"the song reached its peak position of number two, behind Wet Wet Wet's runaway hit ""Love Is All Around"". It dropped to number three the next week, then spent four more weeks at that position before falling to number four on September 11. Afterwards, it remained in the chart for a further seven weeks before dropping out of the top 50 on November 6. It finished 1994 as Australia's 11th best-selling single, the second best-selling number-two hit of the year behind Bon Jovi's ""Always"". It has since received a Platinum certification from ARIA for sales exceeding 70,000 copies. ""Billboard"" wrote"
"by Barry Manilow. Singer Marti Pellow related that the decision to pick ""Love is All Around"" was an easy choice ""because we knew we could make it our own"". The song, which has a different introduction from the Troggs' version, was recorded in B flat major on 4 January 1994 and released in May. On 15 May 1994, ""Love Is All Around"" entered the UK Singles Chart at number four. After climbing to number two the following week, it finally got to number one on 29 May. It then remained there for 15 weeks, the second-longest UK chart reign of"
"Love Is All Around ""Love Is All Around"" is a song recorded by English rock band the Troggs, featuring a string quartet and a 'tick tock' sound on percussion, in D-major. It was written by lead singer Reg Presley and was purportedly inspired by a television transmission of the Joy Strings Salvation Army band's ""Love That's All Around"". The song was first released as a single in the UK in October 1967, peaking at number 5. On the Hot 100, the record entered at number 98 on 24 February 1968, peaked at number 7 on 18 May 1968, was on"
"Is All Around"", from the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". It would remain at number 1 for fifteen weeks, the second longest consecutive run at No. 1 ever in the UK Singles Chart, and become the biggest selling single of the year. When Danish singer Whigfield replaced it in September with ""Saturday Night"", she became the first ever act to enter the UK singles chart at No.1 with their debut single. Manchester rockers Oasis found their success on their debut album, ""Definitely Maybe"", which shot to number No. 1 on its first week out in September. December saw the"
"Mercury's close friend and advisor, Capital London radio DJ Kenny Everett, played a pivotal role in giving the single exposure. It is the third-best-selling single of all time in the UK, surpassed only by Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" and Elton John's ""Candle in the Wind 1997"", and is the best-selling commercial single (i.e. ""not"" for-charity) in the UK. It also reached number nine in the United States (a 1992 re-release reached number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for five weeks). It is the only single ever to sell a million copies on two separate occasions, and"
"crossover stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Nashville—and rightly so. The tune has a simple, but killer hook that is matched by a jumpy, rave-coated rhythm section and chirpy female vocals."" ""Saturday Night"" was released in the United Kingdom on September 5, 1994, and went straight to number one - dethroning Wet Wet Wet's 15 week chart-topper ""Love Is All Around"", despite that single increasing its sales from 65,000 the previous week to 104,000, when ""Saturday Night"" entered at number 1 with sales of 150,000. Whigfield were the first act to enter at number one in the United Kingdom charts"
"the end of 1993. The eighteen-song selection included ""Shed a Tear"" and ""Cold Cold Heart"", which were recorded with Nile Rodgers in New York City especially for the album and released as singles. In 1994, Wet Wet Wet had their biggest hit, a cover version of The Troggs' single ""Love Is All Around"", which was used on the soundtrack to the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. The week before it could have equalled the record for the longest-standing number-one single, held by Bryan Adams' ""(Everything"
"Nicole Kidman/Noah Taylor movie, ""Flirting"". It is also featured in ""Shine"", ""The Good Night"" and ""The Boat That Rocked"". In 1991, ""Love Is All Around"" was covered by R.E.M. during live performances and was released later that year as a B-side on their ""Radio Song"" single. They also performed an acoustic version of the song on ""MTV Unplugged"". In 1994, Scottish band Wet Wet Wet's version of ""Love Is All Around"" spent 15 weeks at number one in the UK after its inclusion in ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". The authorship royalties enabled Reg Presley's 1990s research and publication on"
