This week 20 years ago on the pop music charts…the British record buying public goes Craaaaaaaayyyyyyyzzzaaaaaaayyyyyyyy for Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley project while gossip-lovers everywhere wonder about what Mike Skinner and Cheryl Cole might have got involved in.

Elsewhere, more nails are put in the landfill indie coffin as The Automatic and Milburn debut and we get two of the strangest novelty records we’ve heard so far in our journey through the UK top 40s of the 2000s.All this and more on the pop music history/nostalgia podcast where every week we’re reliving the 40 biggest selling songs from this week 20 years ago and telling the story of all the new releases.

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