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 9th March 2022, 07:48 AM
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1974 The Streak - Ray Stevens
1979 Cars - Gary Numan 1982 I Don’t Wanna Dance - Eddy Grant 1984 I Just Called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder 1986 A Different Corner - George Michael 1987 Jack Your Body - Steve “Silk” Hurley 1996 Jesus to a Child - George Michael 1997 I Believe I Can Fly - R Kelly 1999 Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz 1999 Flat Beat - Mr Oizo 2003 Ignition - R Kelly 2006 Put Your Hands Up for Detroit - Fedde Le Grand 2009 I’m Not Alone - Calvin Harris 2013 Animals - Martin Garrix 2014 Happy - Pharrell Williams 2014 Summer - Calvin Harris 2022 Starlight - Dave 2022 Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush This post has been edited by chartjack2: 17th June 2022, 04:42 PM |
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9th March 2022, 08:58 AM
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I know she's never had a UK #1 but Debbie Gibson self-wrote and self-produced her two US #1s 'Foolish Beat' and 'Lost In Your Eyes', the former being the record for the youngest person ever to write and produce a #1 entirely on their own - she was 17 at the time which is pretty phenomenal!
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9th March 2022, 09:22 AM
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Alan Jones did a piece around the time Shotgun got to #1 about self-written #1s (of which Shotgun wasn't one but Paradise would have been) - some like Perfect would have been produced by others, but I'm sure Sak Noel - Loca People was one of them that would have been self-produced as well.
Edit: found the link - it also mentions Mike Posner’s I Took A Pill In Ibiza, Mr. Probz’s Waves, Dizzee Rascal’s Dirtee Disco and Owl City’s Fireflies as well as Tori Amos’ Professional Widow, although I think most of those were produced by others in the hit versions at least. This post has been edited by jimwatts: 9th March 2022, 09:32 AM |
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9th March 2022, 09:25 AM
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Tori Amos - Professional Widow, maybe?
the original was written and produced by Tori solo. But of course the version that got to #1 was the Van Helden Remix but not sure who produced that, if Van Helden only counts as Remixer or also as Producer |
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9th March 2022, 09:55 AM
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Prince - most beautiful girl in the world
Gary Numan - cars Eddy Grant- I don't wanna dance Stevie Wonder - I just called to say I love you Steve silk Hurley - Jack your body Ray Stevens- the streak This post has been edited by fiesta: 9th March 2022, 10:20 AM |
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9th March 2022, 09:56 AM
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Isn't Daniel Bedingfield's 'Gotta Get Thru This' also famously self-penned and produced?
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9th March 2022, 10:03 AM
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The US have one this week with Glass Animals! (Written and produced solely by Dave Bayley).
Quite a coincidence that both the Uk and US will have their first one-person written and produced songs in quite some time... but both with different songs at the top! |
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9th March 2022, 10:08 AM
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GGTT has D'n'D Productions credited as producers alongside Bedingfield
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 9th March 2022, 10:12 AM
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QUOTE(chartjack2 @ Mar 9 2022, 07:48 AM)  So Dave has no only been the sole songwriter on Starlight (a rare thing these days), but he’s also the sole producer. Lol the credits may say Dave is the sole songwriter but it uses a cover version of 'Fly me to the Moon' written by Bart Howard, popularised by Frank Sinatra, very prominently. So it's like a fake credit. |
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9th March 2022, 12:34 PM
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Yeah I'm not sure how he has been legally allowed to claim sole writing credits, I assume there must be some other arrangement to give some royalties over for the sample as there's surely no way such a major release would be dropped with an uncleared sample.
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9th March 2022, 01:37 PM
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I know one, Daniel Bedingfield with If You're Not The One
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9th March 2022, 01:51 PM
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QUOTE(adrianreavill83 @ Mar 9 2022, 01:37 PM) I know one, Daniel Bedingfield with If You're Not The One Wrong - he wrote it but didn't produce it. |
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9th March 2022, 02:11 PM
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QUOTE(Daan @ Mar 9 2022, 10:08 AM) GGTT has D'n'D Productions credited as producers alongside Bedingfield Oh yes, for the Radio Edit of course. But he did write and produce the original version all by his lonesome. Of course the Radio Edit was the one on the charts... |
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9th March 2022, 03:09 PM
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according to Genius, the Dave song is written by Dave but samples
Fly me to the Moon by Angelina Jordan Genius mentions him as producer but also lists 3 additional producers: Additional Producers Jonny Leslie, Elisa Caleb & Jo Caleb |
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9th March 2022, 04:51 PM
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I thought the version in the Dave track was the one from Squid Game.
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9th March 2022, 07:06 PM
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I take issue with the crediting of I Took A Pill in Ibiza as a self written and produced song to get to No 1, it literally only got to No 1 because of Seebs remixing work.
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9th March 2022, 07:25 PM
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That's true^ not a single person gave a hoot about the original version.
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9th March 2022, 08:27 PM
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Put Your Hands Up For Detroit vocal is sampled from other song afaik
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9th March 2022, 08:31 PM
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Calvin Harris I'm Not Alone?
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9th March 2022, 10:47 PM
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QUOTE(Mangø @ Mar 9 2022, 08:58 AM) I know she's never had a UK #1 but Debbie Gibson self-wrote and self-produced her two US #1s 'Foolish Beat' and 'Lost In Your Eyes', the former being the record for the youngest person ever to write and produce a #1 entirely on their own - she was 17 at the time which is pretty phenomenal! I have always loved In your eyes, i was really disappointed it didnt do much better in the UK. |
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