BlueVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
England somehow not going for Dustin's rendition of their beloved 'Sweet Caroline', the UK no. 1 this week in November 2001 was 'If You Come Back' by Blue www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjFO...
A brilliant '00s dancefloor bop in the Irish charts this week in November 2001: The Ones with 'Flawless' www.youtube.com/watch?v=So6o...
The Ones - Flawless [HQ] (2001 Music Video)
YouTube video by Mark Remington
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November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A brilliant '00s dancefloor bop in the Irish charts this week in November 2001: The Ones with 'Flawless' www.youtube.com/watch?v=So6o...
See yiz in Coppers! Still in the Irish charts this week in November 2001, having peaked at no. 2: that song you love www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8RQ...
Country Roads (Radio Version)
YouTube video by Hermes House Band - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
See yiz in Coppers! Still in the Irish charts this week in November 2001, having peaked at no. 2: that song you love www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8RQ...
You wore a tie like Richard Gere. Wearing a snazzy sample in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: Alcazar's 'Crying At The Discoteque' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiO...
Alcazar - Crying At The Discoteque (Video)
YouTube video by AlcazarVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
You wore a tie like Richard Gere. Wearing a snazzy sample in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: Alcazar's 'Crying At The Discoteque' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiO...
Don't need no hateration holleration in this dancery. Still true, still an absolute banger of a tune: Mary J. Blige's 'Family Affair', in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001 www.youtube.com/watch?v=znlF...
Mary J. Blige - Family Affair (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by MaryJBligeVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Don't need no hateration holleration in this dancery. Still true, still an absolute banger of a tune: Mary J. Blige's 'Family Affair', in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001 www.youtube.com/watch?v=znlF...
Okay, anything good in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001? Well, peaking at no. 3, the debut single from the dependable Alicia Keys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdl...
Alicia Keys - Fallin' (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by aliciakeysVEVO
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November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Okay, anything good in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001? Well, peaking at no. 3, the debut single from the dependable Alicia Keys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urdl...
Well, this aged. New in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: U2's 'Walk On', written about and dedicated to... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwd...
Walk On
YouTube video by U2 - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Well, this aged. New in the Irish top ten this week in November 2001: U2's 'Walk On', written about and dedicated to... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwwd...
Still in the Irish top five this week in November 2001: Afroman's 'Because I Got High', another contender for our worst number one ever irishnumberones.com/2022/12/15/a...
Afroman – ‘Because I Got High’
20 October 2001 There isn’t a precise sales figure for Ireland for Afroman’s ‘Because I Got High’. However, in the market closest to us, the UK, it’s certified as sell…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Still in the Irish top five this week in November 2001: Afroman's 'Because I Got High', another contender for our worst number one ever irishnumberones.com/2022/12/15/a...
You okay, Nicky? Knocked off the Irish number one spot by Dustin's 'Sweet Caroline' this week in November 2001: Westlife with 'Queen Of My Heart' and a strange moment in the video: irishnumberones.com/2022/12/18/w...
Westlife – ‘Queen Of My Heart’
10 November 2001 There’s a weird moment in the video for ‘Queen Of My Heart’, which you can see at the end of these few lines, where Westlifer Nicky takes out a set of clippers fr…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
You okay, Nicky? Knocked off the Irish number one spot by Dustin's 'Sweet Caroline' this week in November 2001: Westlife with 'Queen Of My Heart' and a strange moment in the video: irishnumberones.com/2022/12/18/w...
This is the closest we've ever been - no. 3 in 2005 - to a no. 1 single in Ireland with any variation of our national saint's name in the title, and to the collapse of our society. Thanks, Dustin and Chris De Burgh! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7dt...
Patrica The Stripper
YouTube video by Dustin - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is the closest we've ever been - no. 3 in 2005 - to a no. 1 single in Ireland with any variation of our national saint's name in the title, and to the collapse of our society. Thanks, Dustin and Chris De Burgh! www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7dt...
The only version of 'Rat Trap' to get to no. 1 in Ireland for Bob Geldof or the Boomtown Rats was this 1996 duet with Dustin. (The original reached no. 2 here in 1978, though a UK chart-topper.) irishnumberones.com/2022/07/28/d...
