document_title: 2002 in British music charts

question_text: who topped the album charts in 2002 with imagine

text: 2002 in British music charts

text: Summary[edit]

text: Charts[edit]

text: January[edit]

text: The first week of the month was the last week at the top for 2001's Christmas chart topper, a modern rendition of "Somethin' Stupid", by Robbie Williams . Returning to the top for one final week was Daniel Bedingfield's debut single, "Gotta Get Thru This". It broke the record for lowest weekly sale for a number one single, selling only 25,500 copies in that week. The single was to decline slightly during 2002, but rapidly after the year's end. The remainder of the month was to be incredibly morbid. Dying in a plane crash in the summer of 2001 at the young age of 22, R'n'B vocalist, Aaliyah hit the top with her posthumous release, "More Than a Woman". She had broken a record in the US, becoming the first artist to make No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 based solely upon airplay points, with her single "Try Again". Overtaking her was what made this month significant. The youngest Beatle, George Harrison, died in November 2001 after a long struggle with cancer. His No. 1 from 1971, "My Sweet Lord" was re-issued and shot straight to the top of the charts. Though it only remained there a week, it entered the record books, being the first time in UK chart history a posthumous release has taken over from another posthumous release by another artist.

text: Returning to number one after April in 2001, the Stereophonics returned to the top with their third album, Just Enough Education to Perform. Spawning two No. 5 singles, the album remained at the top for 3 weeks in this return, one more week than its original stay. This made its total number of weeks at the top 5. This became their 2nd UK album chart topper, and a 3rd was to follow the following year.

text: February[edit]

text: Spanish performer Enrique Iglesias was next to hit the top with what many see as his UK Breakthrough (though he had two top tens two years prior) with the single release of the ballad "Hero" which stayed at the top for four weeks. He made himself and his father Julio Iglesias the first father/son combination to top the charts separately and as solo artists. His father had hit the top of the UK charts over 20 years prior with his cover version of "Begin The Beguine". The track was taken from his chart topping album Escape which made him the first act to top the single and album charts simultaneously in five years and spawned a No. 3 hit "Escape" and two No. 12 hits by December.

text: Taking over from the Stereophonics were fusion kings, the Chemical Brothers, with their 3rd No. 1 album, Come With Us. Despite having received success on the albums chart throughout their career, they hadn't received a chart topping single early 1997. Topping the charts alongside his only number one single, Enrique's second English album, Escape topped the charts for 2 weeks making him the first Latin Artist to have a number one single and album simultaneously in the UK as well as the first person since the Spice Girls.

text: March[edit]

text: Overtaking the totals of pop phenomena Spice Girls and ABBA, Westlife hit the top for a record 10th time, with their third release from their third album, "World Of Our Own". The album of the same name, became their second consecutive No. 1 album. They now had as many number ones as the queen of pop herself, Madonna. They also were the act to obtain  10 chart toppers the quickest (now 5 acts had achieved 10 or more) with only 35 months between this and their first. However, it could be said this record is unfair, because it was only a few months after that the Beatles managed to achieve 10, but they tended to spend several weeks at the summit, slowing down their release rate, whereas most of Westlife's #1's spent one to two weeks at the top.

text: Taking over was the fastest selling debut single in UK chart history. Winner of the TV talent show, Pop Idol, Will Young had been voted as the winner by over 4 million people in the final. Despite the media suggesting this was unexpected, Young actually won six out of the nine weeks with Gareth Gates the eventually runner-up winning three times.  His debut single "Anything is Possible/Evergreen", topped the charts for 3 weeks and sold over 1.1 million copies in its first week of sale, making it the fastest selling debut single in UK chart history. Altogether it sold over 1.7 million copies becoming the 11th biggest selling single in the UK. It is also the second fastest selling single in the UK with only Elton John's "Candle in the Wind" ahead of it. It became the biggest selling single of the year.

text: A 2-week run at the top was next from veteran band The Police. Experiencing massive success in the early 1980s with 5 No. 1 singles, lead singer Sting eventually went solo and became a very successful and highly respected musician, especially in the US. A combination of his greatest hits and the Police's greatest hits was released entitled The Very Best of Sting & The Police. Greatest hits took over from greatest hits when The Essential Barbra Streisand replaced Sting & The Police at the top, however after a week it was knocked off by rock band, Nickelback with their 3rd studio album, Silver Side Up. The album spawned a massive No. 4 hit, "How You Remind Me", which made No. 1 in the US.

text: April[edit]

text: Taking over from the winner of the show, Pop Idol, runner up Gareth Gates scored a No. 1 with his debut single, "Unchained Melody". Incredibly he spent one further week at the summit than Will Young did, becoming the second single of the year to have a four-week run at #1. However, the single itself sold less than Will Young's, selling only 1.3 million copies, but nonetheless it became the 77th million selling single in the UK and the last one until 2004. Overall, it is the 37th biggest selling single in the UK. The more incredible thing about this song is that it is the fourth single to reach the summit 4 times by different artists. First was Jimmy Young in 1955, then a re-issue of The Righteous Brothers in 1990, then the acting duo Robson & Jerome took it the top in 1995 and finally Gareth Gates in 2002. Robson & Jerome's version remains the biggest selling to date.

text: Scoring their sixth UK chart topper Oasis returned to the top of the UK charts with a track similar to their older material, "The Hindu Times". The track was taken off their new album, Heathen Chemistry. It only lasted a week at the summit, following the same fate as every other No. 1 single they had.

text: The top of the albums chart was dominated by a lady with a powerful voice and her 5th UK No. 1 album, Céline Dion with A New Day Has Come. Staying at the top for 4 weeks, she did not hit the top again for the next two years, but continued charting throughout. The album's singles did not fare as well as the album, one making the Top 10, one settling in the Top 20 and one just creeping into the Top 40.