"best-selling single of all-time (eclipsing the Beatles' own ""She Loves You"") until overtaken by Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" in 1984 (which also featured McCartney on the B-side). The song remains the UK's best-selling completely non-charity single, having sold 2.09 million copies. (Queen's ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" has sold more in its two releases, but the profits of the 1991 release were donated to charity.) The millionth copy of the disc sold in the UK included a special certificate. It was sold to David Ackroyd, who was presented with a gold disc of the single by Laine. Despite its international"
"Reg Presley Reginald Maurice Ball (12 June 1941 – 4 February 2013), known professionally as Reg Presley, was an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer with the 1960s rock and roll band the Troggs, the hits of which included ""Wild Thing"" (#1 on the Hot 100 on 30 July - 6 August 1966) and ""With a Girl Like You"" (#1 on the UK Official Singles Chart on 4-11 August 1966). He wrote the song ""Love Is All Around"", which was featured in the films ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" and ""Love Actually"". Presley, whose stage name was given to"
"of which were accepted. The original score was composed by British composer Richard Rodney Bennett. The movie also featured a soundtrack of popular songs, including a cover version of The Troggs' ""Love Is All Around"" performed by Wet Wet Wet that remained at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for fifteen weeks and was then the ninth (now twelfth) biggest selling single of all time in Britain. This song would later be adapted into ""Christmas Is All Around"" and sung by the character of Billy Mack in Richard Curtis' 2003 film ""Love Actually"", in which Grant also stars. The"
"are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit ""Love Is All Around"", which was used on the soundtrack to the film ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"". It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. One week before potentially equalling the record for the most consecutive weeks at number 1 on the UK singles chart, held by Bryan Adams' ""(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"", it dropped to number two. The quartet formed at Clydebank High School in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1982, under the name ""Vortex Motion"", mostly playing"
"Love Is All Around (Agnes Carlsson song) ""Love Is All Around"" is a song by Agnes Carlsson, who was the winner of Swedish Idol 2005. The song was composed by Fredrik Thomander and Anders Wikström. It has been covered in at least 3 other continents. ""Love Is All Around"" was covered by Australian singer-songwriter, Ricki-Lee Coulter. It served as the second single released from her second album ""Brand New Day"" on November 10, 2007. It debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at number five. The music video was directed by Fin Edquist and filmed at the Ferris Wheel in Birrarung"
"Is All Around"". The album reached No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart when released in 1993 and eventually made it to No. 1 when it re-entered the chart in 1994 following the success of ""Love Is All Around"". † ""Edited to replace the line ""don't waste my fucking spirit'"" with ""don't waste my angry spirit""; however, Apple's iTunes Match database replaces the censored lyric with the expletive version in their sync with a user's collection. A limited-edition release, entitled ""End of Part One: Their Greatest Hits... And Things"", included a bonus CD: An imported edition, entitled ""Part One"", was"
"13-year-old record held by Band Aid's ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"" It has been certified as the best-selling single of all time in the UK, and has sold 4.94 million copies in the UK as of September 2017. The chart success in the United States was similar. Released on 22 September 1997, ""Candle in the Wind 1997"" debuted at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, with first week sales at 3.5 million copies. The album/single stayed at the top of the charts for 14 consecutive weeks, a record for a male solo artist. It has the biggest sales for"
"""Enjoy Yourself"" (1989). ""Spinning Around"" was Minogue's fifth number one single in the United Kingdom. Minogue became one of only two artists to have a number one single in three consecutive decades, achieving this in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. The other artist to hold this distinction is Madonna, whose song ""American Pie"" topped the UK singles chart in March 2000. ""Spinning Around"" charted inside the top ten for two weeks and inside the top forty for eight weeks. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certified the song silver for shipments of 200,000 units. As of March 2014, the single has"
