![]() ![]() By the end of the summer, its total had grown to 731,000.Īnother huge song of the summer in 1998 was the debut single by brand new girl group (who were also Irish) B*Witched, C'est La Vie. No Matter What was the group's fourth chart-topper, shifting a massive 278,000 copies in its first week on sale. Successful boy bands were hard to come by in 1998 - the whirlwind megastardom of the Spice Girls had spawned a flurry of girl groups in the UK - but the Irish five piece were bucking the trend. That ballad was Boyzone's No Matter What, a song that was written and produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman for the musical Whistle Down The Wind two years before Boyzone recorded their radio friendly version. 1998, the year Titanic took over the world (and the charts), England dramatically crashed out of the World Cup in France to Argentina, and little known artist Cher scored a massive worldwide Number 1 hit.Įven by UK standards, 1998 didn't have the warmest of summers (in fact it was one of the worst on record), which in turn appears to have had an effect on the country's music buying habits of the season - the summer's biggest selling single was a ballad. ![]()
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