1February
A number of new entries were casually ignored by Jay Kay and Or Joel when they took over Radio 1's chart show during 2005. We have to go back to 2002 to find the last concerted banning of records, when a clearly pissed-off Scott Mills hosted the Easter Sunday chart. No space for two of that week's top ten, the fastest climber, or one of the new entries.
Only once in recent years has the top 40 been entirely abandoned. Following three deaths in a traffic accident in France one evening in August 1997, Radio 1 determined that it would scrap the scheduled broadcast of the chart, and replace it with some ambient muzak. Station controller Matthew Bannister said in the behind-the-scenes book The Nation's Favourite
that no-one complained. The phrase he's looking for is no complaints reached my desk, because some were made.
That week's chart featured three songs that be gone a week later - the Cardigans' Your new cuckoo
, Hurricane #1's Chain reaction
, and Gina G's Gimme some love
. None of these tunes were ever played on the chart show. This was the final week on chart for both Gina G and Living Joy, and was the last appearance for Wet Wet Wet until their short-lived comeback in 2004.
