Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble back in time to 1994!

With PJ and Duncan headed for Number 1 this weekend, we look back at the Official Singles Chart when Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble first made its Top 10 debut 19 some years ago.

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Ant and Dec’s Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble is STILL leading the race to Number 1.

Following their performance on ITV’s Saturday Night Take Away last weekend, the TV duo’s 1994 Top 10 hit has rocketing up the Official Singles Chart. It is currently outselling P!nk FT Nate Ruess’s Just Give Me A Reason (Number 2) by 10,000 copies, and if it can maintain its lead up to midnight on Saturday when the Official Singles Chart closes, the pair will bag their first ever Official Number 1!

But what did the Official Singles Chart look - and sound - like when Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble first entered the Top 10 on July 31, 1994?

Well, Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble debuted on the Official Singles Chart two weeks before that at Number 18, climbing to Number 11 the following week. When the track arrived in the Top 10, Wet Wet Wet were ten weeks into their 15 week stand at Number 1 with their cover of The Troggs’ Love Is All Around (the joint third longest run at Number 1 in chart history). Ant and Dec would later appear in the film Love Actually - as themselves – interviewing failed pop star Billy Mack (played by Bill Nighy) who was trying to resurrect his career with a cover entitled Christmas Is All Around. "That's right Ant or Dec!"

All-4-One’s I Swear (Number 2), The BC-52’s (Meet) The Flintstones (Number 3), and Let Loose’s Crazy For You (Number 4) remained static for a second week, while China Black’s Searching climbed two from Number 7 to Number 5. Warren G and Nate Dogg’s Regulate fell one place to Number 6, Aswad’s Shine was up one place from Number 7 to Number 8, and Maxx’s No More (I Can’t Stand It) completed that week’s Top 10.

If, like many younger chart fans, Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble is new to you, or if, like us, you fondly remember watching PJ and Duncan 'wreck the mic… Watch [them] wreck the mic...Psyche!', then check out our Spotify and Deezer playlists of the Official Singles Chart Top 10 from July 31, 1994 below:

(Sadly, The BC-52’s aren’t available on streaming services, so we’ll have to make do with sound-alikes.)