Finnish singles chart #1s: 1998
Good news everyone, I've completed another year in my run through the Finnish singles chart #1s.
>> Go check it out! (1998 starts about 3/4 down this page) <<
1998 is a funny year. A handful of mega hits completely dominated the year in charts and that means it has a relatively few #1s compared to adjacent years. These include Apulanta's "Teit meistä kauniin" which held the #1 position for 19 weeks, which is still a record in Finnish chart history. A few other songs also had 5-6 week chart runs, and so there wasn't much space for other songs to squeeze through. But the charts again highlight just how dominant Finnish alt rock had become, with BFFs Apulanta and Tehosekoitin basically swapping the #1 position between each other multiple times.
Flint's Top 5 Hits of 1997
- Madonna - Frozen
- Apulanta - Teit meistä kauniin
- Tehosekoitin - Pakko päästä pois
- Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (yes really)
- E-Type - Here I Go Again
The Trash Can Award for the Worst #1 of the Year (AKA the Metallica Award): Metallica - Unforgiven II
Up next - the wild waters of 1999.