This week on the podcast celebrating the pop music of the 2000s via the top 40s from this time 20 years ago we learn:

-Why Pink bought a sex doll dressed as Christina Aguilera on stage during her 2004 tour

-Which indie songs sound best on a music box

-Which boyband member won 'party mentalist of the year' at the 2002 Smash Hits Awards

-What Maggot from Goldie Lookin' Chain/Celebrity Big Brother is doing now - and why the band had to apologise to Charlotte Church

-Which dance act used a 56-piece mouse choir and the sound of dolphins [citation needed]

-The story of how I ended up singing Angels with Fame Academy reject and 2004 UK Eurovision entrant James Fox

-Which '80s prog rock band invented crowdfunding

-Fun facts about Gibraltar

All that plus 2000s nostalgic fun and music from Armand van Helden, The Bees, Breed 77, Franz Ferdinand, Goldie Lookin' Chain, James Fox, Lasgo, Marillion, Maroon 5, OceanLab and Pink

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On this week's episode of the podcast reliving the top 40 singles chart from this time 20 years ago:

• How the Super Bowl 'nipplegate' destroyed Janet Jackson's pop career
• Why Agnetha from ABBA took at 15 year break from the music industry
• Which pop star wrote a love song from the perspective of drugs (and was a recorder prodigy)
• What Eamon's 'F**k It (I Don't Want You Back) sounds like in Italian
• How Justin Timberlake ruined JC Chasez's career
• Which band described their own album as 'f***in awful'

Plus iconic 2004 jams from Agnetha Falkskog, Joe, D12, JC Chasez, Eamon, Beta Band, Janet Jackson, Dido, Hillary Duff, Snow Patrol and Bellefire

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The podcast where every week we're reliving the UK top 40 from 20 years ago is back with another week of classic pop songs from 2004 courtesy of Beyoncé, Big Brovaz, G-Unit, Michelle McManus, Narcotic Thrust, The Ordinary Boys, The Rasmus, Sharlene Hector, Special D, Wiley and The Zutons.

All that plus:

• The great Coca-Cola Dasani debacle of 2004 and what it had to do with the pop charts
• Why Flawless was kicked out of Big Brovaz for a very ironic reason
• Why Donna Summer channels Marilyn Monroe when she needs to do sexy vocals
• Wiley's view on garage

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Do do do-do do DO! This week four young boys (only some of whom are rejects from the band V) called McFly make their first mark on the charts. A good day for boy bands is a band one for girl bands however as Atomic Kitten call it a day with perhaps the laziest goodbye song ever released by a major band.

Also on the podcast this week, we learn:

*Why Norah Jones' only UK top 40 was clearly recorded after an "all night bonk sesh"

*Why JC Chasez flopped and Justin Timberlake succeeded

*Who holds the world record for the fastest rap

*Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters' hilarious and tragic coming out story

*Who the 10 most-played artists of all time on UK radio are

All this plus music from Alicia Keys, Atomic Kitten, Basement Jaxx, Dilated Peoples, McFly, Norah Jones, Pet Shop Boys, Scissor Sisters, Simply Red and Twista

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Important information about the 2000s you can learn from this episode of The 2000s Chart Show:

*Which character Lee Ryan from Blue played in the Italian dub of the Ice Age movies

*Why Anastacia always wears tinted sunglasses

*How the Sugababes' press team avoided speculation that they were breaking up in 2004

*Whether any good songs have ever come out of Southampton

*Why Simon from Blue Peter is on my nemesis list

All that plus 'new' (aka old from 2004) music from Anastacia, Blue, The Darkness, Delays, The Divine Comedy, Kanye West, Missy Elliott, OutKast, Sugababes and Travis on the podcast where every week we're celebrating the music of the 2000s one UK top 40 singles chart at a time.

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One of 2004's biggest pop scandals begins as Brian McFadden quits Westlife "to spend more time with his family"...only to leave his wife months later.

In this week's edition of the pop music podcast celebrating the music of the 2000s one UK top 40 singles chart at a time...Marvin Humes makes his chart debut years before JLS as part of a flop band 'managed' by Simon Webbe...Brian Molko of Placebo and 50 Cent give some of the best interviews of 2004...Lemar throws even more shade at Alex Parks... and Elbow causes an influx in UFO sightings

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This week on the music podcast where every week we're celebrating the music of the 00s one singles chart at a time: Katie Melua and Jamie Cullum put the 'cat' into 'caterwauling' with their Brits version of The Lovecats; VH1 viewers vote for their worst number ones of all time (and 2004 gets DESTROYED); Alex Parks' secret career writing for European popstars revealed; A Byker Grove star tries to become a pop star.

All this plus 'new' (for 2004) music from: Alex Parks, Belle and Sebastian, Busted, Clea, Deepest Blue, Hundred Reasons, Keane, Luther Vandross, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Raghav, The Stils, Summer Matthews, and Yeovil Town FC (!)

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