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Let's see how this thread goes. I was interested in what music was in the top 40 the week I was born. The Billboard site has the top ten archived all the way to 1955, so, I couldn't get the top 40. Anyway, you can go to the following link and click on View Chart Archives at the top and enter your birth date, and see what was at the top of the charts the week you were born:

http://www.billboard.com/charts#/charts/hot-100 (http://www.billboard.com/charts#/charts/hot-100)

Just include the top ten, not your age. It will make it more fun to guess the year in which you were born. It's also an interesting commentary on how many songs in the past were hugely popular but have been long forgotten. Have fun. Here's mine:

1.  "The Sir With Love" by Lulu
2.  "Soul Man" by Sam and Dave
3.  "Incense and Peppermints" by Strawberry Alarm Clock
4.  "The Rain, The Park and Other Things" by The Cowsills
5.  "It Must Be Him" by Vikki Carr
6.  "Please Love Me Forever" by Bobby Vinton
7.  "Your Precious Love" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
8.  "Say a Little Prayer" by Dionne Warwick
9.  "Expressway to Your Hear" by Soul Survivors
10. "I Can See For Miles" By The Who

1.) "Jump" by Van Halen
2.) "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club
3.) "99 Luftballoons" by Nena
4.) "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper
5.) "Thriller" by Michael Jackson
6.) "Joanna" by Kool
7.) "Nobody Told Me" by John Lennon
8.) "Let The Music Play" by Shannon
9.) "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by The Police
10.) "An Innocent Man" by Billy Joel

Cool idea for a thread. But honestly I have no clue as to the year for yours Flick...assuming 1960s for you? Happy must be an early 80s Kid I'm guessing probably 1984.

Anyways, here's mine:

1. "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Glady Knight & the Pips
2. "Angie" by the Rolling Stones
3. "Half-Breed" by Cher
4. "Ramblin Man" by the Allman Brothers Band
5. "Keep On Truckin" by Eddie Kendricks
6. "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
7. "Paper Roses" by Mary Osmond
8. "Heartbeat - It's a Love Beat" by the DeFranco Family
9. "That Lady (Part 1)" by the Isley Brothers
10. "Higher Ground" by Stevie Wonder

http://www.billboard.com/charts#/charts/hot-100?chartDate=1979-03-26

Yeah.  Early '84.

I'm guessing by yours it's around '73 or so?

01 Melanie - Brand New Key
02 Don McLean - American Pie Parts I & II
03 Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair
04 Three Dog Night - An Old Fashioned Love Song
05 Michael Jackson - Got To Be There
06 The Chi-Lites - Have You Seen Her
07 Dennis Coffey - Scorpio
08 Jonathan Edwards - Sunshine
09 David Cassidy - Cherish
10 Donny Osmond - Hey Girl

Yes Happy, November 73 in fact.  :thumbup:

1. Someday (Mariah Carey)
2. One More Try (Timmy T.)
3. Show Me the Way (Styx)
4. Coming Out of the Dark (Gloria Estefan)
5. All This Time (Sting)
6. This House (Tracie Spencer)
7. All the Man I Need (Whitney Houston)
8. Get Here (Oleta Adams)
9. Where Does My Heart Beat Now (Celine Dion)
10. Hold You Tight (Tara Kemp)

I'm definately the oldest so far. 1967.

Mine counts a b-side as an entry so it kinda shows only the top 9.

9: I'll meet you halfway- Partridge Family
8: Joy to the world- Three Dog Night
7: Indian reservation- Raiders
6: Treat her like a lady- Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
5: It don't come easy- Ringo Starr
4: Brown sugar- Rolling Stones
3: Want ads- Honey Cone
2: Rainy days and Mondays- Carpenters
1: I feel the Earth move/It's too late- Carole King

1 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
2. This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert
3. Mony Mony - Tommy James
4. Yummy Yummy Yummy - Ohio Express
5. MacArthur Park - Richard Harris
6. Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells
7. Think - Aretha Franklin
8. A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals
9. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Hugo Montenegro
10. The Look Of Love - Sergio Mendes

Claws - 1970?
InfoGeek - 1992?
Retro - 1968?

Getting warmer!   :teddyr:

"Sorry. There is no chart data for this week. Please try another, more recent chart."
 :bluesad:

I would try entering a date in the following week. How much different could it be?

