Number One Hit Singles, whos title is featured in the song more than 16 times

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Arbitrary number, but an average song may state the title twice per chorus, lets say three chorusses, and maybe four times in a fadeout/playout, and 6 times at other places.

Right, so here goes with songs, number one hits, that over-run the quota. With total, if possible.

1. Paperback Writer, The Beatles (22 or thereabouts)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

No Limit!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

3. 'music sounds better with you'
4. 'around the world'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

No Good (probably).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

number ONES, Theorry

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

(oh no, I am THAT guy...but then I guess I always have been)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

'MSBWY' was number 1?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

i didn't read the thread title anyway

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

AATW was.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

no it wasn't. oh i am thinking of daft punk.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

"Call On Me" - Eric Prydz.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

mouldy old dough

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

So you were. I was thinking of Oasis.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

"Mouldy old dough" only sings the title four times.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Doop

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

'round round'

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Nope.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

is this a parody thread? i mean, why 16?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 2 December 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Because many number one songs mention the title. How many do it to distraction?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

"Turning Japanese"

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

19 - paul hardcastle
doop - doop

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Did Lighthouse Family's 'Lifted' get to #1?

Oasis 'Some Might Say'

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Help (The Beatles) ---- not sure how many times the word Help appears in the song, but it's a lot

― andyjack (andyjack), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Help has a total of 17.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

"I should be so lucky. " I don't think there was any other text in the song.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

So it's more than 16, but I want to know how you know it's got 17, unless you just sung it to yourself and counted!

― andyjack (andyjack), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

"Hollaback Girl"

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Lose My Breath, right?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Macarena.

― mike a, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

"Ask" by the Smiths, surely.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I should be so lucky, four times each chorus, none per verse, needs 4 chorusses at least. I think it's safe to say this qualifies.

Help, yeah, I ran it through and counted.

The others weren't number ones as far as I know.

xpost including that one.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Has My Humps hit #1 yet?

― js (honestengine), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

"Run It" says "run it" eight times per chorus, and I'm pretty sure there are at least three choruses, so that probably applies.

"Hey Ya" says it four times a chorus, but the chorus is repeated fairly endlessly at the end, so I bet it tops at over 16. Same with "The Way You Move".

"Slow Motion" also says it's title eight times per chorus and there are definitely at least three choruses.

"Lean Back," obv.

All these are just in the last two years, so I bet there are a ton of songs that do this.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

"Everybody dance now", I'd assume

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

"Pick up the Pieces" by the Average White Band

May be only 15 though.

― Swamp Thing (Swamp Thing), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Would that be "Gonna make you sweat" by C&C Music factory? xpost.

Rest were number ones?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

What an idiotic/irresistable topic for a thread. Did Bowie's "Modern Love" hit #1? Howbout that crap George Harrison hit "I Got My Mind Set On You" (deservedly parodied Weird Al Yankovic)? Too bad about the title "Brother Louie", a huge #1 hit with DOZENS of "Louie"s yet nary a single "brother".

"Beat It" definitely has at least 16 repetitions. (You just KNOW I'll have to do an exact count once I get home tonight, if I think of it.)

I don't think there's more than 7-8 "Pick Up The Pieces" in said song, unless there's an extended version I've never heard of.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

"Who Are You"

Did that make it to #1? I bet not.

― footlog, Friday, 2 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Hey Jude

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

"Got My Mind Set on You" isn't bad, though the # of "Set on You"s >>>> the # of "Got My Mind Set on You"s.

"Modern Love" and "Who are You" didn't go #1.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

and Get Back (30 times i think, Hey Jude is 34)

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Not a number one, (only a #5) But Paul Johnson's 1999 hit "Get Get Down" consists of the word "Get" 52 times and no fewer than 246 repetitions of the word "Down." (What's more, this is the original version not an extended mix)

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Go to google, type the title of the song and "lyric", and (important this) select the cache version.

This gives you the lyric with the title's use highlit, making it easy to count.

"Beat It" gets a total of 73.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

But it wasn't UK number one (number three). Must have been in the US, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Blinded by the Light, '77, Manfred Mann.

― footlog, Friday, 2 December 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Call Me-Blondie, right?

― tektronica, Saturday, 3 December 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

heaven 17, "fascist groove thang"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 3 December 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

"Jack Your Body" obv.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 4 December 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Looks like Geir is the winner.

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 4 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

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