text: May[edit]

text: Having charted since 2000, UK girl group Sugababes (who were now under their second line-up of original members Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena and former Atomic Kitten member Heidi Range, who replaced Siobhán Donaghy after her departure the previous year) scored their first UK number one with their 5th single, "Freak like Me". The song was originally performed by Adina Howard in 1995 who took it to No. 33 – the group's version took the lyrics and placed them over an interpolated sample of Gary Numan and Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric?, itself a UK number one from 1979. After a short spell of 7 days, a third Neighbours star scored a UK No.1. Holly Valance's debut single, "Kiss Kiss" was originally released in Europe written in Turkish. Holly scored a No. 2 hit, "Down Boy" later on in the year and her debut album, Footprints made #9. After releasing 2 further singles, she disappeared from the music scene. With his fifth consecutive Top 10 single and 3rd UK No. 1, Ronan Keating returns to the top of the singles chart with the first release off his new album Destination. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" was originally a hit in the US for Garth Brooks.

text: Continuing the run of one week number ones were Liberty X. The five losers who just failed to make Hear'Say in the talent show Popstars formed Liberty X. Despite scoring only one UK No. 1 single with Just a Little, the group continued successfully into 2003/4 and proved themselves to be more successful than Hear'Say, who disbanded in October of this year. Also, after not releasing a single in the United Kingdom for almost 11 months, Atomic Kitten released their 9th single, titled It's Ok!, peaked at No. 3 on the charts, and eventually went silver. Even bigger success was to follow with their next release. Also scoring big success were S Club Juniors, an 8-piece pre-teen spin off from their already successful predecessors S Club 7 (who saw the departure of band member Paul Cattermole earlier that year). After being chosen from nationwide auditions to support S Club 7 on their arena tour, their debut single One Step Closer sent them straight to number 2, a position they also reached later in the year with their next two releases Automatic High in August and New Direction in October. Despite the split of the remaining six members of S Club 7 the following year, and a name change to S Club 8 they would go on to release two top 20 albums and score 7 top 20 singles before they disbanded in early 2005. Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman from the group, however, would re-emerge 5 years later in new girl group The Saturdays.

text: Nearly six months after its release, boyband Blue hit the top with their debut album, All Rise. The album had already spawned two number one singles by this point, "Too Close" and "If You Come Back" the previous year. The title track from their album, which was their debut single had also made No. 4 and a fourth single, "Fly by II" reached No. 6 in March of this year. It was only a week before British indie rock band, Doves hit the top with their 2nd album, The Last Broadcast which remained at the top for 2 weeks. It was quickly knocked off by American electronic musician Moby with his 2nd UK No. 1 album, 18. Despite having charted since 1991 he has only received 2 Top 10 hits.

text: On 23 May, the Classical Brits award ceremony took place.  The most successful British performers were Sir Colin Davis, Russell Watson and Guy Johnston.

text: June[edit]

text: Consolidating his position as the rapper with the most UK chart toppers, Eminem hit the top for a third time with the first single from his third album, "Without Me". The album spent 5 weeks at the top of the UK charts, becoming the second longest stay of the year and the longest stay until December. The album, The Eminem Show was to become his most successful to date in the UK along with Curtain Call in 2005.

text: Will Young hit the top again with his second single "Light My Fire", a cover of a classic Doors track which only made No. 49 in 1967. He had performed this on the show, Pop Idol, and the performance was praised highly by the general public. The single was successful, topping the charts for 2 weeks.

text: As for the albums chart, first to hit the top was Ronan Keating with his second album, Destination. The album had already spawned a No. 1 single, "If Tomorrow Never Comes". Ronan continued to chart into 2004.

text: July[edit]

text: Becoming another single to spend 4 weeks at the top, "A Little Less Conversation" ended an ongoing chart battle since 1977. Elvis accumulated 15 chart toppers by 1965, during which the Beatles were enjoying their time as global megastars. They then got a record 17 chart toppers by 1969, when they finally began to fade. Elvis scored a 16th chart topper in 1970, when he revived his career in Las Vegas. Then a single made just before his death was released after his death in May 1977 and went straight to No.1, giving him his 17th UK #1. The two biggest music acts in the UK were neck and neck, and despite numerous posthumous releases, it wasn't until 25 years later that one of them finally took the lead. It was indeed the king of pop, Elvis Presley, who scored his 18th UK No. 1, with a remix of an old hit from a long forgotten movie. "A Little Less Conversation" was remixed by DJ JXL, and used in a Nike World Cup advertisement. As a consequence, it shot straight to the top of the UK charts putting Elvis at the top of the most #1's category.

text: Taking over was Gareth Gates, scoring his second No.1 single this time with an original song, being one of his few singles to have not been cover versions. "Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)" topped the charts for 3 weeks, bettering Will Young by one week once again.

text: Topping the albums chart for the fourth time, Oasis hit the top with their new album, Heathen Chemistry. The album's singles had already received success with "The Hindu Times" becoming their 6th No. 1 and the follow-up single, "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" peaking at #2. The album, however, only spent a week at the top quickly overtaken by the first release in 2 years from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, By the Way. The title track from the album became their highest charting single ever, making #2. This was also their only No. 1 album.

text: August[edit]

text: Hitting the top was Darius Danesh, third in Pop Idol. "Colourblind" spent two weeks at the top, but despite being less successful than the debuts of Gareth or Will, Darius wrote the song himself. The Sugababes hit the top for a second time with their sixth single, "Round Round". Like their first No. 1 single, it only spent a week at the summit. The song was taken from the soundtrack to the hit film, "The Guru". Specialising in Pop/R'N'B with garage influences, all-male act, Blazin' Squad entered at the top of the charts with their massively hyped debut single, "Crossroads". Their success slowly decline throughout their career.

