Your first and last CD single

[Voicething]

First: All Saints - Bootie Call
Last bought in shop: Mini Viva - I Wish
Last bought online: The Saturdays - 30 Days

[Itty Bitty Piggy]

First: En Vogue - Don't Let Go

Last: No Doubt - Hella Good

[Tribal Spaceman]

The first CD single I ever bought was "Too Much" by Spice Girls, as I didn't have a CD player until late 1997. The last single I bought in a shop was "Lightning" by The Wanted, but I bought "My Heart Takes Over" by The Saturdays online more recently.

[Dazzle]

First CD single... I'm not entirely sure. Just stared at my collection for a minute trying to rack my brain, the earliest I can see is Michael Jackson 'You are not alone'. 1995 was the year I converted from cassettes to CD cos I started buying all of Mariah's and Eternal's singles on CD - they were my childhood obsessions.

Last CD Single - Got an import of Adam Lambert 'Better than I know myself' - first single I've bought in over a year.

[AcerBen]

First: East 17 - Let It Rain
Last: Six-D - Best Damn Night
- though I do still have a look at the back of HMV every time I go in there on the off chance somebody good has released one because I do get the tiniest buzz out of buying a CD single from a shop. All they have at the moment is Marcus Collins, Plan B, One Direction and JLS.

[Wigworld]

First: Prince Alphabet St - 3 inch in clear stickered plastic case - has seen plenty of action.

Last: Madonna Give Me All Your Luvin' - remains unplayed... probably never will feel the warmth of the laser.

[anfunny2003]

First: Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You [1988]
Last: Plan B - Ill Manors [Dispatched this monring!]

The CD is my favourite format.

[Ice Cream Skies]

My first: Creamy - Never Ending Story
My last: I can't remember which one, but I think it was a Katy Perry one.

[AceReject]

First; Ace of Base - All That She Wants
Last; Tove Styrke - Call My Name

And there was a *whole* lot inbetween...

[Eric Generic]

I wish I'd bought Alphabet St. as a single! Assuming it had the edit, that is. Years of the whole damn LP version, argh..haha.

[anfunny2003]

I wish I'd bought Alphabet St. as a single! Assuming it had the edit, that is. Years of the whole damn LP version, argh..haha.

I have it, picked it up for 50p in a used record shop a few years ago. It doesn't have the edit on... and it looks terrible with age;

http://www.discogs.com/Prince-Alphab...release/658765

[idratherjack]

My first was This Is It by Dannii Minogue in 1993 and the last (I think) was All The Lovers by Kylie, so from one Minogue to another!

I still miss the weekly Monday trip to HMV to pick up the new releases, often impulse buying based on the record label or a particular remixer, and the glory days of the mid to late 90s when you got 7 or 8 remixes.

[Charley]

I'm not sure, but I think my first single might have been the Macarena.

My most recent online purchases have been the One Direction singles and Little Mix's Cannonball.

Barely any singles still get released physically in Belgium anymore. When available I do try to get a copy of singles by Belgian pop artists when either there's a chance they'll never get round to releasing an album, like Wonderful by Iris before she was announced to do Eurovision, or when they're a big "moment" release if that makes sense, like the debut single by Flemish The Voice winner Glenn Claes which also is the most recent single I've bought.

[anfunny2003]

I too miss the Monday morning new release dash! Leaving with armfuls of singles... Does anyone recall Our Prices 90s singles offer? You got a CD wallet with a lemon on the front and you collected your receipts and when you bought 5, you got a 6th free. I was getting a free one most weeks... I remember one was Dannii's 'All I Wanna Do'. I literally used to astound the guys behind the counter with my pile each week.

[SockMonkey]

Ha, yes, the nearest record shop to my office was Our Price, and I was the same, building up enough purchases to get free ones most weeks. Oh lord, the days of singles being £1.99 and stuffed to 39:57 of remixes.

Same as Call It Love, I'd buy things I hadn't really heard of because a particular remixer had been involved or it was on a certain label. "Rollo remix! Sold!"

[Charley]

There used to be a small record store around the block from my house and as a kid I would stop by there at least once a week after school. They used to have a big wall behind the counter with all the singles available on show and then there were discounted singles to the side of the counter. I remember there was a time where my weekly allowance would cover exactly one new and one discounted single so every Friday when I got the money I would take my bike and ride it straight to the CD shop. God, what a time that was.

I went there so much that they even started giving me some of the promo posters and cutouts when they didn't need them anymore. I got some pretty cool Steps, Spice Girls and Destiny's Child stuff that way and a huuuuuuge poster of Janet Jackson's All For You cover.

[idratherjack]

Some of my best purchases were songs I'd never heard - I've got so many 90s CD singles that stalled at number 42 in the charts that no-one's ever heard of because there was an Almighty mix or I liked the look of the girl on the cover!

There was also a small local indie shop where the staff got to know me and put things aside for me or suggested things I'd like - again, some of my favourite songs.

What is most astonishing to me looking back is that on average I was buying about 5 singles a week whereas now I'd struggle to find 5 I'd want a year - I'm definitely getting old...

[Eric Generic]

I remember the Lemon cards in Our Price, haha. Didn'd they also run a similar thing with albums? I remember getting enough stamps for Robert Palmer's Addictions Vol.2 back in 1993, saving me a cool £14.49 on their stickered price!

My singles-buying reached its most unmanageable levels in the early 00s, I think. I'd be getting all osrts of suff for 99p, plus vinyls, 12"s, CD maxis. All my listening time got taken up with them, and albums got left on my shelves.

[shake-em-on-down]

First: Belfast Child - Simple Minds
Last: Whatever the last Girls Aloud single was (Untouchable)

[freeheadmess]

I think I'm right in saying

First - Steps, Heartbeat/Tragedy.
Last - Olly Murs - Heart Skips A Beat

[Lady Agnes Holland]

First (bought at the same time)

Kylie - Hand On Your Heart
Yazz - Where Has All The Love Gone?

Last

The Saturdays - My Heart Takes Over

[chris4862]

First: Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life (CD1)

Last: Spice Girls - Spice Up Your Life (CD2)

...funnily enough it happened to work out that way. The first was purchases back in 1997, the last was purchased a few weeks ago at a used record shop.

[vasilios]

After longing for a vinyl player for years my parents bought me a cheapo one in 1989 so even though cd singles were out, they didn't sell them in my town and when I moved I still found them more expensive than 12''s so I think my first was Madonna - Fever? Like, bought in a shop, week of release etc. I was between that or the 7'' Picture Disc of Fever and thought about which one to buy for ages, as if I was buying a house poor me!


Then I started buying loads only when they were on offer - until I started making money by which time I'd buy loads until Napster appeared and that was the end of them - I only started buying impressive cd1 cd2 sets etc after that.


My last one I think was The Saturdays - Higher, the signed one from their store.

I have LOADS and still listen to them time to time.

Today I had Ultimake Kaos - Right Here playing, great song!

[undisco_me]

My first:

All This Time - Michelle McManus, signed but with grease stains as she had just started eating a sausage roll (she was doing a signing in Greggs).

My Last:

The Meaning of Love - Michelle McManus, she spat on my face when I told her I wanted my money back. She was eating a packet of Monster Munch this time and I got some of that on me too.

[Booers]

First - Take That & Party, by Take That

Last - NOW 73 (second hand from Play Trade), but my last new CD I bought was Cinderella's Eyes by Nicola Roberts.

EDIT: Just realised neither of them are singles!! I think my first was Love Song For A Vwmpire/Little Bird by Annie Lennox, and the last Beat of my Drum by Nicola Roberts.