What was #1 in the charts the day you were born?

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Inspired by a recent ILE thread. On my bd 02nov76, the champions of the chart were...

UK: 'Mississippi' - Pussycat

US: 'If You Leave Me Now' - Chicago

AUS: 'Dancing Queen' - Abba

Anyone know of good sites where I can check out other countries, such as Japan, Sweden, Iceland, India etc.?

― kinski (kinski), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Blondie - Heart of Glass.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably Bill Haley and the Comets or maybe Fats Waller

― panico (panico), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Boney M's 'Rivers Of Babylon'

this is a stealthy way of asking how old we are huh?

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

brotherhood of man "save your kisses for me".

which is a downer, really.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Another bummer for me: Tommy Roe, "Dizzy" -- especially a drag because the Zombies were at number one the week before with "Time of the Season". I always knew I was born too late.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

UK #1: Glad All Over - Dave Clark Five

US #1: There I've Said It Again - Bobby Vinton

UK #1 album: With The Beatles

US #1 album: The Singing Nun

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Cum On Feel The Noize

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

USA: "Like A Virgin", Madonna (oh hardy har har)

UK: "Do They Know It's Christmas?", Band Aid (which might explain my excitement over any and all sorts of big rock star get togheters, no matter how hideously sappy or self-congratulatory they may be)

R&B: "Always", Atlantic Starr

C&W: "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind?", George Strait (it doesn't)

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Boney M's 'Rivers Of Babylon'

Is this a Melodians cover?!?

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

UK: Summer Holiday - Cliff & The Shads!
US: Walk Like A Man - 4 Seasons

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Morrison Hotel by the Doors, I think.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

UK - Rubber Bullets, 10cc
US - My Love, Wings

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Culture Club + Huey Lewis if i remmeber right...

― vic (vicc13), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

9-20-77

US: The Emotions, "Best of My Love" (as sampled by De La! Hooray!)
UK: Some Elvis song (I forget which) since people were still recently mourning his death.

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Er, mourning his then-recent death, that is

― Nate Patrin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(it was "Way Down", Nate)

me: Beatles - Ticket To Ride
(or was that the no.1 on day I was conceived? - see mark s's old thread for confirmation)

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

U.K. -- Do It Again by The Beach Boys
U.S. -- People Got to be Free by The Rascals

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Christoff wins.

Is this a Melodians cover?!?

Yes, unfortunately. And believe me, nary a German middle aged beer fest is complete without a conga line dance to it.

― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

UK: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid

US: "Out of Touch" by Hall & Oates

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's the Dutch charts since 1965.

Where can I find these archives of US/UK/AUS charts?

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i love how the Prodigy's 'Voodoo People' and 'Poison' were both number 1 in wartime Croatia...i'd like to know what were the most extreme number one singles in various countries...in the UK its gotta be Iron Maiden's 'Bring Yer Daughter To The Slaughter' and Mr Oizo's 'Flat Beat'!

― blueski, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)."

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know "Young love" by Donny Osmand, but i have a feeling that it isn't as good as 'Voodoo Chile'.

it would be doubly cool if Marcello had come into the world proclaiming himself a voodoo chile while momentous riffage reverbarated around the maternity ward.
I wasn't there, but i'm assuming this wasn't the case.

― adam b (adam b), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

U.S.: "Paint It Black," The Rolling Stones.
U.K.: "Strangers in the Night," Frank Sinatra.

Is it just me, or does Sinatra out-goth the Stones here? But both charts rang up "Paperback Writer" at #1 when I was two days old, so happy harmonies ruled the day again.

― Matt C., Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Now how the hell did Adam know that?

I meant that "VC" was (is) the most extreme UK #1 single. For what actually was #1 when I emerged, see above.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

oh. it was the Tottenham Sound then. not *quite* as bitchin'.

voodoo chile is pretty extreme now you come to mention it. also contains some of the best boasting ever.

― adam b (adam b), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

UK single - Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)
UK album - Yazoo - You And Me Both
US single - The Police - Every Breath You Take
US album - The Police - Synchronicity

Super.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

UK single: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes (one of the best singles EVAH)

UK album: Roxy Music - Flesh and Blood

US single: Olivia Newton-John - Magic (fourth week at #1, good god, and the next week it was Sailing by Christopher Cross)

US album: Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (fifth week at #1, oh dear, the contrast makes me proud to be British)

German single: Lipps Inc - Funkytown (ninth week at #1, or something like that)

Dutch single: not *entirely* sure, but going by Siegbran's link, I think Abba's The Winner Takes It All had displaced Olivia Newton-John and ELO's Xanadu by the time of my birth (both had been UK #1 hits earlier in the year)

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

US: "Suspicious Minds" by Elvis Presley
UK: "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies

Those two pretty much encapsulate my personality.

caught in a trap and I can't back out,
keith

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

In the US: Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It for the Boy"
In the UK: Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"

Lucky lucky me.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 17 October 2002 03:29 (twenty-three years ago)

blondie - call me

― minna (minna), Thursday, 17 October 2002 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The Carnival is Over by The Seekers. Every time my girlfriend hears it she says "...well it was for your parents"

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 17 October 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

18 February 1975

UK: Pilot, "January," which I've never heard
US: Linda Ronstadt, "You're No Good," which is excellent

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

November 30, 1976

US: Rod Stewart, "Tonight's the Night"
UK: Chicago, "If You Leave Me Now"

― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh my God I want a do-over!