"described as ""an urbanised version"" of the Agnes Carlsson original. Jody's version is all also differs largely in length, being the longest of all covers of the song so far. ""Love Is All Around"" was released as a CD single a day after Jody won South African Idols. It was sold out on the first day and accumalated Gold status in South Africa after selling 30,000 copies. The song also reached #1 on AF Stereo's ""South African Airplay Chart"" Love Is All Around (Agnes Carlsson song) ""Love Is All Around"" is a song by Agnes Carlsson, who was the winner"
"1997 hit ""All Around the World"", clocking in at 9 minutes and 20 seconds. In the UK, this was the biggest hit of 1993, selling 761,200 copies and staying at number one for seven weeks. As a result of its success, ""Bat Out of Hell"" was reissued in the UK, this time reaching the top ten (which it did not achieve on its first release in 1979), meaning Meat Loaf achieved the rare feat of having two singles in the UK top ten at the same time. In Germany, the song is the 7th best-selling pop hymn ever. Critical reaction"
"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"
"""Music & Me"". ""Doggin' Around"" is also the title of a 1994 BBC ""Screen One"" production written by Alan Plater and was later used as the title of Plater's autobiography. Doggin' Around ""Doggin' Around"" is a 1960 song written by Lena Agree and originally performed by Jackie Wilson. Reaching both the R&B and the pop singles charts in the U.S., ""Doggin' Around"" hit number one on the Hot R&B Sides chart for three weeks and peaked at number fifteen on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The A-side of the single was ""Night"", based on the aria ""My Heart at Thy Sweet"
"performed by a church choir. It also played in a season two episode of ""Orphan Black"" and included on the TV show's official soundtrack. R.E.M. also covered ""Love Is All Around"" for the soundtrack to the film ""I Shot Andy Warhol"". Australian band Human Nature covered the song on their 2018 album ""Romance of the Jukebox"". Love Is All Around ""Love Is All Around"" is a song recorded by English rock band the Troggs, featuring a string quartet and a 'tick tock' sound on percussion, in D-major. It was written by lead singer Reg Presley and was purportedly inspired by"
"Is All Around"" was named as the number one song in VH1's ""The Ultimate Movie Soundtrack: Top 100"". Prior to achieving international success with their single ""These Eyes"", ""Love Is All Around"" was covered by The Guess Who around 1967/68, and is available on compilation album ""This Time Long Ago"". The song was also covered by Lotta Engbergs orkester as ""Du ger mig av din kärlek"" with Swedish lyrics written by Peter Stedt in 1994 while the Spanish rendering ""El Amor Me Envuelve (Sabes Que Te Amo)"" was recorded by Rocío Banquells for her 1999 album ""Fuerza Del Amor"". Other"
"both Ireland and the United Kingdom in October/November 1995. In the UK, the song was held off the top spot by ""I Believe"" by Robson & Jerome. It finished at No. 10 in the end of year charts for 1995 and No. 26 in the end of decade charts for the 1990s in the UK. It has sold 1.34 million copies in the UK as of October 2016, making it Oasis' biggest selling song in their homeland and the third biggest seller never to top the UK Singles Chart. In the U.S., it peaked at number one on the Modern"
"million copies around the world. It was certified three-times Platinum in the United Kingdom and Platinum and Gold in various countries, including Platinum in the United States for selling over one million copies. The album reached top ten around the globe, including number one in Austria and Italy. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number two and in the United States, it reached number nine. ""Affection"" is Stansfield's most successful album. During the 1990 Brit Awards, Stansfield was nominated for four Brit Awards: British Breakthrough, British Female Solo, British Single (""All Around the World"") and Best Video (""All Around"
"1994 in British music This is a summary of 1994 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. The first number 1 single of the year was the 700th since charts began, a reggae version of ""Twist and Shout"" by Chaka Demus & Pliers. The next month saw Mariah Carey get her first (and, to date, only) solo UK number 1 with ""Without You"", after having 8 previous chart-toppers in the United States. Coincidentally, ""Without You"" did not top the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. In late May, Wet Wet Wet reached number 1 with ""Love"
"Donna Lewis Donna Lewis is a Welsh singer-songwriter and record producer from Cardiff, Wales. She is best known for the 1996 pop hit single ""I Love You Always Forever"", which peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, and also peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States. In the United States, ""I Love You Always Forever"" peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for nine weeks, having been held off the summit by the Bayside Boys Remix of ""Macarena"" by Los Del Rio."