text: Interrupting the Chili's run at the top was US singing legend, Bruce Springsteen hit the top with his 5th No. 1 album, The Rising. His success on the singles chart was fading rapidly since the early 90's, with no Top 10 hits since 1994. Returning to the top for a further 2 weeks were the Chili's with By the Way. Having been a successful band throughout the 80's the 90's was a slightly quieter decade for the group, but the release of Californication turned them around in 2000 and By the Way helped propel them straight to the top. Scoring a 2nd consecutive UK No. 1 album, another collection of the late Eva Cassidy's work was compiled and released. Imagine was not quite as successful as Songbird, only topping the chart for a week, but put her on the way to breaking a chart record the following year.

text: September[edit]

text: Reviving an old number one for the second time to create another one for themselves were girl group Atomic Kitten. This time it was Blondie's 1980 chart topper "The Tide Is High", which they changed slightly to make "The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)". It topped the charts for three weeks and after this they never saw the top of the charts again in the United Kingdom, however they had managed three number-one singles in the UK throughout their career. They split at the beginning of 2004, releasing a Greatest Hits album. US solo performer, Pink scored her first solo chart topper with a track taken from her second album, Missundaztood. The track was called "Just Like a Pill" and gave P!nk her second UK number one. Her album Missundaztood only peaked at number 2 despite producing several hit singles.

text: Increasing their popularity even further, Coldplay released their second album, and follow up to massive successful Parachutes. A Rush of Blood to the Head became a great success. Containing hits such as "In My Place", "The Scientist" & "Clocks", the album even sustained their popularity in the US and they became one of the few 21st century British acts to achieve fame and popularity in the US. While topping the singles charts with their third and final number one, Atomic Kitten scored a No. 1 album with their 3rd release, Feels So Good. The album spawned two top 3 hits as well as their 3rd chart topper.

text: October[edit]

text: After both having two chart toppers, the two "Pop Idols", Will Young and Gareth Gates joined forces and revived an old Beatles classic, "The Long and Winding Road". It gave them both their third UK chart topper and established both of them as national stars. However, it was from here that Gareth would slowly decline and Will would rise to become an even bigger star. The B-side to this was Gareth's re-working of Elvis' classic No. 2 from 1969, "Suspicious Minds".  Will Young's version of Jackie Wilson's" Sweetest Feeling" also appeared on the B-side.

text: The year was proving to be very successful for Elvis in many ways and there was one great album success to still be received. Next to hit the top, but only for a week were three Spanish sisters, Las Ketchup with a holiday novelty song "The Ketchup Song (Asjere)". What was probably considered the tune of 2002 came next and was a duet between US rapper Nelly and Kelly Rowland, a member of Destiny's Child. She was the only one out of the three from her old group experiencing success as a solo artist, but she soon would be overtaken by Beyoncé Knowles. "Dilemma" became a song no-one would ever forget and stayed on top of the charts for 2 weeks. It also topped the charts in the US. Nelly experienced much greater success in his home country compared to the UK.

text: Gathering every No. 1 single Elvis had experienced in both the UK and US, a collection of 30 songs plus "A Little Less Conversation" as a bonus track was released on an album, entitled Elv1s – 30 Number 1 Hits. The king of pop clocked up more sales, staying on top for 2 weeks. He was replaced by Pop Idol Will Young, who scored his first No. 1 album, with 'From Now On'. The album contained his first 3 singles, all of which had topped the chart. The album stayed at the top of the charts for 2 weeks. The album spawned one final hit, which peaked at #2.

text: November[edit]

text: Based in Germany, Spanish producer, DJ Sammy, featuring Yanou and Do on vocals re-worked an old Bryan Adams track from 1985, "Heaven" and took it to the top. Bryan Adams only managed to take the track to #38. Only lasting a week at the summit, the song was quickly overtaken by the boyband that could do no wrong. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UK charts, since when they first started back in 1952, the 941st No.1 came from Westlife yet again, with their 11th No. 1 single, "Unbreakable". This gave them more chart toppers than the queen of pop herself, Madonna. Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Cliff Richard had received more No. 1 singles than Westlife now. After a week, US superstar, Christina Aguilera returned to the top of the UK charts for the 3rd time promoting a new raunchier image with her first single from her second album, Stripped. "Dirrty" came with an overtly sexual video and despite its massive popularity in the UK, it failed to reach the Top 20 in her US homeland.

text: US rock band, the Foo Fighters scored their first No. 1 album with their fourth release, One By One. All of the band's three previous albums had gone Top 10, two of them going Top 3. However, after a week, the singer David Gray took over from them with his second album, A New Day At Midnight. It stayed on top for a week but was nowhere near as successful as its predecessor, White Ladder. Blue returned to the top of the album chart, again for one week only, with their second release, One Love, which would provide them with three more top 10 hits, including their third and final UK No. 1 the following month. Compiling all of their singles to date, boyband Westlife released Unbreakable – The Greatest Hits – Vol 1 containing their 11 No. 1 singles and other hits. It was quickly knocked off by the biggest selling album of the year, which topped the charts all through December and part of January.

text: December[edit]

text: Twelve months after he hit the top with his debut single, Daniel Bedingfield returned to the top with a slow ballad, "If You're Not The One". It became his 2nd UK No. 1 and was the third release from his debut album, Gotta Get Thru This, which despite producing 5 Top 10 singles and 6 Top 40 hits only managed to make No. 13 in the albums chart. A fourth chart topper confirmed Eminem as the most successful rapper in UK chart history. The song, "Lose Yourself" is taken from the soundtrack to his own film, 8 Mile, which also proved very popular. The song also topped the charts in the US. Boy band Blue returned to the top of the UK charts for the 3rd time collaborating with Elton John to revive an old hit of his, "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word". Amazingly, despite charting for 31 years, this was only Elton's 5th UK No. 1 single. Popstars: The Rivals became the new phenomenon in the world of talent shows and it produced 2 new acts, boyband One True Voice and girl group Girls Aloud. They both released their singles in Christmas week and the girls beat the boys to the top spot, claiming the Christmas number one with their debut single, "Sound of the Underground". The song topped the charts for 4 weeks, and escalated them to great fame. They have had continued success for 6 years releasing 20 top 10 singles and 6 successful albums, but One True Voice quickly disappeared from the music scene after just one more hit.