Did that.  Let's just say I made my entrance with "Witch Doctor"; between "Tequila" and "The Purple People Eater".

1: "Sailing" Christopher Cross;
2: "Upside Down" Diana Ross;
3: "Magic" Olivia Newton John;
4: "Emotional Rescue" Rolling Stones;
5: "Take Your Time (Do It Right) The S.O.S Band;
6: "Fame" Irene Cara;
7: "All Out Of Love" Air Supply;
8: "Give Me The Night" George Benson;
9: "Let My Love Open The Door" Pete Twonsend;
10: "More Love" Kim Carnes.

Just before Billboard started charting the Top 40 every week...  :wink:

Rev. Powell: 1968
Claws, Retrorussel: 1971
JJ80:  Duh!  1980!  :teddyr:

Informationgeek: I have no idea; too late for me.  1991?

1. Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
2. Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply
3. Islands In the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
4. True - Spandau Ballet
5. All Night Long - Lionel Richie
6. One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
7. King of Pain - The Police
8. Delirious - Prince
9. Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
10. Telefone - Sheena Easton

Not too bad.  I like #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9.

1972

 :buggedout: :buggedout: Yikes, I feel old, old, old! But not really: some classics here:

1. Ode To Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry)
2. Reflections (The Supremes)
3. Come Back When You Grow Up (Peter Vee)
4. Baby I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
5. The Letter (The Box Tops)
6. All You Need Is Love (The Beatles)
7. You're My Everything (The Temptations)
8. Light My Underpants Fire (The Doors)  :wink:
9. Peaches (Jay and The Techniques)
10. San Francisco Nights (The Animals)

 :teddyr:

1)  A pop-up ad with the words "...Our Love Go" sticking out from under it.
2)  Everybody Loves Somebody by Dean Marttin
3)  A Hard Days Night by the Beatles
4)  Under the Boardwalk by The Drifters
5)  covered by pop-up ad
6)  covered by pop-up ad
7)  Because - The Dave Clark Five
8)  Walk-Don't Run -The Ventures
9)  Wishin' And Hopin' - Dusty Springfield
10)  How Do You Do It? - Gerry & The Pacemakers

1.) I Wish - Stevie Wonder
2.) Car Wash - Rose Royce
3.) You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
4.) Brick - Dazz
5.)  You Don't Have To Be A Star - Marilyn McCoo
6.) Hot  -  The Sylvers
7.) New Kid In Town - The Eagles
8.) After The Lovin - Engelbert Humperdinck
9.) Blinded By The Light
10.) Torn Between Two Lovers - Mary MacGregor

DS: 1976, 1977?  :smile:

01.) Yesterday - The Beatles
02.) Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
03.) Treat Her Right - Roy Head
04.) Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
05.) The "In" Crowd - Ramsey Lewis
06.) Catch Us If You Can - The Dave Clark Five
07.) You've Got Your Troubles - The Fortunes
08.) Baby Don't Go - Sonny and Cher
09.) You Were On My Mind - We Five
10.) Do You Believe In Magic - The Lovin' Spoonful

1. Jack & Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
2. Who Can It Be Now? - Men at Work
3. Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
4. Hard to Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
5. Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
6. I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) - Michael McDonald
7. Somebody's Baby - Jackson Browne
8. You Can Do Magic - America
9. Heart Attack - Olivia Newton-John
10. I Ran (So Far Away) - Flock of Seagulls

1. Woman In Love - Barbara Streisand
2. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen  :thumbup:
3. He's So Shy - Pointer Sisters
4. Lady - Kenny Rogers  :bouncegiggle:
5. Real Love - Doobie Brothers
6. The Wanderer - Donna Summer
7. Upside Down - Diana Ross
8. Never Knew Love Like This Before - Stephanie Mills
9. I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
10. Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder

Man, looking at these lists almost makes me wish I was born in the 60s.  Almost  :wink:

Trev, you're right about that year :thumbup:


Ulthar 1968 (?)

Chaos I'll venture 1981

Pilger I'll guess 1987

Nope.  Back up a bit more..   :bouncegiggle:

Damn, I'll try one more time...1964

Jack I'm going to say 1969 although I always thought 1943  :bouncegiggle:

Correct.

Jim H: 1981?
Trevor: 1968?
Ulthar: 1965?
Pilgermann: 1980?
Chaos Theory: 1979?