"Falling in Love,"" ""Round and Round"" and ""Set Me Free"". Brought up in Handsworth and educated in Ladywood, she was spotted by a talent scout singing for a jazz-funk band in.1983. By the end of the 1980s she was established as the most successful Black British female artist of all time, and the first to have six consecutive Top 20 hits. Success in the United States followed with her single ""Ain't Nobody"" spending five weeks at number 1 in the US dance charts in 1994. Also brought up in Handsworth was Ruby Turner, the granddaughter of a noted Jamaican Gospel"
"Love Is All Around (album) Love Is All Around is a studio album by Eric Burdon and War (credited as ""War featuring Eric Burdon"" on the original edition). Released in 1976 on ABC Records, it contains tracks recorded during the band's brief existence from 1969 to 1971, but not found on their two albums from 1970. Many years later it was reissued on CD by Avenue Records; this edition restores the original group name, Eric Burdon and War. Only two tracks had been released previously: ""Magic Mountain"" was the B-side to ""Spill the Wine""; and ""Home Dream"", though performed by"
"Hot 100, as well as spending 19 weeks on the UK singles chart. ""I Get Lonely"" peaked at number three on the Hot 100. ""The Velvet Rope"" sold over ten million albums worldwide and was certified three times platinum by the RIAA. Céline Dion achieving worldwide success with the song My Heart Will Go On from Titanic soundtrack. In the early 1990s, Mariah Carey's hit singles such as ""Vision of Love"" (1990) and ""Love Takes Time"" (1990), and Whitney Houston's ""All the Man That I Need"" (1990) and ""I Will Always Love You"" (1992) topped the radio charts for the"
"The Troggs The Troggs (originally called the Troglodytes) are an English garage rock band formed in Andover, Hampshire in May 1964. They had a number of hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Their most famous songs include the US chart-toppers ""Wild Thing"", ""With a Girl Like You"" and ""Love Is All Around"", all of which sold over 1 million copies and were awarded gold discs. ""Wild Thing"" is ranked #257 on the ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was an influence on garage rock and punk rock. Reg Presley (lead"
"is ""Anything Is Possible/Evergreen"" by Will Young, which sold 1.11 million copies in its first week on sale. Publicity had built up due to the televised talent contest ""Pop Idol"" with 8.7 million people phoning in to vote for the finalists. The fastest selling single by a British group is the Spice Girls ""2 Become 1"" which sold over 462,000 copies during its first week on sale and over 763,000 copies in a fortnight. In total, the single sold over 1.1 million copies to date. The fastest number one single music act and band is Westlife with its first seven"
"Chart for six weeks from March 1975. It ended the year as the UK's top selling single. The Four Seasons' version is quite sparse in instrumental backing, instead carried by the vocals, while the Bay City Rollers' version is faster and has a fuller backing sound. Played a whole step lower, it includes an eight-bar guitar solo by Eric Faulkner, which is not present in the original. In the film ""Love Actually"", the song is played by Daniel (Liam Neeson) at his wife's funeral, and by the DJ (Junior Simpson) at Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter's (Chiwetel Ejiofor) wedding reception."
"Round and Around (Jaki Graham song) ""Round and Around"" is the fourth solo single release from British singer Jaki Graham, following her previous single, a duet with David Grant, ""Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"". It was the third single taken from her debut studio album, ""Heaven Knows"". ""Round and Around"" was released in June 1985 and peaked inside the UK Singles Chart at number 9, spending a total of 11 weeks inside the UK top 75. The song was also released in the US, peaking at number 85 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in November 1985."