text: Robbie Williams took the Christmas number one album spot yet again with his fifth No. 1 album, Escapology. The album contained the massive single hit, "Feel" and the soon to be single hits, "Come Undone", "Something Beautiful" and "Sexed Up". The album remained on top for 6 weeks, becoming the longest stay at the top since he himself topped the charts last year in December, when Swing When You're Winning topped the charts for 7 weeks. Amazingly, the album did return to the top the following year almost nine  months after it was first released. It became one of the few albums to drop out of the Top 40 and climb back in to reach the top spot again.

text: Classical music[edit]

text: The year produced several new classical works by British composers, including Derek Bourgeois's Symphony No. 9 and Peter Maxwell Davies's Naxos Quartet No. 1.  The biggest classical hit of 2002, however, was Tolga Kashif's Queen Symphony, which used themes from works by Queen to create a full-length orchestral work.  Patrick Hawes wrote his first film score, for The Incredible Mrs Ritchie, directed by Paul Johansson.

text: Howard Goodall followed up his earlier successful TV series Howard Goodall's Big Bangs with Howard Goodall's Great Dates, in which he focused on significant dates in the history of music.

text: Charts[edit]

text: Number-one singles[edit]

text:
Chart date (week ending)

Song

Artist(s)

Sales

5 January
"Somethin' Stupid"
Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman
68,000

12 January
"Gotta Get Thru This"
Daniel Bedingfield
27,000

19 January
"More Than a Woman"
Aaliyah
30,081

26 January
"My Sweet Lord"
George Harrison
66,567

2 February
"Hero"
Enrique Iglesias
101,056

9 February
98,388

16 February
82,000

23 February
100,000

2 March
"World of Our Own"
Westlife
102,000

9 March
"Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen"
Will Young
1,108,659

16 March
377,074

23 March
100,000

30 March
"Unchained Melody"
Gareth Gates
850,535

6 April
228,477

13 April
102,321

20 April
83,500

27 April
"The Hindu Times"
Oasis
116,321

4 May
"Freak Like Me"
Sugababes
85,500

11 May
"Kiss Kiss"
Holly Valance
143,408

18 May
"If Tomorrow Never Comes"
Ronan Keating
147,610

25 May
"Just a Little"
Liberty X
153,219

1 June
"Without Me"
Eminem
185,500

8 June
"Light My Fire"
Will Young
177,000

15 June
62,000

22 June
"A Little Less Conversation"
Elvis vs JXL
278,782

29 June
201,211

6 July
188,427

13 July
136,000

20 July
"Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)"
Gareth Gates
241,000

27 July
105,000

3 August
67,000

10 August
"Colourblind"
Darius
111,000

17 August
62,000

24 August
"Round Round"
Sugababes
79,000

31 August
"Crossroads"
Blazin' Squad
53,000

7 September
"The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"
Atomic Kitten
144,000

14 September
67,000

21 September
46,000

28 September
"Just Like a Pill"
Pink
49,000

5 October
"The Long and Winding Road" /  "Suspicious Minds" / "Sweetest Feeling"
Will Young & Gareth Gates
132,500

12 October
65,000

19 October
"The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)"
Las Ketchup
105,000

26 October
"Dilemma"
Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland
200,000

2 November
129,000

9 November
"Heaven"
DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do
119,000

16 November
"Unbreakable"
Westlife
90,000

23 November
"Dirrty"
Christina Aguilera featuring Redman
74,000

30 November
47,000

7 December
"If You're Not the One"
Daniel Bedingfield
74,500

14 December
"Lose Yourself"
Eminem
91,000

21 December
"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
Blue featuring Elton John
87,000

28 December
"Sound of the Underground"
Girls Aloud
213,140

text: Number-one albums[edit]

text:
Chart date (week ending)
Album
Artist
Sales

5 January
Swing When You're Winning
Robbie Williams
180,000

12 January
47,000

19 January
Just Enough Education to Perform
Stereophonics
41,000

26 January
45,000

2 February
40,000

9 February
Come With Us
The Chemical Brothers
49,500

16 February
Escape
Enrique Iglesias
38,500

23 February
57,750

2 March
The Very Best Of
Sting & The Police
38,000

9 March
59,000

16 March
The Essential Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
79,167

23 March
Silver Side Up
Nickelback
38,000

30 March
39,000

6 April
A New Day Has Come
Céline Dion
89,000

13 April
39,000

20 April
32,000

27 April
26,500

4 May
All Rise
Blue
23,917

11 May
The Last Broadcast
Doves
52,000

18 May
22,500

25 May
18
Moby
51,658

1 June
Destination
Ronan Keating
123,000

8 June
The Eminem Show
Eminem
228,297

15 June
87,000

22 June
59,000

29 June
47,000

6 July
44,000

13 July
Heathen Chemistry
Oasis
230,551

20 July
By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers
134,055

27 July
72,000

3 August
56,700

10 August
The Rising
Bruce Springsteen
57,071

17 August
By the Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers
36,000

24 August
31,000

31 August
Imagine
Eva Cassidy
57,500

7 September
A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay
273,924

14 September
108,000

21 September
Feels So Good
Atomic Kitten
80,000

28 September
Illumination
Paul Weller
54,000

5 October
Elv1s – 30 No. 1 Hits
Elvis Presley
134,000

12 October
99,840

19 October
From Now On
Will Young
187,350

26 October
59,000

2 November
One By One
Foo Fighters
91,471

9 November
A New Day At Midnight
David Gray
118,000

16 November
One Love
Blue
117,500

23 November
Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Westlife
188,000

30 November
Escapology
Robbie Williams
264,104

7 December
187,000

14 December
195,000

21 December
229,000

28 December
310,000

text: Number-one compilation albums[edit]