Ha, I'm actually a tad older than you think  :teddyr: 

Pilgermann I'm guessing 1982.  Those songs were all super popular when I was in high school.  Which is depressing.

My favorite top 10 posted so far.

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
Debby Boone - You Light Up My Life
Linda Ronstadt - Blue Bayou
L.T.D. - Every Time I turn Around (Back In Love Again)
Linda Ronstadt - It's So Easy
Player - Baby Come Back
Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again
Bob Welch - Sentimental Lady
Paul Simon - Slip Slidin Away

what a wimpy and slushy top 10 lol

You must have been a New Year's baby, as most of those records were released late 1971...  :teddyr:
Jack: 1964
Ulthar: 1965
Trevor: 1967
Darksider: 1976
DCA: 1977

yes, well done  :thumbup:

I am marvelling over how much pop music doesn't stand the test of time. Look at just about every one so far, and how many of those songs do you actually listen to or hear played nowadays. Yes, music from bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osborne, just to mention a scant few, which were not included on ANY of these lists, are still avidly listened to and heard on classic rock stations, in films, etc.

And...


 :thumbup: :thumbup:

(sorry I did not get to respond fast enough)

Yup, ya got me  :teddyr:

Well, guys, I readily confess it was THE BEATLES' records that appeared in your lists that tipped me off to the likely year of your births.  

I think y'meant "yet".  And I will point out that the "Top 10" was rarely AOR. 

I'd agree with those sentiments. 

Although, mine did have Billly Joel, Van Halen, Lennon, and Michael Jackson.  Joel still gets some play, as does Van Halen and Jackson.  Lennon too.

April 11, 1964.  An astounding 5 of the top 10 were by the Beatles.

I agree also but don't forget Led Zeppelin didn't release any singles so that's why they're not in any lists.  but yeah, all the above are real 'album bands', and those are the ones more likely to have musical longevity than singles artists who are more often than not most well known for their greatest hits compilations (hello Tom Jones...). obviously there's exceptions like Beatles etc

Good points. I know that AOR bands didn't tend to release singles, but I was marvelling mainly over how much single-oriented pop music tends not to stand the test of time, whether the song is great or not.

Stairway to Heaven got a fair amount of airplay although is wasn't a single and was a far longer track than was customary for airplay, mostly on more AOR oriented rock stations in the 70's. There was a theory I read somewhere that the popularity of Stairway was due in part because a) it was a long song, giving those drugged out 70's rock DJs and opportunity to disappear to smoke a bowl/do a line/etc. and b) Led Zeppelin was such rock royalty that it was the only song of such length where they could justify that amount of airplay. I wonder how true that is. It amuses me to think that the apetite for drugs by rock DJs in the 70's is partly responsible for the popularity and overplaying of this rock staple.

Close, you and Rev were both off by one year  :smile:

I'm guessing 1982 for Jim H and Pilger?

 

:bluesad:

This should be easy:

1.Can t Fight This Feeling-REO Speedwagon
2.Material Girl-Madonna
3.One More Night-Phil Collins
4.The Heat Is On-Glenn Frey
5.Too Late For Goodbyes-Julian Lennon
6.Lover Girl-Teena Marie
7.Private Dancer-Tina Turner
8,High On You-Survivor
9.Only The Young-Journey
10.Relax-Frankie Goes To Hollywood

1985 (possibly 1984).  I know I was in high school at the time.  This list should disprove Circus' theory that pop music was better in the 1980s!

1. Cream - Prince and the N.P.G.

2. Can't Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams

3. When a Man Loves a Woman - Michael Bolton

4. It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boys II Men

5. Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - P.M. Dawn

6. Set the Night to Music - Roberta Flack with Maxi Priest

7. O.P.P - Naughty by Nature

8. That's What Love is For - Amy Grant

9. Romantic - Karyn White

10. Don't Cry - Guns N Roses

'91  ?

I know it would be easy to cheat and google, but that's my guess. I know Naughty By Nature's first album is '91 and so is Use Your Illusion. but sometimes singles come out way in advance or way after an album though...

That's correct!

You're making me feel old . . . and sadly some of these are among the more recent tunes in my iPod . . .

I would definately say 1984. 1985 is a bit late for some of these. I would guess Relax was just entering the top 10 because many of the rest were released in 1983.

DCA -

1991 is correct! Good guess!