Dustin & Geldof – ‘Rat Trap’
15 November 1996 Ha ha ha! This is gas, right, because Dustin – get this – is a terrible singer! And he’s making a record! So it’s going to be this really terrible record, w…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The only version of 'Rat Trap' to get to no. 1 in Ireland for Bob Geldof or the Boomtown Rats was this 1996 duet with Dustin. (The original reached no. 2 here in 1978, though a UK chart-topper.) irishnumberones.com/2022/07/28/d...
The only version of 'Good Looking Woman' to get to no. 1 in Ireland for Joe Dolan was this 1997 duet with Dustin. (The original only reached no. 4 in 1970.) irishnumberones.com/2022/08/14/d...
Dustin & Joe Dolan – ‘Good Looking Woman’
21 November 1997 Joe Dolan here becomes the only act to have an Irish number one single in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Surprisingly, since it was something of a signature…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The only version of 'Good Looking Woman' to get to no. 1 in Ireland for Joe Dolan was this 1997 duet with Dustin. (The original only reached no. 4 in 1970.) irishnumberones.com/2022/08/14/d...
No. 1 singles in Ireland:
5 - Dustin
1 - the British Army
0 - Aslan, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, The Stunning, The 4 of Us irishnumberones.com/2022/09/21/d...
5 - Dustin
1 - the British Army
0 - Aslan, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, The Stunning, The 4 of Us irishnumberones.com/2022/09/21/d...
Dustin – ’32 Counties’
21 November 1999 Should Dublin people be barred from buying records, and even from making them? It’s all very well that every Dublin person loves the quintessentially stage Dub wit of Dustin,…
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November 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
No. 1 singles in Ireland:
5 - Dustin
1 - the British Army
0 - Aslan, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, The Stunning, The 4 of Us irishnumberones.com/2022/09/21/d...
5 - Dustin
1 - the British Army
0 - Aslan, The Cranberries, The Corrs, Van Morrison, Rory Gallagher, The Stunning, The 4 of Us irishnumberones.com/2022/09/21/d...
Our worst no. 1 ever? Top of the Irish charts this week in November 2001: Dustin with 'Sweet Caroline' irishnumberones.com/2022/12/19/d...
Dustin – ‘Sweet Caroline’
24 November 2001 ‘Sweet Caroline’ is now the unofficial anthem of England’s national football teams, replacing in their supporters’ affections such terrace favourites as …
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November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Our worst no. 1 ever? Top of the Irish charts this week in November 2001: Dustin with 'Sweet Caroline' irishnumberones.com/2022/12/19/d...
Cross-channel, it's now five weeks for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' as the UK no. 1
It's another week at the top for Taylor Swift, and a new Official Singles Chart peak for Sienna Spiro ❤️🔥
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/sienna-spiro-first-top-10-die-on-this-hill-taylor-swift-fifth-week-number-1-single/
https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/sienna-spiro-first-top-10-die-on-this-hill-taylor-swift-fifth-week-number-1-single/
Newcomer Sienna Spiro scores first Top 10 single with Die On This Hill
It's fast becoming a year to remember for 20 year-old London singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro, with Die On This Hill breaking the Top 10 for the very first time (9) this week, marking her out as one to watch in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Cross-channel, it's now five weeks for Taylor Swift's 'The Fate Of Ophelia' as the UK no. 1
Rather spookily given yesterday's news about Mani, the highest new entry on this week's Irish charts, at no. 36, is called 'Fool's Gold'. It's an original song by US sad-boy folk-pop act Buffalo Traffic Jam, though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdsG...
Buffalo Traffic Jam - Fool's Gold (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BTJVEVO
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Rather spookily given yesterday's news about Mani, the highest new entry on this week's Irish charts, at no. 36, is called 'Fool's Gold'. It's an original song by US sad-boy folk-pop act Buffalo Traffic Jam, though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdsG...
This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:
🔽 DOWN six places to no. 85
🔽 385 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Bleak Friday, every Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
🔽 DOWN six places to no. 85
🔽 385 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Bleak Friday, every Friday. 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 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week's 'Mr Brightside'-Watch:
🔽 DOWN six places to no. 85
🔽 385 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Bleak Friday, every Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA
🔽 DOWN six places to no. 85
🔽 385 weeks in total on the Irish charts
🔽 NEVER a no. 1 in Ireland
🔽 NEVER even in the Irish top 40
Bleak Friday, every Friday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdG... Chart data: IRMA