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"20 years ago this week, Wet Wet Wet had just landed at No.1 with a cover of the Troggs classic &amp;#039;Love Is All Around&amp;#039;.  One week later, they were still number one. Five weeks later, they were still no.1. Ten weeks later, you guessed it, they were still number one. It ended up lasting 15 weeks in the top spot (one short of Bryan Adams&amp;#039;s UK chart record with &amp;#039;Everything I Do (I Do It for You)&amp;#039;, and was only eventually dislodged by the glorious Europop perfection of Whigfield&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Saturday Night&amp;#039;.      It&amp;#039;s curious to look back upon the track&amp;#039;s chart reign now and wonder how on earth it managed to reign supreme for so long. Was the music scene really so awful in the summer of 1994? Who was actually going out to the shops (remember there was no iTunes or Amazon back then) to buy it in week 13? The song, which accompanied the biggest Brit-flick of the year Four Weddings and a Funeral, went on to become a first-dance and school disco staple in the &amp;#039;90s and beyond. It also set a bar that Wet Wet Wet would never match again. They would always be the &amp;#039;Love Is All Around&amp;#039; band forever more. It also reminds us of a time when the singles chart was actually flourishing with huge sales, tracks rising and falling depending on how good your Top of the Pops performance was, and nothing in recent years has come even close to such a stint at the top. To celebrate its 20-year anniversary at the top of the charts, here are 9 facts you might not have known about the track.  1. The band were originally offered a Barry Manilow track for the Four Weddings soundtrack. Thankfully for all of us, we didn&amp;#039;t hear that for 15 weeks. 2. The band actually considered deleting the record after only 10 weeks at the top because of fears that people would hate them so much for it. &amp;quot;We thought people were beginning to hate us. We feared people would hear that song again and start jumping off tall buildings.&amp;quot; 3. The band recorded the track in only two days. That&amp;#039;s a lot of money for two days&amp;#039; work.  4. The song didn&amp;#039;t originally appear in the film and was only squeezed in after last minute re-edits following early screenings. 5. The track also reached No.1 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Holland, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden. But it only got to No.2 in France. And they call themselves romantics - pah. 6. Reg Presley from The Troggs is rumoured to have spent a large chunk of his royalties for the track on funding his fascination with the paranormal and, in particular, funding research into crop circles. 7. Four Weddings director Richard Curtis clearly found Wet Wet Wet&amp;#039;s chart dominance pretty lol-worthy and said that he &amp;quot;couldn&amp;#039;t think of a funnier way to start&amp;quot; 2003 festive classic Love Actually (a sequel of sorts to Four Weddings) than reworking the track as &amp;#039;Christmas Is All Around&amp;#039;. 8. The track was voted the worst song of the &amp;#039;90s by the NME. That&amp;#039;s the decade that gave us Mr Blobby.  9.  Speaking to Digital Spy about the track in 2007, the band insisted that they no longer have any negative feelings about it. &amp;quot;As soon as that first bar hits, whether it be in front of a hundred people or a hundred thousand people, the place explodes,&amp;quot; said Tommy Cunningham. &amp;quot;The roof comes off. Wherever it is around the world. My feelings for the song are great.  &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t be speaking to you now if it wasn&amp;#039;t for &amp;#039;Love Is All Around&amp;#039;. Wet Wet Wet would have disappeared from the public eye a long time into the past. That level of success means you belong to the wallpaper now. You can then always come back. You can still ask people now if they&amp;#039;ve heard of Marti Pellow or Wet Wet Wet and 99% of the time they&amp;#039;ll say &amp;#039;Yes&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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