January 27, 1971

UK: Clive Dunn, "Grandad"
US: Tony Orlando & Dawn, "Knock Three Times"

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:42 (twenty-three years ago)

14th March, 1971

UK single: "Baby Jump" Mungo Jerry
US single: "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

where did you find this info?

― dsico (dsico), Thursday, 17 October 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I used http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/ - go for the link on the right 'your birthday no.1' - it only gives UK and US singles, I'm not sure where you can find out UK and US albums.

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 18 October 2002 07:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine:
US single: Olivia Newton-John, "Physical"
UK single: Bucks Fizz, "Land of Make Believe"

And the #1 single for the year: U2, "With or Without You"

― Steph (Steph), Friday, 18 October 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

January 1982 *and* 1987? is that a deliberate mistake?

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 19 October 2002 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

According to http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/top/1973.htm
AUS: Angie - The Rolling Stones
UK: I Love You Love Me Love - Gary Glitter
US: Photograph - Ringo Starr

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 19 October 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin--Who me? No mistake, they're both from the same year.
#1 Australian: Men at Work, "Down Under"

― Steph (Steph), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:13 (twenty-three years ago)

you don't bring me flowers - neil diamond & barbra streisand

thanks, mom.

only two days shy of 'le freak'... i wuz robbed.

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 19 October 2002 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Nov. 28, 1971

Dutch - "Soley soley" Middle of the Road (never heard of this)
UK - "Cuz I Love You" Slade
US - "Theme from Shaft" (I can dig that)

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Nov. 28, 1971

Dutch - "Soley soley" Middle of the Road (never heard of this)
UK - "Cuz I Love You" Slade
US - "Theme from Shaft" - ISAAC

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:50 (twenty-three years ago)

oops

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 19 October 2002 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)

'HOT LOVE'! T-Rex

― DavidM (DavidM), Saturday, 19 October 2002 10:32 (twenty-three years ago)

26 January 1974

US: You're Sixteen - Ringo Starr
UK: Tiger Feet - Mud

Neither of which, I've ever heard in my entire life.

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 19 October 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Holland: Bee gees - "Don't forget to remember:
UK: Zager And Evans - "In The Year 2525 (Exordium And Terminus)"
US: The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Woman"

― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 19 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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"Can't Buy Me Love," Beatles

― Jazzbo, Friday, 21 November 2008 16:22 (sixteen years ago)

"reunited," peaches & herb

― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Friday, 21 November 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago)

In France:

http://f3c.yahoofs.com/shopping/3096376/simg_t_oi82507fxmrt.jpg?rm_____DVX.JttFa

― Uncle Muncle (Michael White), Friday, 21 November 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

i have the same as dad a. (i guess that makes me dad b.)

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:07 (sixteen years ago)

Cher "Half-Breed"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

we are the world wtffffffffff

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 21 November 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

My date of birth is three months before the advent of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. LOL OLD.

― Dan Peterson, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

Aneka - "Japanese Boy" UK

"Endless Love" Diana Ross and Lionel Richie US

― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Friday, 21 November 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

i was sort of hoping it would "ghost town", oh well...

― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Friday, 21 November 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

I am as old as:
US - "Johnny Angel" by Shelley Fabares
UK - "Wonderful Land" by The Shadows

― energizing the base (briania), Friday, 21 November 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

psssssssssssssssssssh.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

i have the same as dad a. (i guess that makes me dad b.) - tipsy mothra

huh, for a sec i thought that post said that tipsy mothra and dad a. have the same dad...

anyhoo.
i'm no wiser than i was four years ago. i still have no clue what either of my two birthday-no1's (faiths, adam or percy) sounds like.

however, on the third hand i think i've heard the australian no.1 of that same time, emile ford's "what do you want to make those eyes at me for".

― t**t, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

"My Love" by Paul McCartney & Wings. If I'd been born a year later, it would have been "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot which is way more badass.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

Hey what do you know? I have the same birthday as Stu Sutcliffe and Steve Shelley. Who knew?

And apparently 10CC "Rubber Bullets" was the #1 song in the UK. I don't know what that is though.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

Elton John & Kiki Dee - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"

UK & US!

