Shortlist for Official Charts Pop Gem #57: Covers

We’ve been asking for your favourite secondhand songs – are you sitting on a Pop Gem?

Every week we ask for your Pop Gems, those tracks that were big news back in the day, but are somewhat overshadowed, these days, be it thanks to the passage of time or bigger hits eclipsing them.

This week, we wanted your cover versions, songs that were either hits for or recorded by somebody else way before the version you liked hit the charts. Which secondhand songs were your Pop Gems?

As usual, things got heated at Official Charts HQ when it came to drawing up a shortlist. You’ve no idea how close we were to putting Samantha Fox’s I Only Wanna Be With You on it.

Once we’d been separated from each other’s throats, we settle on 12 of the great and the good and the downright Pop-Gemulous.

If some of them don’t seem so familiar – that is the idea of Pop Gem, after all – then feast your eyes on our video playlist down the page. Go on, you know you want to!

ARTIST	TRACK	PEAK POSITION	YEAR
SATURDAYS	JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH	2	2009
KLAXONS	IT'S NOT OVER YET	13	2007
MARK RONSON FT LILY ALLEN	OH MY GOD	8	2007
FREEMASONS FT BAILEY TZUKE	UNINVITED	8	2007
NO DOUBT	IT'S MY LIFE	17	2004
KELLY LLORENNA	TELL IT TO MY HEART	9	2002
ALL SAINTS	UNDER THE BRIDGE	1	1998
MICA PARIS	ONE	29	1995
PET SHOP BOYS	GO WEST	2	1993
SAINT ETIENNE	ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART	39	1991
CYNDI LAUPER	I DROVE ALL NIGHT	7	1989
TRACEY ULLMAN	THEY DON'T KNOW	2	1983

Video playlist

If your head needs a refresh for any of our 12 contenders, avail yourself of our delightful video playlist, why don’t you?