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3 unusual facts about Chart topper


Chart topper

Billboard charts, a ranking of the relative popularity of songs or albums in the United States

Record chart, a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time

Put Yourself in My Shoes

All four singles from the album produced huge hits for Black on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts: "Loving Blind" and "Where Are You Now" both at Number One; the title track at #4; and "One More Payment" at #7.



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Are You Ready for Freddy?

As well, Fender covers the novelty song "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window?", which was originally a Billboard chart-topper for singer Patti Page in 1953.

Bishow Sharma

Aatma Ma became one of the biggest chart topper of the Nepal music video Industry of Nepal.

Curiosity Killed the Cat

The band's first album, Keep Your Distance, entered the UK Albums Chart at number one in May 1987, and stayed in the Top Ten for 13 weeks, although the release of that album's "Free" as a single only reached number 56 in the UK Singles Chart.

David Geddes

David Cole Idema (born July 1, 1950), best known by the stage name David Geddes, is a soft rock singer who had a U.S. Top 5 hit with "Run Joey Run" in 1975, which peaked at #4 in October 1975.

Deniece Williams

The following year, yet another famed producer, Thom Bell, helped Williams score another number-1 R&B chart-topper with her remake of The Royalettes' "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", which became a Top 10 pop hit as well, reaching number 10 and number 6 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well.

Diane Renay

"Navy Blue", composed by Crewe with Bud Rehak and Eddie Rambeau, became a national smash, reaching No. 6 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in February 1964, and soaring to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary singles chart.

Donnie Elbert

He returned to All Platinum and had a run of minor R&B hits, but left after he claimed authorship of Shirley & Company's R&B chart-topper "Shame Shame Shame" which was credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson.

Geoff Love

Whilst working at Columbia, he arranged Laurie London's gospel song He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, a 1957 chart topper in the US.

Gogi Grant

In 1955 she signed with a small record company, Era Records, and had her first top ten hit with "Suddenly There's a Valley." The next year, she had an even bigger hit, reaching Billboard 's No. 1 position, with "The Wayward Wind" and holding there for a then record eight weeks.

Juan-les-Pins

Peter Sarstedt famously mentions Juan-les-Pins in his 1969 UK number one hit, "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)"; a portrait of a girl who becomes a member of the Euro jet-set.

Judson Spence

Although he had a top 40 hit with “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” in 1988 and also had a minor hit with “Drift Away” from The Wonder Years soundtrack, Spence was dropped from Atlantic before completing his second album in 1991.

Karen Ramirez

In 1998 she had a #1 hit single on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart and a #8 hit on the UK Singles Chart with her cover version of Everything but the Girl's "I Didn't Know I Was Looking for Love", under the more simple title of "Looking for Love".

Kōsa ni Fukarete

It was recorded by pop icon Shizuka Kudō and released as her eighth solo single, providing her with sixth chart-topper.

Love Storm

Lead single "Whodunit", with its lyrics pleading to several 1970s TV detectives ("Hey Baretta, won't you please go get her? .... Kojak, won't you bring her back?"), became the group's third and final R&B chart-topper, also reaching #22 on the pop chart and #5 in the United Kingdom.

Mars Bonfire

Dennis Edmonton (born 21 April 1943 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada), also known by the stage name Mars Bonfire, is a Canadian rock musician and songwriter, best known for writing the hit song "Born to Be Wild" for Steppenwolf.

Mary MacGregor

Macgregor admitted in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson that she hated her own chart-topper, chiefly because she had little sympathy for the narrator of "Torn Between Two Lovers", a woman who confesses to her husband that she is having an affair, but pleads with her husband to stay with her and accept the situation.

Pete Drake

One of the most sought-after backup musicians of the 1960s, Drake played on such hits as Lynn Anderson's "Rose Garden", Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors"' Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay"' and Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man".

Pip Williams

He is also known for producing The Moody Blues albums Long Distance Voyager and The Present, the former being a United States Billboard 200 chart topper.

Richard Tandy

Educated at Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan, Tandy would later be reunited with Bevan in 1968 when he played the harpsichord on The Move's number one chart-topper "Blackberry Way".

Rockers Revenge

Its initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking on Sunshine" (an Eddy Grant composition and songwriter, featuring lead vocals by Donnie Calvin) hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart in 1982.

Silver Convention

"Fly, Robin, Fly," of which the complete lyrics consisted of only six different words (Fly, Robin, Up, To, The, Sky), maintained three weeks at #1 in late November and early December 1975, and won the group a Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.

Styl-Plus

It has also been a massive chart topper, and has been used in numerous shows, including the pioneer edition of Big Brother Nigeria.

Sue and Sunny

When "With A Little Help" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart they found themselves accompanying Cocker on several television programmes including Top of the Pops.

Susie Mathis

Mathis released a solo single under the name 'Tiger Sue' in 1978 and was the vocal coach for the St Winifred's School Choir Christmas number one in 1980, "There's No-one Quite Like Grandma".

Tarrus Riley

It contained the hits Start Anew, Contagious, Good Girl Gone Bad featuring Konshens and Superman, a cover of a Robin Thicke original.2010 saw the release of the chart topper Protect the People, which scaled several charts in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.

The Belle Stars

"Iko Iko", a cover of The Dixie Cups' 1965 hit (later featured in the 1988 movie Rain Man), was The Belle Stars' long-hoped-for UK Singles Chart debut, peaking at a modest number 35 in June 1982.

The Commentators

The Commentators was a one-off name used for the song, "N-N-Nineteen Not Out", a 1985 UK hit single recorded by the impressionist Rory Bremner as a parody of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit, "19".

The Mac Band

The group's first album, The Mac Band featuring the McCampbell Brothers included production by Babyface and members of Atlantic Starr, and one of the tracks from the album, "Roses Are Red" reached #1 on the U.S. R&B chart and reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart.

Tippa Irie

He achieved his first national exposure on night time BBC Radio 1 in the mid-1980s, with the singles "It's Good To Have The Feeling You're The Best" and "Complain Neighbour" (on Greensleeves Records), before achieving a UK Top 40 hit in 1986 with "Hello Darling".