text:
Chart date (week ending)
Album

5 January
Now 50

12 January

19 January
Clubbers Guide to 2002

26 January

2 February

9 February
Best Club Anthems 2002

16 February
Club Mix 2002

23 February
Love So Strong

2 March
School Disco.com – Spring Term

9 March

16 March
New Woman 2002

23 March
Supercharged

30 March

6 April
Now 51

13 April

20 April
Pop Idol – The Big Band Album

text: Year-end charts[edit]

text: Between 29 December 2001 and 28 December 2002.

text: Best-selling singles[edit]

text:
No.

Title

Artist

Peakposition

Sales[2]

1

"Anything Is Possible"/"Evergreen"

Will Young

1

1,783,919

2

"Unchained Melody"

Gareth Gates

1

1,329,740

3

"Hero"

Enrique Iglesias

1

689,279

4

"Dilemma"

Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland

1

659,662

5

"A Little Less Conversation"

Elvis vs JXL

1

634,364

6

"Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)"

Gareth Gates

1

573,125

7

"Whenever, Wherever"

Shakira

2

554,756

8

"The Ketchup Song (Asereje)"

Las Ketchup

1

538,591

9

"Just a Little"

Liberty X

1

487,037

10

"Without Me"

Eminem

1

486,138

11

"If Tomorrow Never Comes"

Ronan Keating

1

12

"How You Remind Me"

Nickelback

4

13

"The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling)"

Atomic Kitten

1

14

"Kiss Kiss"

Holly Valance

1

15

"The Logical Song"

Scooter

2

16

"Light My Fire"

Will Young

1

17

"Sound of the Underground"

Girls Aloud

1

18

"Colourblind"

Darius

1

19

"Heaven"

DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do

1

20

"Me Julie"

Ali G and Shaggy

2

21

"Get the Party Started"

Pink

2

22

"The Long and Winding Road"/"Suspicious Minds"

Will Young and Gareth Gates/Gareth Gates

1

23

"One Step Closer"

S Club Juniors

2

24

"Cheeky Song (Touch My Bum)"

The Cheeky Girls

2

25

"If You're Not the One"

Daniel Bedingfield

1

26

"Something"

Lasgo

4

27

"Hot in Herre"

Nelly

4

28

"Freak Like Me"

Sugababes

1

29

"Nu Flow"

Big Brovaz

3

30

"Dirrty"

Christina Aguilera featuring Redman

1

31

"Round Round"

Sugababes

1

32

"Lose Yourself"

Eminem

1

33

"Like I Love You"

Justin Timberlake

2

34

"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"

Blue featuring Elton John

1

35

"It's OK!"

Atomic Kitten

3

36

"Complicated"

Avril Lavigne

3

37

"Addicted to Bass"

Puretone

2

38

"Sacred Trust"/"After You're Gone (I'll Still Be Loving You)"

One True Voice

2

39

"Hero"

Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott

4

40

"World of Our Own"

Westlife

1

41

"Underneath Your Clothes"

Shakira

3

42

"Just Like a Pill"

Pink

1

43

"The Hindu Times"

Oasis

1

44

"Girlfriend"

NSYNC featuring Nelly

2

45

"One Love"

Blue

3

46

"Escape"

Enrique Iglesias

3

47

"4 My People"

Missy "Misdemeanour" Elliott featuring Eve

4

48

"Automatic High"

S Club Juniors

2

49

"Insatiable"

Darren Hayes

8

50

"Stop Crying Your Heart Out"

Oasis

2

text: Best-selling albums[edit]

text:
No.

Title

Artist

Peakposition

Sales

1

Escapology

Robbie Williams

1

2

Missundaztood

Pink

3

3

Escape

Enrique Iglesias

1

4

A Rush of Blood to the Head

Coldplay

1

5

One Love

Blue

1

6

By the Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers

1

7

The Eminem Show

Eminem

1

8

Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1

Westlife

1

9

ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits

Elvis Presley

1

10

Heathen Chemistry

Oasis

1

11

Come Away with Me

Norah Jones

3[a]

12

Silver Side Up

Nickelback

1

13

A New Day at Midnight

David Gray

1

14

Greatest Hits I, II & III (The Platinum Collection)

Queen

2

15

Fever

Kylie Minogue

1

16

Let Go

Avril Lavigne

4[b]

17

Greatest Hits 1970–2002

Elton John

3

18

From Now On

Will Young

1

19

Forty Licks

The Rolling Stones

2

20

Feels So Good

Atomic Kitten

1

21

Laundry Service

Shakira

2

22

Nellyville

Nelly

2

23

Destination

Ronan Keating

1

24

Just Enough Education to Perform

Stereophonics

1

25

Angels with Dirty Faces

Sugababes

2

26

All Rise

Blue

1

27

No Angel

Dido

1

28

Read My Lips

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

2

29

Freak of Nature

Anastacia

4

30

What My Heart Wants to Say

Gareth Gates

2

31

Songs in A Minor

Alicia Keys

6

32

Thinking It Over

Liberty X

3

33

White Ladder

David Gray

1

34

Nirvana

Nirvana

3

35

Swing When You're Winning

Robbie Williams

1

36

The Essential Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand}

1

37

Up!

