Showing posts with label Billboard Chart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Billboard Chart. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2018

Gloria Estefan "Everlasting Love"

Everyone from Carl Carlton to U2 to Gloria Estefan has recorded "Everlasting Love". The song charted on the Billboard Top 40 in the 1960s, '70s, 80's, and '90s. It is only one of two songs to accomplish this feat.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Savage Garden "Truly Madly Deeply"

How do you become the #1 Billboard Adult Contemporary Song of all-time? Just ask Savage Garden as the Australian group released "Truly Madly Deeply" in 1997 yet the infectious ballad never fell off the Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents Chart until June of 2006.

Monday, October 2, 2017

The Escape Club "Wild, Wild West"

Can you name the only British band to have a #1 song in the US while never charting a song back home in the UK?  Hint: you're reading a blog post about the song.  "Wild Wild West" hit #1 for The Escape Club at the end of 1988 resulting in this factoid (bonus: the look on that guy's face in the video).

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Whitney Houston - "I'm Your Baby Tonight"

On the list of Top Whitney Houston songs, where would you rank "I'm Your Baby Tonight"?  The song itself is her fifth most successful song on the Billboard Chart reaching #1 on the Hot 100 and spending 19 weeks on the charts between 1990 and 1991.

Entertainment Weekly placed the song at #18 (out of 25)
BET placed it at #23 (out of 40)