Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
The countdown is gonna begin soon. The theme: #1 Top billboard song of the year, of every year starting with 1950’s Good Night Irene by The Weavers and ending in 2000.
Anyone want to guess a song and a year? Put your money on folks.
Good guess. I can confirm the answer is no. Try the same band, 2 years before but different song.
So I was looking at the Billboard #1 thing for uhm… unrelated reasons, and IIRC 1964 was I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles, they also took #2 and a few other spots in the top 10 that year as well.
Yes. I guessed the band that had the most #1’s. Of course it had to be the Beatles. No one else comes close.
Which is very surprising since they weren’t recording music as the four of them until like '62. But they were coming out with an album every six months, and the fact that singles were really important back then (that and there was a UK album, US album).
I can’t name years because it all blurs together, but Thriller has to be one.
Some other ones maybe?
Staying Alive
Smells like Teen Spirit
Do they know it’s Christmas
No Commodores. No Lionel. 1979 Another Brick In The Wall rounds out the 70s. Any guesses for the 80s.
