I stole this idea from another blog, but I have next to zero integrity, so theft doesn't bother me. I thought it was somewhat interesting - this guy listed what the number one song (as measured by Billboard) was every year on his birthday. So without any more exposition, here's the list - the number one song in the country every year, on September 24th. (Please note that these songs are NOT my favorite songs year-by-year).
1983 - Billy Joel - Tell Her About It
1984 - John Waite - Missing You
1985 - Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
1986 - Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You
1987 - Whitney Houston - Didn't We Almost Have It All
1988 - Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
1989 - Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You
1990 - Wilson Phillips - Release Me
1991 - Color Me Badd - I Adore Mi Amor
1992 - Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
1993 - Mariah Carey - Dreamlover
1994 - Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
1995 - Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise
1996 - Los Del Rio - Macarena
1997 - Mariah Carey - Honey
1998 - Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
1999 - TLC - Unpretty
2000 - Madonna - Music
2001 - Jennifer Lopez feat. Ja Rule - I'm Real (Remix)
2002 - Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
2003 - Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
2004 - Ciara feat. Petey Pablo - Goodies
2005 - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
2006 - Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
It's very possible that this is the least masculine list you could construct under this premise. Incredible. I have a lip-synching duo, Mariah Carey twice (back when she got played on light rock stations, before she revealed herself to be both slutty and insane), Whitney Houston (before she revealed herself to be insane - and maybe a cougar? I heard she was dating Ray J…), the worst Madonna song ever made (and I already don’t like her), the immortally badass Color Me Badd (we can make love until we both WAKE UP! oooooh ooh ooh ooh ooh), the raw sexuality of Wilson Phillips, Aerosmith's cheesiest light rock song ever, the Macarena, tough guys' guys like Billy Joel and Huey Lewis, Ja Rule and Nelly singing, and a TLC song about not getting plastic surgery or hair extensions just to get guys to like you more - true self esteem, after all, comes from within.
If you'd like to try this exercise for your birthday, or any other day that's important to you, just go here (it's surprisingly sort of fun): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_hits_%28United_States%29
7 comments:
wow, i never realized how much teenage girls dominate american pop music sales
so i guess you've established that not only are girls not funny, but that they also have horrible taste in music
true, but at least girls smell good...
yeah, cause they use soaps like caress and olay...
Eric hates girls
yo, i did this, and it sucks. i got savage garden twice.
hahaha savage garden - I really agree with the first comment - it's teenage girls who buy all the music
As long as you're doing these websites, i gotta suggest you try www.myheritage.com and post those results. I'm sure hilarity, as always, will ensue. Plus it's fun.
Post a Comment