Top of the Pops: Biggest Hits 1998 (S2022EP BBC Two Sat 20 May 2022)

The extensive Top of the Pops back catalogue provides a look back at some of the biggest hits of 1998.

Film soundtracks ruled the charts, with Céline Dion’s My Heart Will Go On breaking records and winning hearts, and Aerosmith’s power ballad I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing becoming the band’s first and only top hit in the United States. Usher, Billie Piper, B*Witched, The Corrs, Cleopatra, and Leann Rimes were among the artists to perform for the first time on the Top of the Pops stages, and they all wowed the audience. Cher’s auto-tune iconic Believe quickly became the best-selling single of all time by a female artist. Add in a Green Day bittersweet ballad, Fat Les’ unofficial football anthem, and many more.

Robbie Williams, Mousse T. v Hot ‘n’ Juicy, Catatonia, Jay-Z, B*Witched, Cher, Five, Steps, Fat Les, Aerosmith, The Corrs, Cleopatra, Savage Garden, Leann Rimes, The Mavericks, Celine Dion, Cornershop, Green Day, The Cardigans, Usher, Eagle-Eye Cherry, and Pras Michel are among the artists featured.

Airdate: Sat 20 May 2022 at 21:00 on BBC Two

Season 2022 Episode 

Top of the Pops is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. It was traditionally shown every Thursday evening on BBC1, except for a short period on Fridays in late 1974, before being again moved to Fridays in 1996, and then to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week’s best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week’s singles chart. Additionally, there was a special edition of the programme on Christmas Day (and usually, until 1984, a second such edition a few days after Christmas), featuring some of the best-selling singles of the year.