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#1 Songs on Hot 100 that should have been

Markieo said:
"Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs stalled at #2 for 2 weeks, but was on the charts for an incredible 18 weeks, Billboard declared it the #1 song of 1965! ;)
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Yep...amazing as it seems, Satisfaction...which is usually the consensus #1 on most year end charts for 65..finished third to Wolly B and Sugar Pie on Billboard.....good one M. I think the Billboard chart is the definitive one.
 
Interesting situation happened in the spring of 1978 during the height of Saturday Night Fever when the BeeGees' "Night Fever" hit #1, and their previous chart-topper "Stayin' Alive" resurged to #2 the same week. If "Stayin' Alive" had been able to retake the #1 position away from its own followup single, that probably would have been the first time in chart history that any artist had ever had one of their own hits knocked out of #1 by their own previous single coming back to life! :eek: Or to put it the other way, it also would have been the only time that a single bumped its own followup single off the top of the charts! (There have been a handful of times that an artist's #1 hit was replaced by their own followup, but never a time when a single was knocked off by its own predecessor.)

(The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" was knocked off the top spot by "She Loves You," but the latter was reissued by Swan records in the wake of the success of the former, so it doesn't count here. Rereleases don't count.)
 
The Latter re-release of "She Loves You" Is The Swan Black Label 1964, The white swan label of "She Loves You" is From 1963, and might pre-date the capitol Issue....this is probably the most counterfeit Beatles 45.....so which color label was the single that hit #1??
 
The ultimate injustice (as far as I'm concerned), Steve Miller Band's #1 hit "Rock'in Me" did not show up in the year-end surveys for either 1976 or 1977! At that time, Billboard's cutoff date for the end of one survey year and the beginning of the next was the last week of October/first week of November. "Rock'n Me" was #1 for only one week, and that week was the first week of November, 1976. It spent 14 weeks in the top 40, and entered the chart over Labor Day weekend of 1976. So it had slightly more than half its chart run in the 1976 survey year, but hit #1 during the first week of the 1977 survey year! :'(
 
firepoint525 said:
1976
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Speaking of '76, did "Disco Duck" really have to make #1?? No offense to Rick Dees, but #1?
I think Lou Rawls would have been happy with a number one single instead.
 
oldies76 said:
firepoint525 said:
1976
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Speaking of '76, did "Disco Duck" really have to make #1?? No offense to Rick Dees, but #1?
I think Lou Rawls would have been happy with a number one single instead.
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Novelty songs tend to sell very quickly, but they also tend to fall out of favor just as quickly. In other words, if you don't like it, wait 15 minutes and it will be gone. Kinda like what we say about the weather here in Tennessee.
 
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