With the Round of Rounds, the British girls from Sugababes had their first big Dutch hit 20 years ago, coming close to reaching number 1.

Number 2 hits come in all shapes and sizes. Some are now almost forgotten, others have achieved all-time status, despite not being able to reach the coveted number 1 position in the Dutch Top 40.

This week exactly 20 years ago the most successful British girl group in Dutch Top 40 history made the list with their first major direct hit. Round Round. And it’s not the Spice Girls.

Sugababes was founded at a very young age by the girls Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy. When they scored their first hit in 2000 with overload their average age is 16 years. Record label London Records wanted to make the Sugababes the new All Saints and commissioned British songwriter and producer Cameron McVey to write songs for them. McVey produced Neneh’s debut album Cherry Raw Like Sushi. He is his life partner and father of Mabel and Marlon Roudette. Apart from All Saints, he has also worked with Massive Attack and Portishead. Despite the reasonable success of Overload (UK top 10 and number 14 in the Top 40), One Touch’s first album produced several hit singles. London Records discontinued with Sugababes and Siobhán Donaghy left the group. He was replaced by Heidi Range. This blonde singer from Liverpool was one of the first members of Atomic Kitten before they became famous. Now Sugababes have found refuge with Island Records. The first single for their second album Angels With Dirty Faces is Weird like me, a cover by American R&B singer Adina Howard. The song contains examples What is Electric Friend? from Gary Numan’s Tubeway Army. The single reached number 1 in the UK Top 40 on 4 May 2002, something Gary Newman also achieved in 1979 with Are Friends Electric. In our country this single reached number 23. The second single from their Angels album is not long in coming.

British producer Brian Higgins has written and produced many hits for Girls Aloud and S Club 7. In 1998 he co-wrote the number 1 hit worldwide. believes from Cher. Together with his song partner Miranda Cooper, he formed the producing team Xenomania and they wrote Round Round for the Sugababes. As a basis they used the sample ‘Tango Forte’ by Dublex Inc from 2001, a team of electronics producers from Germany who are also mentioned in the credits. Brian Higgens was very pleased with the results. The electronics and guitar blend together with tempo changes and melodic shifts. The chorus of Round Round written by song partners Miranda Cooper and Sugababes completes the song lyrically.

In their own country it was hit again, it became the second UK number 1 hit for the Sugababes. In our country, Round Round entered the Dutch Top 40 at number 25 on September 7, 2002. Four weeks later, Sugababes was one week at number 2 behind another girl group, Las Ketchup Sisters, with a summer hit that year. . Soy Sauce (Asereje). Continued success, because of the successor Stronger also became a huge hit and was in the Top 40 for 17 weeks. Angels With Dirty Faces album gave the girls no less than 3 Dutch top 10 hits.

In the following years, Sugababes continued their success with big hits like hole in head (which also hit number 2) and Press the button, which became their biggest hit in our country. At that time, Mutya Buena, who had already become a mother, left the group and began a solo career a year later. The only hit Real Girl (with example It’s not over until it’s over by Lenny Kravitz) took sixth place on 7 July 2007. Her place at Sugababes has meanwhile been taken by Amelle Berrabah. red dress was the first hit with him as the new Sugababe and became their last top 10 hit in our country.

Sugababes had a fairly successful period with 15 Dutch Top 40 hits, 9 of which were in the top 10. In their own country, their results are even more impressive: 26 Top 40 hits, 18 of them in the top 10 and no less than 6 at number 1. The pop trio has remained one of the leading figures for more than ten years, across various line-ups. girl group from England.

Lap Lap was number 2 for the week from October 5, 2002 behind Song Kecap (Asereje)