Saturday, January 7, 2012

Top Song

 I noticed a couple Facebook friends had the following 'Facebook Challenge':
  1. Find out the song that was #1 the week you were born.
  2. Find that song on YouTube.
  3. Post that video on your wall without shame.
So I looked into it and found the following 4 songs from the week I was born:

Top Song in the US: Emotions - Best Of My Love
info source: http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/


Top Song in the UK: Elvis Presley - Way Down
info source: http://www.bobborst.com/popculture/numberonesongs/


Top Song in Canada: Rita Coolidge - (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
info source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Singles_Chart


Top Song in Australia: Peter Allen - I Go To Rio
info source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA_Charts



I tried searching for other countries - like Belgium, Germany, Europe - but nothing came up with a simple link. I did find this site that has a list by month, rather than week: http://tsort.info/music/
I then looked through the lists for the top position for September (my birth month). Here is the condensed list - I included links to the videos as opposed to the videos themselves.
The list is in the order from the website:



Notes:
US Billboard - The complete Billboard charts for the 20th Century from Bullfrog
France - Weekly top 10 in France from 1970 from charly1300.site.voila.fr/2006.htm
UK - The complete UK singles charts
Canada - The Canadian weekly top 50 from Toronto radio station CHUM
Eire - Number one selling records in Ireland from Wikipedia
Austria - Top 40 charts from austriancharts.at/archiv.asp
Belgium - Chart from Belgium Radio 2 (source http://radio2.be/)
Germany - German top 35 charts
New Zealand - Number one selling records in New Zealand from Wikipedia
Canada RPM - A list of number 1 records in the Canadian RPM newsletter from Wikipedia
Holland - Weekly top 40 in Holland
Springbok - The national chart on Springbok radio, South Africa

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