Number 1 this week in 2004: McFly's debut single 5 Colours In Her Hair hits the top spot

Cast your mind back to 2004. It was the year that X Factor first hit our screens, Linsday Lohan gave us quoteable lines for days in Mean Girls, and Facebook first came to being (although you were probably still re-ordering your top friends on Myspace). 

It was also the year when four lads Tom, Danny, Dougie and Harry calling themselves McFly burst onto the scene with their debut single 5 Colours In Her Hair, which debuted straight in at Number 1 13 years ago this week.

With Busted moments away calling it a day, McFly were a welcome replacement for those in need of a jaunty pop-rock fix. In fact, with one of the Busted boys (James Bourne) co-writing their songs and the band working the same scruffy sk8er boi look (#indieamnesty), initially it was difficult to separate the two bands. 

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5 Colours In Her Hair debuted at Number 1 with first week sales of 49,511. Remember, music sales were low across the board in 2004 due to the sharp increase in illegal downloading, though the imminent launch of iTunes was about to change all that. The track knocked Usher's Yeah! off the top spot after a two-week stint at the summit. 

5 Colours' lifetime figure stands at 249,000, including streaming equivalent sales. A lot of you are still loving it; in last week alone, it notched up 54,500  plays on streaming services and eight of you downloaded it. 

See what else was in the Top 10 that week below, and click the image to see the full Top 100: 

Another notable entry in the Official Singles Chart that week came from Atomic Kitten. After deciding to call time, the trio released their farewell single - a double A-side of Someone Like Me and a re-working of their debut single Right Now that became their 12th Top 10 hit. 

Elsewhere in the Top 40 this week 12 years ago, Pet Shop Boys landed just outside the Top 10 with Flamboyant, and Scissor Sisters' Take Your Mama made its first mark on the chart at Number 18, just ahead of Alicia Keys' If I Ain't Got You at 19.

Listen to the UK Top 40 from this week in 1997 below and subscribe to our weekly Flashback playlist on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music or click the image below:

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