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

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

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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.

Featuring the following tracks:

The Black Eyed Peas - Pump It

Beatfreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me

Boy Kill Boy - Suzie

Busta Rhymes - Touch It

Chicane feat. Tom Jones - Stoned in Love

Chris Brown - Yo (Excuse Me Miss)

Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy - Say I

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

Daz Sampson - Teenage Life

Delays - Hideaway

Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You’re Dead

Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance

Feeder - Lost and Found

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Graham Coxon - You & I

Hot Chip - Boy From School

Infernal - From Paris to Berlin

The Kooks - Naive

LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself

Mary J. Blige and U2 - One

Michael Jackson - In the Closet

Ne-Yo - So Sick

Nina Simone vs Groovefinder - Ain’t Got No (I Got Life)

Orson - Bright Idea

Orson - No Tomorrow

Panic! at the Disco - But It’s Better If You Do

Pet Shop Boys - I’m With Stupid

Pink - Stupid Girls

The Pussycat Dolls feat. will.i.am - Beep

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California

Rihanna - SOS

Sean Paul - Temperature

Shayne Ward - No Promises

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla

Snow Patrol - You’re All I Have

T-Pain - I’m Sprung

Upper Room - Black and White

We Are Scientists - Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt

Will Young - Who Am I



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