If you’re going to be held off the top spot by somebody, it might as well be Cher, and Steps were the third act to be pipped at the post by Believe. Watch Cher’s triumphant classic before we count down the rest of the retro Top 5 this week in 1998. It has gone on to shift over 1.7 million copies and is the biggest selling single by a female solo artist in the UK ever. Believe would sell an incredible 1 million copies by the end of the year and was the best selling single of 1998. Cher refused to budge from Number 1 for an astonishing SEVEN weeks. Thanks to a deadly combination of a word-famous singing megastar, a dance beat and some serious auto-tune effects, a hit was born.īelieve stormed straight into the top of the Official Singles Chart in October 1998 and this week back in ’98 it was halfway through its impressive run. Cher was back! Back! BACK! And she meant business. And so did the record-buying public (you, basically). Ladies and gentlemen, do you Believe in life after love? Cher did. Brian and his crack team of songwriting boffins – who would go on to work with a plethora of popstars including Girls Aloud and The Saturdays – worked away to create an instant classic, but few could have foreseen just how big the track was going to be. So with that in mind, the pop legend teamed up with Brian Higgins, who’d just enjoyed success with the might Dannii Minogue and her Number 4 hit from 1997, All I Wanna Do.
