Billboard Hot 100 55th Anniversary: Top 100 Songs/Artists

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Jul 30, 2013 10:45:33 GMT -5 Myth X said:

Something tells me that We Found Love will make it instead of I'm Yours.

Forgot about that one. You are probably right

I'm Yours was #6 for 2009. It's low peak will work against it, it's long chart run may nit be enough to bring it back up

[Caviar]

I see WFL sneaking in.

[Daniel Collins]

Jul 30, 2013 10:45:33 GMT -5 Myth X said:

Something tells me that We Found Love will make it instead of I'm Yours.

What about 'Pokerface'?

[Rocky]

Jul 30, 2013 11:49:29 GMT -5 Daniel Collins said:

Jul 30, 2013 10:45:33 GMT -5 Myth X said:

Something tells me that We Found Love will make it instead of I'm Yours.

What about 'Pokerface'?

Yeah. I didn't thing "We Are Young" or "One More Night" were bigger.

[HolidayGuy]

How many weeks did "We Found Love" log on the Hot 100?

I don't know- 76 weeks- and with a top 10 peak- seems like an awfully long run to miss the top 100. But, it is very possible, I suppose.

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With 4 new entries in the top 30, Gotye, LMFAO and Black Eyed Peas seem like locks.

We Found Love also seems like a lock


This is the top 100 of the last 55 years. A combinaton of a high peak and a long chart run and you are in. Missing one of those and you will be ranked lower. It seems that more emphasis is being given to the higher peak, if you happen to lack one of the two.

The comparative song 'How Do I Live' had both. A high peak (although not #1) and a record run in the top 10

[brady47]

If We Found Love does make it, that is an awfully high position for a song that isn't in the top 40 digital selling singles of all time.

I mean Poker Face and Just Dance aren't even on the chart, and they've sold 1.5 million more than WFL.

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The chart runs of the Lady Gaga songs is the problem here. We Found Love had 10 weeks at #1

[Daniel Collins]

Is it impossible for "Thrift Shop" or "Harlem Shake" to enter?

[HolidayGuy]

^The chart is based on weekly position, not how many points it had each week- thus, no chance for "Harlem Shake."

[HolidayGuy]

And so it is RiRi/Calvin Harris...

30. "Flashdance…What a Feeling," - Irene Cara
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for six weeks (1983)

The synthesizer-based hit won the Academy Award for Best Song, defeating "Maniac" from the same film as well as "Over You" from "Tender Mercies" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from "Yentl."

29. "Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for eight weeks (2012)

Raised in Australia but born in Bruges, Gotye is only the second artist from Belgium to top the Hot 100. The first was the Singing Nun in 1963 with "Dominique."

28. "Every Breath You Take" - The Police
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for eight weeks (1983)

Often mistaken for a sweet love song, Sting has described the song as "fairly nasty," as it is about surveillance, ownership and jealousy.

27. "Too Close" - Next
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for five weeks (1998)

Producer Kay Gee told this Minneapolis trio they were going to write a song based on an early rap hit, Kurtis Blow's "Christmas Rappin'." But they didn't sample the original. "We played it live and changed it around," says Kay Gee. "I felt if we put the right lyrics on top of that beat, we could bring that same magic back in the '90s."

26. "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" - Andy Gibb
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for four weeks (1977)

Andy Gibb signed to the RSO label at Robert Stigwood's home in Bermuda and immediately started writing songs with his brothers. On their first day of composing, Barry Gibb sequestered himself in one of the bedrooms on the estate and wrote this song by himself.

25. "Low" - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 10 weeks (2008)

Flo Rida says when he first heard the track produced by DJ Montay, he felt it immediately. "It reminded me of the early bass records from artists like the 2 Live Crew."

24. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 10 weeks (2011)

The 11th of Rihanna's 12 No. 1s on the Hot 100, and the only one with a double-digit reign, as it stayed on top for 10 weeks.

23. "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for six weeks (1982)

Sylvester Stallone was going to use Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" as his main theme for "Rocky III," until label owner Tony Scotti, who years earlier had released a single by Sly's brother Frank, played him an album by the Chicago-based band Survivor. Within 90 minutes of the group seeing a rough cut of the film, "Eye of the Tiger" was born.