Shania Twain

4

38

Ashanti

Ashanti

3

39

A New Day Has Come

Céline Dion

1

40

Pain Is Love

Ja Rule

3

41

18

Moby

1

42

Imagine

Eva Cassidy

1

43

Sentimento

Andrea Bocelli

7

44

The Very Best of Sting & The Police

Sting and the Police

1

45

The Best of 1990–2000 & B-Sides

U2

2

46

Spin

Darren Hayes

2

47

It Had to Be You: The Great American Songbook

Rod Stewart

8

48

J to tha L-O! The Remixes

Jennifer Lopez

4

49

No More Drama

Mary J. Blige

4

50

A Funk Odyssey

Jamiroquai

1

text: Best-selling compilations[edit]

text:
No.

Title

Peakposition

1

Now 53

1

2

Now 51

1

3

Now 52

1

4

Pop Idol: The Big Band Album

1

5

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

3

6

Clubland: The Ride of Your Life

1

7

Clubland II: The Ride of Your Life

1

8

Country Legends

2

9

The Annual 2003

1

10

Fame Academy

2

text: Notes:

text:
Jump up ^ Reached number 1 in 2003

Jump up ^ Reached number 1 in 2003

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document_title: Domino's Pizza

question_text: where did domino's pizza get its name from

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text: Domino's Pizza

text: History[edit]

text: In 1960, Tom Monaghan and his brother, James, purchased DomiNick's, a small pizza store at 301 West Cross Street[7] in Ypsilanti, Michigan, near Eastern Michigan University.[8] The deal was secured by a $500 down payment, and the brothers borrowed $900 to pay for the store.[9] The brothers planned to split the work hours evenly, but James didn't want to quit his job as a full-time postman to keep up with the demands of the new business. Within eight months, James traded his half of the business to Tom for the Volkswagen Beetle they used for pizza deliveries.[9] By 1965, Tom Monaghan had purchased two additional pizzerias; he now had a total of three locations in the same county. Monaghan wanted the stores to share the same branding, but the original owner forbade him from using the DomiNick's name. One day an employee returned from a pizza delivery and suggested the name Domino's. Monaghan immediately loved the idea and officially renamed the business Domino's Pizza, Inc. in 1965.[9]

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text: The company logo originally had three dots, representing the three stores in 1965.[9] Monaghan planned to add a new dot with the addition of every new store, but this idea quickly faded, as Domino's experienced rapid growth.[9] Domino's Pizza opened its first franchise location in 1967[10] and by 1978, the company expanded to 200 stores.[11] In 1975, Domino's faced a lawsuit by Amstar Corporation, the maker of Domino Sugar, alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition. On May 2, 1980, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found in favor of Domino's Pizza.[12]

text: International expansion[edit]

text: On May 12, 1983, Domino's opened its first international store, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.[13] That same year, Domino's opened its 1,000th store, its first in Vancouver Washington. In 1985, the chain opened their first store in the United Kingdom in Luton.[14] Also, in 1985, Domino's opened their first store in Tokyo, Japan. In 1993, they became the second American franchise to open in the Dominican Republic and the first one to open in Haiti, under the direction of entrepreneur Luis de Jesús Rodríguez.[15] By 1995, Domino's had expanded to 1,000 international locations. In 1997, Domino's opened its 1,500th international location, opening seven stores in one day across five continents.[16] By 2014, the company had grown to 6,000 international locations and was planning to expand to pizza's birthplace, Italy; this was achieved on October 5, 2015, in Milan with the first restaurant. CEO Patrick Doyle, in May 2014, said the company would concentrate on its delivery model there.[17]

text: In February 2016, Domino's opened its 1,000th store in India.[18]

text: China[edit]

text: Domino's Pizza chose to use its traditional delivery-based business model in China, neither altering its flavors nor reducing the sizes of pizzas,[19] and promising a 30-minute delivery time.[20] The delivery time promise failed due to Chinese automobile traffic patterns stymieing the delivery operations.[20] The large pizza sizes prevented Chinese people from using knives and forks to eat them,[19] and takeout services were unpopular with Chinese people due to cultural reasons.[21] Savio S. Chan (Chinese: 陳少宏; pinyin: Chén Shàohóng) and Michael Zakkour, authors of China's Super Consumers: What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them, wrote that Domino's "failed miserably" in its strategy,[20] resulting in the company being "basically" irrelevant in China, with 40 restaurants as of 2014.[19] By January 2014, the company introduced small restaurants in the China market. Jamie Fullerton of Vice stated that these restaurants served "solid, mildly overpriced pizzas" and did not have unique to China menu items.[22]

text: Sale[edit]

text: In 1998, after 38 years of ownership, Domino's founder Tom Monaghan announced his retirement, sold 93 percent of the company to Bain Capital, Inc. for about $1 billion, and ceased being involved in day-to-day operations of the company.[23] A year later, the company named Dave Brandon as its CEO.[24]

text: Present[edit]

text: In 2004, after 44 years as a privately held company, Domino's began trading common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "DPZ".[25] Industry trade publication Pizza Today magazine named Domino's Pizza "Chain of the Year" in 2003, 2010, and 2011.[26][27][28] In a simultaneous celebration in January 2006, Domino's opened its 5,000th U.S. store in Huntley, Illinois, and its 3,000th international store in Panama City, Panama making 8,000 total stores for the system.[29] In August 2006, the Domino's location in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, became the first store in Domino's history to hit a turnover of $3 million (€2.35 million) per year.[30] As of September 2006[update], Domino's has 8,200+ stores worldwide, which totaled $1.4 billion in gross income.[31]

text: Innovations[edit]

text: In 2007, Domino's introduced its Veterans Delivering the Dream franchising program and also rolled out its online and mobile ordering sites.[11] In 2008, Domino's introduced the Pizza Tracker, an online application that allows customers to view the status of their order in a real time progress bar.[32] The first Domino's with a dining room opened in Stephenville, Texas, giving the customers the option to either eat in or take their pizza home. Since 2005, the voice of Domino's Pizza's US phone ordering service has been Kevin Railsback.[33]

