Can be any major Billboard (or equivalent international) chart. Thought of these to get it started:
• Prince - "7" (reached #7 on the Hot 100 in 1993)• Garbage - "#1 Crush" (reached #1 on Modern Rock Tracks in 1997)• Blur - "Song 2" (reached #2 on the UK charts in 1997)
― LimbsKing, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:30 (five years ago)
Searching the figures for "Mambo No. 5" yielded disappointing results.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:33 (five years ago)
Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz - Number 1
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:34 (five years ago)
Man it's a hot one (#1)
― frogbs, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:38 (five years ago)
Ooh.. here's a random one.. "#9 Dream" by John Lennon peaked at #9 on the Hot 100 in 1975
― LimbsKing, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:45 (five years ago)
Metallica's "One" reached #1 in Finland.
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:00 (five years ago)
― frogbs, Friday, July 26, 2019 3:38 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hahahahahahahaha
― Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:03 (five years ago)
One Week by Barenaked Ladies was #1 for exactly 1 week (on the Billboard Hot 100)
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 26 July 2019 21:14 (five years ago)
off-topic but apparently "Two Can Play That Game" was never a hit in the US?!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 July 2019 21:51 (five years ago)
U2 "One"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 26 July 2019 22:16 (five years ago)
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, July 26, 2019 2:51 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)
the version that was a hit in the uk is a remix also
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:18 (five years ago)
also it still slaps
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:19 (five years ago)
Disappointed The Beatles' "For No One" was never a single - apparently the horn player saw the chart and thought it was an abbreviation of "For Number One".
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:37 (five years ago)
Seduction, "Two to Make It Right" (#2 on Billboard Hot 100)
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 23:41 (five years ago)
Len Barry, "1-2-3" reached #1 on Cashbox, #2 on Billboard, #3 on Record Retailer (UK) in 1965
― Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:41 (five years ago)
Chicago, "25 or 6 to 4" - #6 Cashbox, #4 Billboard
― Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:54 (five years ago)
Lots of songs called Nowhere didn't chart.
― StanM, Saturday, 27 July 2019 07:48 (five years ago)
"5-4-3-2-1" by Manfred Mann peaked at #5 in the UK.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:15 (five years ago)
Music Sounds Better With Youhas a video in which the song reaches number 1, this only happened in Greece and Spain.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:54 (five years ago)
DJ Snake’s Turn Down 4 What reached #4 in the US Billboard Hot 100.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:00 (five years ago)
“You’re The One That I Want” went to #1 in the US and the UK.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:03 (five years ago)
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen - #1 in US, Canada, and Netherlands.
― visiting, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:11 (five years ago)
Feist "1234" peaked at either number 2 or 3 in Canada (Wikipedia is contradictory and Billboard website is wonky rn), #4 on the US Hot Digital Songs chart, and #34 on the US Modern Rock Charts lol
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:19 (five years ago)
"I Got 5 On It" hit #5. (In Belgium.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:20 (five years ago)
Big Maybelle's cover of "96 Tears" hit US #96 in 1967.
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:22 (five years ago)
Love how this thread has us all just googling songs with numbers in the title
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:23 (five years ago)
surely everyone just knows these things?
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:43 (five years ago)
A counterexample: "867-5309/Jenny" reached #4 in the US and #2 in Canada, two of only three digits not mentioned in the title.
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:46 (five years ago)
kraftwerk - "numbers" achieved a whole number value on one or more radio charts
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:57 (five years ago)
assuming the theoretical extensibility of the radio chart model without explicit measurement
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:59 (five years ago)
not only does the title of the song contain its highest chart position, it will always contain its highest chart position for any chart assuming a positive functional relationship between chart and play count.
― cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:30 (five years ago)
"Baby One More Time"
"I'm a Slave 4 U" peaked at #4 in the UK.
― visiting, Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:41 (five years ago)
"777-9311" reached number two on the R&B charts and number 88 on the pop charts.
It has a "77" and a "11" in it, and those are two numbers, and if you add them together you get an 88, so I think this should count.
― del griffith, Saturday, 27 July 2019 21:30 (five years ago)
"Seven Nation Army" peaked at #7 in the UK
― jaymc, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:44 (five years ago)
It's not a single, but Mansun's Six neatly reached that position in the UK album chart.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:08 (five years ago)
Car 67 by Driver 67 got to number 7
(its pronounced six seven in the song)
― Mark G, Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:47 (five years ago)
stayin' alive by the bee gees reached #4 in the uk.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Sunday, 28 July 2019 21:06 (five years ago)
^ if only they'd done one long AAAAAAH instead of ah ah ah ah
― StanM, Monday, 29 July 2019 07:53 (five years ago)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Three_(song)
“In Canada it coincidentally finished at number 33 on the RPM Alternative 30 year-end chart for 1997.”
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Saturday, 5 September 2020 01:02 (four years ago)
Spice Girls, “2 Become 1”: #1 in several countries (including the UK), #2 in several others.(Sadly, when Faithless tried to pull the same trick a couple of years later with “We Come 1” they didn’t get higher than #2 or 3)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:38 (four years ago)
and, inspired in part by del griffith:”Number 9” by T-ara reached #5 in South Korea’s Gaon chart and #4 in its Hot 100, adding up to a combined peak of... number 9.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:39 (four years ago)