22. "How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1977)

RSO label founder and Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood phoned the trio and told them he needed four songs for a film he was producing, "about a bunch of guys who live in New York." The first song written after the call was "How Deep Is Your Love," but it was intended for Yvonne Elliman. Stigwood heard it and was adamant the Bee Gees record it themselves.

21. "Le Freak" - Chic
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for six weeks (1978)

Selling more than four million copies, "Le Freak" established the credentials of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who went on to produce for Diana Ross, David Bowie, Carly Simon, Madonna, Sister Sledge, Duran Duran and Debbie Harry.

[Rocky]

Oh wow, "I'm Yours" missed it. :O And WFL above STIUTK...

[Verisimilitude]

21. "Le Freak" - Chic
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for six weeks (1978)

Selling more than four million copies, "Le Freak" established the credentials of Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who went on to produce for Diana Ross, David Bowie, Carly Simon, Madonna, Sister Sledge, Duran Duran and Debbie Harry.

Incredible number. It's so annoying how precise sales data is hard to find for huge songs from the 60's-80's.

[colson]

22. "How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1977)

How did this song become this huge? It doesn't even seem like it's their biggest hit.

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Jul 31, 2013 9:56:09 GMT -5 colson said:

22. "How Deep Is Your Love" - Bee Gees
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for three weeks (1977)

How did this song become this huge? It doesn't even seem like it's their biggest hit.

26 weeks in the top 40, a record at the time

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Jul 31, 2013 9:51:19 GMT -5 Rocky said:

Oh wow, "I'm Yours" missed it. :O And WFL above STIUTK...

It is about peaks and chart runs, with peaks being more important.

10 weeks at #1 gets you in. Low chart peaks do not

[HolidayGuy]

"Low" being relative to No. 1, of course. ;)

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In the all-time top 100, these are almost all #1's, althought "Low" was a pretty big hit in its own right

[Caviar]

The new entries, to recap:

99. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
97. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
74. "Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars
68. "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
56. "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha
51. "Boom Boom Pow" - Black Eyed Peas
46. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
31. "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele
29. "Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra
25. "Low" - Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
24. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris

[HolidayGuy]

I knew you'd get run with that, 2m. :) (And "Low" was a No. 1 hit for 10 weeks, like "We Found Love")

Just Blaze- "Low" was No. 23 on the 2008 list, so not a new entry.

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So what songs have yet to show up that will probably be in the top 20?

Hey Jude?
We Belong Together?
Mack The Knife?
Theme from 'A Summer Place'?
Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)?
You Light Up My Life?
Physical?

Plus 2 more new ones.

Any other ideas?

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See the chart from 5 years ago, pull out the 2 that have already been published and add the 2 new ones


The other 18 will be the same

[colson]

These are the remaining 18 left with the 2 new songs to be added:

The Twist
Smooth
Mack The Knife
How Do I Live
Macarena
Physical
You Light Up My Life
Hey Jude
We Belong Together
Un-Break My Heart
Yeah!
Bette Davis Eyes
Endless Love
Tonight's The Night(Gonna Be Alright)
Foolish Games
Everything I Do(I Do It For You)
I'll Make Love To You
Theme From A Summer Place

[RadioBeatz]

Those new 2 entries are definitely "I Gotta Feeling" and "Party Rock Anthem". :)

So we can determine how is this decade going on... ;)

Top 10 of the 2010s (so far):

10. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
9. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
8. "Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars
7. "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
6. "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha
5. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
4. "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele
3. "Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra
2. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
1. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock

[colson]

^And probably in a few months, Blurred Lines will be in that top 5 for the decade. It's not going anywhere so it will definitely make a huge impression.

[HolidayGuy]

The first half of the top 20... and no newbies. So, we have two new entries to the top 10 to come.

20. "The Theme from 'A Summer Place'" - Percy Faith
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for nine weeks (1960)

Max Steiner composed the score for the 1959 film "A Summer Place," and Toronto-born Faith covered the main theme, giving him the most successful instrumental of the rock era.

19. "I'll Make Love to You" - Boyz II Men
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 14 weeks (1994)

Writer/producer Babyface says the song was to him, "imagining what would…follow 'End of the Road' but not be exactly the same, but familiar enough where you could touch some of the same ingredients, so they don't make a total left turn from where they left off."

18. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" - Bryan Adams
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for seven weeks (1991)

Michael Kamen composed the music for "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and wanted Kate Bush or Annie Lennox to sing the title song. Then Lisa Stansfield was in the running, along with a pairing of Peter Cetera and Julia Fordham. Ultimately, Bryan Adams was asked to co-write and record the film's main vocal song and it became his biggest hit. Adams is the highest-ranking Canadian artist on the all-time Hot 100.

17. "You Were Meant for Me / Foolish Games" - Jewel
Hot 100 Peak: No. 2 / No. 7 (1997)

"You Were Meant for Me" peaked at No. 2 and was moving down the Hot 100 and would have fallen off the chart, except the B-side was "Foolish Games," which was included in the "Batman & Robin" soundtrack. It became the A-side, as well as a radio hit of its own, and the single went back to No. 7 and remained on the Hot 100 for 65 weeks.

16. "Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)" - Rod Stewart
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for eight weeks (1976)

Stewart tried to record his album "A Night on the Town" in Los Angeles but couldn't hit a correct note, which he blamed on the smog. Then he went to Caribou Studios in Colorado, but couldn't sing at 9,000 feet above sea level. So the vocals for this No. 1 hit were successfully recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami.

15. "Endless Love" - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for nine weeks (1981)

During its chart run, the song became the most successful Motown single of all time, the most successful hit from a soundtrack, and the most successful duet, all thanks to its nine-week run at No. 1.

14. "Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for nine weeks (1981)

Bette Davis was so flattered by the song, she wrote letters to songwriters Jackie DeShannon and Donna Weiss thanking them for making her "a part of modern times." When the song won a Grammy, Davis sent the composers roses.

13. "Yeah!" - Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 12 weeks (2004)

The fourth of his nine No. 1s. He's ruled the Hot 100 for a total of 47 weeks; 12 of those weeks were racked up by this song. It was immediately followed at No. 1 by another Usher single, "Burn," which was on top for eight weeks, which in turn was succeeded by his "Confessions Part II."

12. "Un-Break My Heart" - Toni Braxton
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 11 weeks (1996)

The demo of Diane Warren's song was recorded in a low key and producer David Foster was going to have Braxton sing in a higher key until LaFace owner Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds protested. "That's almost a man's key," Foster replied. Babyface insisted: "It'll be really sexy."

11. "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey
Hot 100 Peak: No. 1 for 14 weeks (2005)

Her 16th No. 1 (of 18 to date) proved to be the biggest hit of her career. It held pole position for 14 weeks, two weeks shy of the record-setting "One Sweet Day," but it was on the chart for 43 weeks, by far her longest Hot 100 run.

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Party Rock's top 10 run should give it a huge boost, it is possible it could finish in the range of How Do I Live around #4, which would put it ahead of I Gotta Feeling

[RadioBeatz]

I thought "I Gotta Feeling" was a lock for top 10, but "Party Rock Anthem"??? :o then again it spent like 70 weeks on the Hot 100..

It's definitely by a LARGE MARGIN the top song of this decade so far.

[Caviar]

Thanks for the correction HolidayGuy.

I didn't know UBMH was supposed to be in a higher key?! I can't imagine it any other way.

[when the pawn...]

Jul 31, 2013 17:46:34 GMT -5 RadioBeatz said:

Those new 2 entries are definitely "I Gotta Feeling" and "Party Rock Anthem". :)

So we can determine how is this decade going on... ;)

Top 10 of the 2010s (so far):

10. "We Are Young" - fun. feat. Janelle Monae
9. "One More Night" - Maroon 5
8. "Just the Way You Are" - Bruno Mars
7. "Moves Like Jagger" - Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
6. "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha
5. "Call Me Maybe" - Carly Rae Jepsen
4. "Rolling in the Deep" - Adele
3. "Somebody That I Used to Know" - Gotye feat. Kimbra
2. "We Found Love" - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris
1. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock

Yes and no - "Tik Tok" probably would rank lower since it had part of it's run in 2009 (right?). I'd assume the next 10 would include Give Me Everything, Firework, F**k You, Dynamite, Someone Like You, Thrift Shop, Payphone, Grenade?