text: In a 2009 survey of consumer taste preferences among national chains by Brand Keys, Domino's was last — tied with Chuck E. Cheese's. In December that year, Domino's announced plans to entirely reinvent its pizza. It began a self-critical ad campaign in which consumers were filmed criticizing the then-current pizza's quality and chefs were shown developing a new pizza.[34][35] The new pizza was unveiled that same month. The following year, 2010 and Domino's 50th anniversary, the company hired J. Patrick Doyle as its new CEO and experienced a 14.3% quarterly gain. While admitted not to endure, the success was described by Doyle as one of the largest quarterly same-store sales jumps ever recorded by a major fast-food chain.[36][37]

text: In 2015, Dominos unveiled a special "pizza car" that can carry 80 pizzas, sides, 2-liter bottles of soda, and dipping sauces.[38] It also has a 140-degree oven on board and is more fuel efficient than a standard delivery car. Officially named the DXP, the car is built on the Chevy Spark platform and each car will be retired once it hits 100,000 miles.[39]

text: In 2016, Domino's in New Zealand delivered the world's first pizza delivery by unmanned aerial vehicle using the DRU Drone by Flirety.[40]

text: In February 2017, Domino launched a wedding registry with gifts delivered in the form of Domino's eGift cards.[41] Customers have the option of signing up for Domino's pizza package to be served for the event.[42]

text: In March 2017, Domino's announced a pilot project in Dutch and German cities using delivery robots to deliver food within a one-mile radius of stores in partnership with Starship Technologies.[43]

text: Naming[edit]

text: In August 2012, Domino's Pizza changed their name to simply Domino's to emphasize their variety of non-pizza products such as chicken wings, apple pies, lasagna, and pasta. At the same time, Domino's introduced a new logo that removed the blue rectangle and text under the domino in the logo, and changed the formerly all-red domino to be blue on the side with two dots and red on the side with one dot.[44][45]

text: Products[edit]

text: The Domino's menu varies by region. The current Domino's menu in the United States features a variety of Italian-American main and side dishes. Pizza is the primary focus, with traditional, specialty, and custom pizzas available in a variety of crust styles and toppings. In 2011, Domino's launched artisan-style pizzas. Additional entrees include pasta, bread bowls, and oven-baked sandwiches. The menu offers chicken side dishes, breadsticks, as well as beverages and desserts.[46]

text: From its founding until the early 1990s, the menu at Domino's Pizza was kept simple relative to other fast food restaurants, to ensure efficiency of delivery.[47] Historically, Domino's menu consisted solely of one pizza in two sizes (12-inch and 16-inch), 11 toppings, and Coca-Cola as the only soft drink option.[48]

text: The first menu expansion occurred in 1989, with the debut of Domino's deep dish or pan pizza. Its introduction followed market research showing that 40% of pizza customers preferred thick crusts. The new product launch cost approximately $25 million, of which $15 million was spent on new sheet metal pans with perforated bottoms.[49] Domino's started testing extra-large size pizzas in early 1993, starting with the 30-slice, yard-long "The Dominator".[50]

text: Domino's tapped into a market trend toward bite-size foods with spicy Buffalo Chicken Kickers, as an alternative to Buffalo Wings, in August 2002. The breaded, baked, white-meat fillets, similar to chicken fingers, are packaged in a custom-designed box with two types of sauce to "heat up" and "cool down" the chicken.[51][52]

text: In August 2003, Domino's announced its first new pizza since January 2000, the Philly Cheese Steak Pizza. The product launch also marked the beginning of a partnership with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, whose beef Check-Off logo appeared in related advertising.[53] Domino's continued its move toward specialty pizzas in 2006, with the introduction of its Brooklyn Style Pizza, featuring a thinner crust, cornmeal baked in to add crispness, and larger slices that could be folded in the style of traditional New York-style pizza.[54]

text: In 2008, Domino's once again branched out into non-pizza fare, offering oven-baked sandwiches in four styles, intended to compete with Subway's toasted submarine sandwiches. Early marketing for the sandwiches made varied references to its competition, such as offering free sandwiches to customers named "Jared," a reference to Subway's spokesman of the same name.[55]

text: The company introduced its American Legends line of specialty pizzas in 2009, featuring 40% more cheese than the company's regular pizzas, along with a greater variety of toppings.[56] That same year, Domino's began selling its BreadBowl Pasta entree, a lightly seasoned bread bowl baked with pasta inside, and the Lava Crunch Cake dessert, composed of a crunchy chocolate shell filled with warm fudge.[57] Domino's promoted the dessert by flying in 1,000 cakes to deliver at Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center near Mount St. Helens in Washington state.[58]

text: In 2010, shortly after the company's 50th anniversary, Domino's changed its pizza recipe "from the crust up", making significant changes in the dough, sauce, and cheese used in their pizzas.[59] Their advertising campaign admitted to earlier problems with the public perception of Domino's product due to taste issues.[60][61]

text: In September 2012, Domino's announced it was going to roll out a pan pizza on September 24, 2012.[62] Following this move, the Deep Dish pizza was discontinued after 23 years of being on the menu.

text: In December 2013, Domino's Pizza, in Israel, unveiled its first vegan pizza, which uses a soy-based cheese substitute.[63][64]

text: After a stock low point in late 2009, the company's stock had risen 700 percent in the five years preceding February 2016.[65] Even as the American economy has suffered and unemployment has risen, Domino's has seen its sales rise dramatically through its efforts to rebrand and retool its pizza.[66]

text: In 2014, Domino's Pizza in Nigeria introduced the new Jollof Rice Pizza and The Beef Stew Pizza.

