Pure Shores Top Song

Pure Shores Top Song

BBC News - 02.01.01

All Saints' single Pure Shores has been voted
the best song of 2000, in a poll conducted by
music TV channel VH1.

The single, produced by William Orbit and from
the soundtrack to the movie The Beach, came
number one in the channel's Top 100 of the
year.

The all-girl group's song beat the Tom
Jones/Mousse T single Sexbomb into second
place. Moby's Porcelain came in third.

More than 100,000
people voted in the poll
by email and phone.
The full chart rundown
will be screened on VH1
on Wednesday from
1400.

The results of the poll
round off a hugely
successful year for Pure
Shores.

Until last week, the
song - which reached
number one in the
charts - was on course
to be the best-selling
single of the year with
sales of 700,000 copies.

In the end, it was
knocked into second
place by Bob the
Builder's Can We Fix It?,
which took the coveted Christmas number one
spot and sold more than 900,000 copies.

Pure Shores was taken from the All Saints'
third and latest album Saints and Sinners
which, while not badly received, did not make
big waves.

Elsewhere in the VH1 top 10 came Robbie
Williams, whose number one single Rock DJ
(studio version) was voted fourth best song of
the year.

The summer's smash
hit Groovejet (If This
Ain't Love) from
Spiller/Sophie
Ellis-Bextor came in at
number five.

Last year's bright new
talent Craig David
came in at number
eight with Fill Me In.

And newlywed pop
queen Madonna just
squeezed into the top
10 at number nine with Music, from the album
of the same name.
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Pure Shores also took top honors for the video of the year at MTV Europe.
The Beach was named one of the top movies of 2000 by Empire magazine, one of the critical bibles of the UK, AND "Sky One" picked The Beach, American Beauty, Gladiator and Sleepy Hollow as the most watchable movies of the year 2000 in the UK.