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.

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.

Featuring the following songs:

The Automatic - Monster

Beatfreakz - Somebody’s Watching Me

Busta Rhymes - Touch It

Chicane feat. Tom Jones - Stoned in Love

Christina Milian feat. Young Jeezy - Say I

Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping

Daz Sampson - Teenage Life

Embrace - World at Your Feet

The Feeling - Fill My Little World

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

Infernal - From Paris to Berlin

Jack Johnson - Upside Down

Keane - Is It Any Wonder

The Kooks - Naive

LeAnn Rimes - And It Feels Like

LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez - Control Myself

Loleatta Holloway - Love Sensation 06

Mary J. Blige and U2 - One

Matt Willis - Up All Night

Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone

Nelly Furtado - Maneater

Nerina Pallot - Everybody’s Gone to War

Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat

Ordinary Boys and Lady Sovereign - Nine2Five

Orson - Bright Idea

Orson - No Tomorrow

Paul Simon - Father and Daughter

Pink - Who Knew

Primal Scream - Country Girl

The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California

Rihanna - SOS

Ronan Keating and Kate Rusby - All Over Again

Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)

Shayne Ward - No Promises

Snow Patrol - You’re All I Have

Stan Boardman - Stan’s World Cup Song

Sunblock feat. Robin Beck - First Time

Tony Christie - (Is This The Way to) the World Cup

Will Young - Who Am I

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