Pop Gem #91: Samantha Mumba – Gotta Tell You

We celebrate Samantha Mumba's debut single as the ultimate Noughties track.
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Each week we ask for your nominations for our Pop Gem Hall Of Fame – a magical place containing pop's best overlooked classics or its biggest hits of yesteryear.

This week's theme was the NOUGHTIES, that Double-0 decade where everyone had poker-straight hair, loved a bandana, had bare midriffs as far as the eye could see and dance routines were tight.

After much deliberation, we got it down to this final 10:

ARTIST TRACK PEAK POSITION YEAR
MR HUDSON SUPERNOVA 2 2009
SATURDAYS UP 5 2008
AVRIL LAVIGNE GIRLFRIEND 2 2007
INFERNAL FROM PARIS TO BERLIN 2 2006
MOUSSE T FT EMMA LANFORD IS IT 'COS I'M COOL? 9 2004
ANNIE CHEWING GUM 25 2004
GIRLS ALOUD NO GOOD ADVICE 2 2003
LIBERTY X JUST A LITTLE 1 2002
DANIEL BEDINGFIELD GOTTA GET THRU THIS 1 2001
SAMANTHA MUMBA GOTTA TELL YOU 2 2000

As the title of the page might suggest, there can be only one winner and today it had to be Samantha Mumba, who else? Watch the video for Gotta Tell You before we explain ourselves…

Why it had to be Samantha Mumba

Irish singing sensation Samantha is, sadly, one act you really don't hear on the radio any more. She's not released any music for a while, but during her career, she released some cracking singles, and any one of them could have been a worthy Pop Gem winner. Remember Body II Body, for example?

Gotta Tell You was La Mumba's very first hit. It peaked at Number 2 in summer 2000, and has sold 260,000 copies in the UK.

Samantha's chart history

Samantha scored six Top 10s: Gotta Tell You, Body II Body, Always Come Back To Your Love, Baby Come On over, Lately and I'm Right Here. Only one track missed the Top 5.

Over on the Official Albums Chart, Samantha's debut album – also called Gotta Tell You – went Top 10. Samantha pursued a movie career after pop and was most recently seen on Irish TV show The Hit, which gave her a Top 5 song in her home country.

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Welcome to the Hall Of Fame, Samantha!

See who she beat

Check out all this week's finalists in our video playlist.

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