Billboard

Official Charts

Cast your mind back 19 years to the sound of summer, that hit that was never off the radio. Having trouble remembering? Shall we refresh your Mmmemory?

Back in 1997, three wholesome looking brothers caused a global sensation with their debut single MmmBop, which smashed straight to the top of the Official Singles Chart this week in 1997.

Thanks to a particularly good start to the summer – don’t let anybody tell you Brits’ music purchases aren’t influenced by the weather – the super-catchy, sunny vibe of the song helped it stay at Number 1 for three sizzling weeks.

MmmBop is the one everyone remembers, but Hanson did go on to have more hits – eight Top 40s in all, including a couple of quick comebacks in 2000 and 2005. Their debut album Middle Of Nowhere also topped the chart for a week. We last saw them in 2007, when they just missed the Top 40 with Go.

MmmBop has a chart sales tally of 758,000, and was the 11th biggest selling single of 1997. There’s still a bit of love out there for MmmBop – over 600 of you have downloaded it so far this year.

Here’s that week’s frankly fantastic Top 10. Click on the image to see the full Top 100.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, it was 😢 for Eternal, deposed from the top spot after just a week with their one and only Number 1 I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. Bebe Winans). Radiohead’s Paranoid Android scored the Oxford band a new personal best at Number 3 – it’s their highest-charting single to date.

Further down the chart, Gina G returned with Ti Amo and Marilyn Manson was new at 18 with Beautiful People, which would one day become the theme tune to WWE SmackDown.

Let’s relive the mmmagic of MmmBop, and prommmise never to do that lammme joke with mmm ever again.

Huffington Post

The lead-in to the track “Beautiful Thing” was built for a rom com soundtrack — it’s fresh, provoking, catchy. However, then the band takes a step back into its signature sound, rather than forward to this unknown area. The ahhhs and oooohsof “Beautiful Thing” evoke the feeling that listeners got with the Hanson late release “Give A Little” — it’s definitely the defining upbeat, feel good sound of the original band. Can some faraway music producer re-release the soundtrack to “Can’t Hardly Wait”? “Beautiful Thing” would pair well with the closing credits.

DNA Info.

AVONDALE — Hearts were going “boom boom” all over Avondale — but they’re about to break, instead.

Thousands of Chicagoans expressed interest in a Facebook event for a supposedly live performance by Proto Zoa, the heartthrob superstar in “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.”

The “space-stay” crooner was listed as performing at Kuma’s Corner, 2900 W. Belmont Ave., at noon July 15. Fans, predictably, went super nova.

“I never knew that I needed this until now,” wrote one Facebook user. Another declared, “DON’T Y’ALL DARE PLAY WITH MY TWEENAGE HEART!!!!!!!!”

For those not in the ’90s know, “Zenon” is perhaps the greatest thing to come out of Disney Channel Original Movies.

The 1999 flick stars Kirsten Storms as Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl living the neon-clad life in a 2049 space station.

The crafty teen has an undying love for the band Microbe and its frontman Proto Zoa, but things get complicated when she gets herself grounded … like, on Earth.

The next generation won’t know how great Proto Zoa was #Zenonpic.twitter.com/VIOXRrpOuT

— Madyson (@madysonk13) May 28, 2016

Of course, since it’s Disney, everything turns out fine — so fine, in fact, that Proto Zoa returns to chum it up with Zenon in “Zenon: The Zequel.”

But he will forever be remembered for Microbe’s smash hit, “Zoom Zoom Zoom.”

So, safe to say Proto Zoa in Avondale would be an even bigger hit than dining at Saved By The Max.

But a quick call to Kuma’s Corner killed our megastellar pipe dream. An employee at the burger pub said the fake event was set up by someone else and “not really happening.”

Zetus lapetus!

Your Chicago Events, the organization that created the Facebook events, isn’t real. Jacob Teel, a 26-year-old Lakeview resident, said he created the pages as a joke.

The fake “LIVE” shows are part of a running gag on Facebook, starting with Rammstein live at Olive Garden.

“There was also some help from random trolls,” Teel said. “Especially some guy that was saying he was the bassist from Proto Zoa.”

Teel created two other events: Hanson at Cheesie’s Pub and Grub in Lakeview and a show by Baha Men at Montrose Beach over Memorial Day weekend.

Also not so — unless we all missed that live performance of “Who Let the Dogs Out?” on Saturday.

Cheesie’s owner Chris Johnston confirmed the Hanson show was a no-go. Cheesie’s also flagged the “misleading” event, asking Facebook to remove it.