Colonel Poo and I are obviously very close in age.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

Wow. Upon further research I can say that Wings & 10CC is a pretty wimpy combo of hits. Even with the singing bearded drummer. Ouch.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 21 November 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

American Graffiti sdtk came out that year, was the first album I inherited, Wolfman Jack ended up on Midnight Special, Rock Around the Clock was the theme to both the movie and Happy Days, and all this defined a huge chunk of my youth.

http://www.uncasnetworks.com/xerb/photos/wolfman_graffiti.jpg

― The New Herb Stempel (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 22 November 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago)

Blondie: Heart of Glass
Bee Gees: Too much Heavan
Rod Stewart: Do you think I'm sexy

― fantasimundo, Saturday, 22 November 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago)

AUS: Snoopy vs The Red Baron - Royal Guardsmen
US & UK: I'm a Believer - The Monkees

― steampig67, Saturday, 22 November 2008 13:54 (sixteen years ago)

March 8 1981
Joe Dolce Music Theatre - "Shaddap You Face"

!!!

― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Saturday, 22 November 2008 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

UK: Brian and Michael - "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs (Lowry's Song)"
US: Bee Gees - "Night Fever"

Think 'll take the Bee Gees.

― Neil S, Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

I'll

― Neil S, Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago)

US: Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight
UK: Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never

you kids get off my lawn

― Brad C., Saturday, 22 November 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

uk - Rod Stewart, I Don't Want To Talk About It

― mmmm, Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago)

US: Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

― Millsner, Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago)

"Lily the Pink" by the Scaffold. Has to be some kind of cosmic irony in there somewhere.

― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

"Lean on Me" Club Nouveau

hmm

― enasinben, Saturday, 22 November 2008 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers....Why do fools fall in love..

― Lincolnshire, Sunday, 23 November 2008 06:32 (sixteen years ago)

Probably a dumb question but where can I check an archive with daily charts? Been trying to find the charts for my birthday (20 December 1985) and I can only find the charts for the year.

― Moka, Sunday, 23 November 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago)

^^^^^^^

billboard isn't giving me the info that i want (6 july 1982)

― Matt P, Sunday, 23 November 2008 09:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.onlineweb.com/theones/1985_1989.htm

UK No1s

― Lincolnshire, Monday, 24 November 2008 09:57 (sixteen years ago)

Cool, so my (tipsy's too?) UK birthday song:

― dad a, Monday, 24 November 2008 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

this is too awful, Ken Dodd - Tears. And it's surrounded by a sea of goodness too that year. Talk about ill-starred.

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 24 November 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

Presumably in your country of birth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8f2mW1GFSI

― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Monday, 24 June 2013 23:12 (twelve years ago)

huh i thought u were old

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:05 (twelve years ago)

Here in the UK it was Bowie's Let's Dance. Pretty happy with that now but when I was younger I looked it up and was gutted it wasn't Is There Something I Should Know? by Duran Duran which was at the top the month before. If I had been out on time I would have got my way, I was exactly a month late being born!

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:13 (twelve years ago)

LIKE A PRAYER, MADONNA.

i knew this off the top of my head. i looked it up in the past, before seeing this thread. i am very proud of this fact about myself.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:14 (twelve years ago)

In the US it was Come on Eileen. Chuffed with that as they're one of my three favourite bands ever.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:16 (twelve years ago)

that is a great song. i always loved the violins.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:17 (twelve years ago)

and still love them. idk why i used past tense.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:18 (twelve years ago)

It's one of those songs I've heard a thousand times but I never bet bored of it.

― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:22 (twelve years ago)

UB40 - Red Red Wine. Ouch.

― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:46 (twelve years ago)

Starship - We Built This City

Ugh.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:51 (twelve years ago)

that song isn't as bad as people say. sort of trite and sad because jefferson airplane ruled so hard in the 60s. but vh1 named it the worst song ever once and that was just bullshit, in my opinion. there are way worse songs.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 00:54 (twelve years ago)

Heart - "Alone"

I have 2 more rings than tree ship. this song sucks. I'm glad the '80s ended when they did.

― welke cd's als test cd voor nieuwe speakers?? (unregistered), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 01:51 (twelve years ago)

Dunno why I booed the Bee Gees upthread; I've got no strong opinion about "Massachusetts" one way or another

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:20 (twelve years ago)

in the u.s., phil collins "another day in paradise"

in my country of birth, roch voisine "hélène"

― dyl, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:31 (twelve years ago)

US, Jessie's Girl
UK, Shakin Stevens, Green Door
NZ, Stars on 45

― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 02:33 (twelve years ago)

"Physical" by Olivia Newton John. Piece of shit.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 25 June 2013 03:03 (twelve years ago)

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