text: Beverages[edit]

text: Domino's serves Coca-Cola products and is the only "Big Four" pizza chain to do so. Rivals Papa John's Pizza and Little Caesars sold Coca-Cola in the past, but both switched to Pepsi, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Pizza Hut, due to its previous ownership by PepsiCo, has a contract to sell Pepsi products in perpetuity. Domino's Pizza in Mexico switched to Pepsi in November 2012 and Domino's Pizza in Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, Spain, New Zealand and Taiwan also serve.

text: Corporate governance[edit]

text: Domino's management is led by J. Patrick Doyle, CEO from March 2010, formerly president of Domino's USA. Previous chief executive Dave Brandon remains chairman.[67] Among 11 executive vice presidents are Jeffrey Lawrence, CFO; Stan Gage, Team USA; Scott Hinshaw, Franchise Operations and Development; and Kenneth Rollin, General Counsel.[68] Domino's operations are overseen by a board of directors led by Brandon. Other members of the board are J. Patrick Doyle, Andy Ballard, Andrew Balson, Diana Cantor, Richard Federico, James Goldman, Bud Hamilton, and Gregory Trojan.[69]

text: Charitable activities[edit]

text: In 2001, Domino's launched a two-year national partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. That same year, company stores in New York City and Washington D.C. provided more than 12,000 pizzas to relief workers following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Through a matching funds program, the corporation donated $350,000 to the American Red Cross' disaster relief effort.[16] In 2004, Domino's began a partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, participating in the hospital's "Thanks and Giving" campaign since the campaign began in 2004, and raising $5.2 million in 2014.[70]

text: Advertising[edit]

text: In the 1980s, Domino's was well known for its advertisements featuring the Noid. That concept was created by Group 243 Inc. who then hired Will Vinton Studios to produce the television commercials that they created. The catchphrase associated with the commercials was "Avoid the Noid." The Noid was discontinued after Kenneth Lamar Noid, believing the mascot to be an imitation of him, held two Domino's employees hostage in Chamblee, Georgia.[71] The employees escaped while Noid ate a pizza he had ordered.[72] Noid was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and acquitted due to insanity, and later committed suicide.[73][74] The Noid was briefly brought back for a week in 2011 in an arcade-style game on the Domino's Facebook page. The person with the top score received a coupon for a free pizza.[75]

text: Due to a glitch on the Domino's website, the company gave away nearly 11,000 free medium pizzas in March 2009. The company had planned the campaign for December 2008 but dropped the idea and never promoted it. The code was never deactivated, however, and resulted in the free giveaway of the pizzas across the United States after someone discovered the promotion on the website by typing in the word "bailout" as the promotion code and then shared it with others on the Internet. Domino's deactivated the code on the morning of March 31, 2009, and promised to reimburse store owners for the pizzas.[76]

text: Domino's sponsored CART's Doug Shierson Racing, which was driven by Arie Luyendyk and won the 1990 Indianapolis 500. In 2003, Domino's teamed up with NASCAR for a multi-year partnership to become the "Official Pizza of NASCAR."[77] Domino's also sponsored Michael Waltrip Racing and driver David Reutimann during the 2007 season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

text: 30-minute guarantee[edit]

text: Starting in 1973, Domino's Pizza had a guarantee that customers would receive their pizzas within 30 minutes of placing an order or they would receive the pizzas free. The guarantee was reduced to $3 off in the mid-1980s. In 1992, the company settled a lawsuit brought by the family of an Indiana woman who had been killed by a Domino's delivery driver, paying the family $2.8 million. In another 1993 lawsuit, brought by a woman who was injured when a Domino's delivery driver ran a red light and collided with her vehicle, the woman was awarded nearly $80 million but accepted a payout of $15 million.[78] The guarantee was dropped that same year because of the "public perception of reckless driving and irresponsibility", according to then-CEO Tom Monaghan.[78]

text: In December 2007, Domino's introduced a new slogan, "You Got 30 Minutes," alluding to the earlier pledge but stopping short of promising delivery in half an hour.[79]

text: The company continues to offer the 30-minute guarantee for orders placed in its stores situated in Colombia, Vietnam, Mexico, China, and Turkey.

text: In Malaysia and Singapore, a refund is instead substituted with a "Free Regular Pizza Voucher".[80][81]

text: In India, the guarantee is for ₹300 ($5) and is valid for an order of less than 4 pizzas.

text: Franchises[edit]

text: Domino's Pizza currently has locations in 75 countries. It has its stores in 5,701 cities worldwide (2,900 international and 2,800 in the US). Domino's had approximately 11,000 stores as of the first quarter of 2014, with 774 in the UK, 4,986 in the US, and 1010 in India.[82][83] In most cases, Domino's has master franchise agreements with one company per country, but three companies have acquired multiple master franchise agreements, covering multiple countries:

text:
The rights to own, operate, and franchise branches of the chain in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Monaco are currently owned by Australian Domino's Pizza Enterprises, having bought the master franchises from the parent company in 1993 (Australian and New Zealand franchises) and 2006 (European franchises).
The master franchises for the UK and Ireland were purchased in 1993 by the British publicly listed Domino's Pizza Group, which acquired the master franchise for Germany in 2011 and Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg in August 2012 by buying the Swiss master franchise holder, with an option to acquire the Austrian master franchise as well. Sweden opened its first Domino's near the Mobilia shopping mall in Malmö in December 2016.[84][85][86]
The master franchises for India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, are currently owned by the Indian company Jubilant FoodWorks. India is the largest international market for Domino's outside its home market. The company operates 1004 stores across 230 Indian cities as of February 11, 2016. Apart from the United States, India is the only country that has over 1000 Domino's outlets. Indian pizza flavors such as paneer pizza, chicken tikka masala pizza, and kheema do pyaza pizza have been sold in other international markets.
In February 2015, cockroaches and rodent droppings found in the kitchens of some Domino's Pizza joints in Peru have caused the company to shut temporarily operations in the country[87][88] until August 28, 2016.[89]

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