Perhaps it was ’90s nostalgia that prompted someone to create fake shows in Chicago for Hanson and fictional “Zenon” pop star Proto Zoa.View Full Caption

Getty Images/Facebook

AVONDALE — Hearts were going “boom boom” all over Avondale — but they’re about to break, instead.

Thousands of Chicagoans expressed interest in a Facebook event for a supposedly live performance by Proto Zoa, the heartthrob superstar in “Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century.”

The “space-stay” crooner was listed as performing at Kuma’s Corner, 2900 W. Belmont Ave., at noon July 15. Fans, predictably, went super nova.

“I never knew that I needed this until now,” wrote one Facebook user. Another declared, “DON’T Y’ALL DARE PLAY WITH MY TWEENAGE HEART!!!!!!!!”

For those not in the ’90s know, “Zenon” is perhaps the greatest thing to come out of Disney Channel Original Movies.

The 1999 flick stars Kirsten Storms as Zenon Kar, a 13-year-old girl living the neon-clad life in a 2049 space station.

The crafty teen has an undying love for the band Microbe and its frontman Proto Zoa, but things get complicated when she gets herself grounded … like, on Earth.

The next generation won’t know how great Proto Zoa was #Zenonpic.twitter.com/VIOXRrpOuT

— Madyson (@madysonk13) May 28, 2016

Of course, since it’s Disney, everything turns out fine — so fine, in fact, that Proto Zoa returns to chum it up with Zenon in “Zenon: The Zequel.”

But he will forever be remembered for Microbe’s smash hit, “Zoom Zoom Zoom.”

So, safe to say Proto Zoa in Avondale would be an even bigger hit than dining at Saved By The Max.

But a quick call to Kuma’s Corner killed our megastellar pipe dream. An employee at the burger pub said the fake event was set up by someone else and “not really happening.”

Zetus lapetus!

Your Chicago Events, the organization that created the Facebook events, isn’t real. Jacob Teel, a 26-year-old Lakeview resident, said he created the pages as a joke.

The fake “LIVE” shows are part of a running gag on Facebook, starting with Rammstein live at Olive Garden.

“There was also some help from random trolls,” Teel said. “Especially some guy that was saying he was the bassist from Proto Zoa.”

Teel created two other events: Hanson at Cheesie’s Pub and Grub in Lakeview and a show by Baha Men at Montrose Beach over Memorial Day weekend.

Also not so — unless we all missed that live performance of “Who Let the Dogs Out?” on Saturday.

Cheesie’s owner Chris Johnston confirmed the Hanson show was a no-go. Cheesie’s also flagged the “misleading” event, asking Facebook to remove it.

Ariel Cheung · DNAinfo Reporter

Have you ever been fooled by a social media hoax?

VOICE YOUR OPINION ON NHSQ! 

But the cold, hard truth didn’t stop us from our full-blown ’90s nostalgia. We took a little time to catch up on what Hanson and Proto Zoa have been up to since their heydays. Turns out, they’re slaying the 2010s just like they slayed our hearts back in the day.

Phillip Rhys, who played Proto Zoa, has built up quite the resume since his Disney Channel days. After spots on “24,” “Nip/Tuck” and “Glee,” Rhys took some time to direct Sandra Oh and Darren Pettie in “The Scarecrow.”

The 43-year-old British actor also guest starred in the “Doctor Who” Christmas special last year — an honor shared in years past with Michael Gambon (Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter movies) and Kylie Minogue.

While Rhys has ditched the white, spiky hair of his interstellar alter ego, the 17 years since he zoom zoom zoomed into our hearts have treated him very kindly.

Here he is with Oh and Pettie in March:

And a few other photos, you know, for good measure:

^{Phillip Rhys [Getty Images]}

As for the tousled-hair boy band, the trio continue to release albums and tour to this day. Their latest album, “Anthem,” was released in 2013 and became their eighth to chart on the U.S. Top 40.

Isaac, Taylor and Zac also keep things light with fans. The same year “Anthem” came out, the brothers launched Mmmhops beer with Mustang Brewing.

They’ve served as judges on “Cupcake Wars” and covered “Wait and Bleed” by heavy metal band Slipknot, pledging to release an entire album of covers as an April Fools’ Day joke in 2010.

^{(L-R) Zac Hanson, Taylor Hanson and Isaac Hanson of Hanson attend the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 21, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nevada. [Getty Images]}

So, long story short: It looks like Rhys and Hanson are too busy, anyway, to swing by Chicago this summer.

For now it seems, Proto Zoa will only be performing live in our hearts.

Okay Protozoa I see you: @PhillipRhys pic.twitter.com/NxJgUV5Ev6

— Sasha (@sashamhoward) May 28, 2016