http://www.billboard.com/html/1000s/1000s.html

 

Interesting list, how many do you like/know?

Hate:

@8@ The Chipmunk song wth?

@66@ Bruce Connor/ Hey Baby made worse by DJ Otzi in 2001 and a World Cup verison of this reaching the Top10!!

@91@ Lesley Gore/ It's My Party

 

 

Like:

@34@ Elvis Presley/ Now Or Never

 

 

That's the first 100 done

My faves from 701-1000 (can't be arsed to go before that!)

 

717 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

723 Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love

752 EMF - Unbelievable

757 Mariah Carey - Emotions

761 P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss

772 Boyz II Men - End Of The Road

776 Snow - Informer

777 Silk - Freak Me

778 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes

782 Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

783 Janet Jackson - Again

788 R. Kelly - Bump N' Grind

790 Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You)

794 TLC - Creep

796 Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It

798 TLC - Waterfalls

 

801 Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise

802 Mariah Carey - Fantasy

808 2Pac featuring K-Ci & JoJo - How Do U Want It/California Love

811 Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre - No Diggity

813 Spice Girls - Wannabe

823 Janet Jackson - Together Again

827 K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life

830 Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine

832 Monica - The First Night

834 Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)

838 Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time

840 Cher - Believe

841 TLC - No Scrubs

850 Santana featuring Rob Thomas - Smooth

857 Aaliyah - Try Again

867 Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part I

869 Outkast - Ms. Jackson

870 Joe featuring Mystikal - Stutter

879 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

888 Eminem - Lose Yourself

899 Outkast - Hey Ya!

 

902 Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris - Yeah!

908 Ciara featuring Petey Pablo - Goodies

916 Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger

927 Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone - Ridin'

934 Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. - My Love

936 Beyonce - Irreplaceable

937 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right

946 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella

956 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

960 Coldplay - Viva La Vida

962 Rihanna - Disturbia

968 Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance

979 Jay-Z + Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind

984 B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You

998 Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me

 

Some terrible songs though - especially in the last 100.

Edited February 17, 201114 yr by superbossanova

This is SUCH a great list... I'm glad Billboard found youtube videos for all of them! I could probably spend hours on that site...

Does anyone have this chart in printable version?

too many good songs but good to see songs like smooth by santana there, i think on the 50th anniversary list of most successful songs on the billboard ever, I think it was in 2nd place

This is SUCH a great list... I'm glad Billboard found youtube videos for all of them! I could probably spend hours on that site...

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same. They should do that with the UK #1s too. It's nice to have a page where you can just scroll down and listen to them one at a time with ease. The way it is now, you have to keep searching for videos and stuff, and it can just get annoying, especially with the earlier years.

 

However, a few of the videos I tried didn't work, due to copyright issues. :angry:

I'm jealous of the US #1s list from the 1990s, tbh :(

 

So many amazing R&B songs that didn't get to #1 here because the UK was too busy embracing britpop and then quickly followed that by embracing cheesy pop. I mean, The Boy Is Mine was kept off #1 here by C'est La Vie. That says it ALL (although I do like CLV in a nostalgia way, but there's no doubt that TBIM is the far better song). And I LOVE that The First Night got to #1 in the US, lol, even if it was only because Monica was untouchable in that little period. Amazing song, anyway.

 

Ex-Factor should have got to #1 in the US instead of Doo Wop, though, although Doo Wop is also great. But Ex-Factor is one of the best R&B songs ever. I can't even fault it. It did much better in the UK peak-wise, which is weird :o

 

That said, I far prefer the UK #1s from 2000 onwards, with a few exceptions where the US definitely got it right, but the same can be said for any country, really.

Edited February 19, 201114 yr by superbossanova

Continuing the like and hate of the 1000 US No1s:

 

Like:

104- The Beatles/ I Want To Hold Your Hand

118- Roy Orbison/ Pretty Woman

168: The Supremes/ You Can't Hurry Love

219: The Archies/ Sugar Sugar :blush:

247: George Harrison/ My Sweet Lord

346: Carl Donglas/ Kung Fu Fighting

403: KC And The Sunshine Band/ Shake Shake Shake (Your Booty)

 

Hate:

112- Beach Boys/ I Get Around

155- Nancy Sinatra/ These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

213: Tommy Roe/ Dizzy

282: Chuck Berry/ My Ding A- Ling

325: Grand Funk/ The Loco-O Motion

441: Bee Gees/ Night Fever

460: Bee Gees/ Tragedy