by Josh Hall
January 17, 2025
Red Deer’s Best Music!
On the day BIG105, or CHUB 105.5 on your FM dial, launched 25 years ago, the level of excitement in the building at 2840 Bremner Avenue may have rivalled the hoopla surrounding Y2K.
That day was Monday, Jan. 17, 2000.
Christina Aguilera’s ‘What A Girl Wants’ was #1 on the Billboard charts for the first of two weeks on top — sandwiched between Santana and Rob Thomas’s ‘Smooth’, and ‘I Knew I Loved You’ by Savage Garden.
Fight Club, American Pie, and The Blair Witch Project had recent success in cinemas, and that dastardly aforementioned Y2K bug had recently been deemed much ado about nothing.
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