I think Beyonce's "Baby Boy" and Big Brovaz "Baby Boy" charted at around the same time, so maybe those

Not quite the same, but both 'New York' by Paloma Faith and 'Empire State Of Mind' by Jay Z were in the chart at the same time at one. Both songs have New York in their chorus!

Yeah, I remember that actually cos I was thinking that there must have been some casual music listeners who mistakenly downloaded the Paloma Faith song thinking it was 'Empire State Of Mind'!

2 songs called Feel It entered and peaked at #41 in consecutive weeks in February 1995 (Hi-Lux and Carol Bailey).

 

2 songs called Deeper Love entered and peaked at #19 in consecutive weeks in May 1998 (Ruff Driverz and BBE - although the latter had (Symphonic Paradise) after it). Coincidentally a song called Feel It was #1 in the latter week.

 

Week ending 15/7/00 saw Steps - Summer Of Love (a double A-side with When I Said Goodbye) at #5, and Lonyo - Summer Of Love at #19 (down from #8).

 

Korn - Here To Stay charted at #12 in 2002 only 5 weeks after New Order's song of the same name charted at #15.

 

Week ending 28/12/02 had new entries called Wolf (Shy FX at #60) and The Wolf (Dave Clarke at #66).

 

Status Quo - Thinking Of You entered at #21 in 2004 only one week after Paul Weller charted at #18 with a song of the same title.

Were Christina Aguilera and Melanie C's songs both named I Turn To You charting at the same time in summer 2000 too?

 

There also seemed to be quite a few songs out called Forever in 2002 - N-Trance, Dee Dee, Trinty X, can't remember if any of them crossed but I bought all three on CD single!

2 songs called Feel It entered and peaked at #41 in consecutive weeks in February 1995 (Hi-Lux and Carol Bailey).

 

2 songs called Deeper Love entered and peaked at #19 in consecutive weeks in May 1998 (Ruff Driverz and BBE - although the latter had (Symphonic Paradise) after it). Coincidentally a song called Feel It was #1 in the latter week.

 

Week ending 15/7/00 saw Steps - Summer Of Love (a double A-side with When I Said Goodbye) at #5, and Lonyo - Summer Of Love at #19 (down from #8).

 

Korn - Here To Stay charted at #12 in 2002 only 5 weeks after New Order's song of the same name charted at #15.

 

Week ending 28/12/02 had new entries called Wolf (Shy FX at #60) and The Wolf (Dave Clarke at #66).

 

Status Quo - Thinking Of You entered at #21 in 2004 only one week after Paul Weller charted at #18 with a song of the same title.

Good work!

I am convinced that 'I Believe' by the Happy Clappers only got as high as it did on its re-issue (#21 in June 1995, #7 in November that year) because it was released at the same time as the Robson and Jerome song, and people thought they were buying either that or some sort of remix when they're actually completely different songs.

 

The only thing that goes against my theory is that a huge amount of songs called I Believe were released throughout the 1990s, so maybe not...

Gentleman by The Saturdays at #14 and Psy's Gentleman at #41 on the same week. Far from Top3/2/1, but oh well...

Devlin feat. Yasmin - Runaway and Kanye West feat. Pusha T - Runaway were in the chart together for 2 weeks, the latter of which they were #54 and #56.

The week Amy Studt charted at #14 with 'Just A Little Girl', Liberty X were at number 12 (or 16, depending on if my calculations are correct or not :lol:) with 'Just A Little'.

 

Also some more research:

 

ENTERED 20.06.1985: Jennifer Rush 'The Power of Love' | 65-49-51-45-44-47-46-44-43-47-49-42-36-15-2-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-4-5-10-27-21-22-35-33-35-48-62-73R(46)-63-55-72->36 Weeks

 

ENTERED 31.08.1985: Huey Lewis & The News 'The Power of Love' | 49-31-19-11-12-11-15-26-40-59-75R(14)-62-36-18-11-{9}-11-18-21-28-35-59->22 Weeks

 

And just to almost extend that a little bit, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's song of the same name left the charts in February/March 1985! Nearly had 3 different songs at one time!

I am convinced that 'I Believe' by the Happy Clappers only got as high as it did on its re-issue (#21 in June 1995, #7 in November that year) because it was released at the same time as the Robson and Jerome song, and people thought they were buying either that or some sort of remix when they're actually completely different songs.

 

The only thing that goes against my theory is that a huge amount of songs called I Believe were released throughout the 1990s, so maybe not...

I think this is the only example in the whole thread of two songs with exactly the same name being in the Top 10 the same week :)

 

Just looked it up and it seems there were 13 different songs called I Believe that charted in the 1990s :o (at least I assume none of them were covers of each other) although I believe (no pun intended :lol:) 'Stay' and 'Crazy' are still the joint most popular chart song titles.

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I have no idea about the all time most common song titles but I can provide decade to date stats as ever :magic: 5 titles have made the top 100 4+ times in the decade:

 

'Forever' (5)

The Churned (#94)

Chris Brown (#96 within the decade)

Drake feat. Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem (#42)

HAIM (#75)

Wolfgang Gartner feat. will.i.am (#43)

 

'Hold On' (4)

Rusko feat. Amber Coffman (#96)

Sean Paul (#86)

Skepta (#31)

Wilson Phillips (#63 within the decade)

 

'Home' (4)

Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros (#50)

Gabrielle Aplin (#48)

Michael Bublé (#61 within the decade)

Phillip Phillips (#60)

 

'Radioactive' (4)

Imagine Dragons (#12)

Kings Of Leon (#7)

Marina & The Diamonds (#25)

Rita Ora (#18)

 

'We Are Young' (4)

fun. feat. Janelle Monáe (#1)

Glee Cast (#56)

Rainbow Mix (#54)

We Are Young Singers (#78)

 

All 4 of the 'We Are Young' entries were versions of the same song but the rest are all different.

 

All the fake versions of 'I Love It' were spread over several variants of the title but that must be by far the most charted song of the decade with 7 different top 100 'versions' (at least 2 of which were exactly the same recording).

Which 2 were exactly the same recording? Was one of them the one that entered the Top 100 but not the Top 75? (I think I only have the 6 in the top 75 - Loreen Harris, Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX, New Music Masters, Venus Palermo, Remix Chix, Remix Junkies

Which 2 were exactly the same recording? Was one of them the one that entered the Top 100 but not the Top 75? (I think I only have the 6 in the top 75 - Loreen Harris, Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX, New Music Masters, Venus Palermo, Remix Chix, Remix Junkies

Remix Chix and Remix Junkies, I think one of them got deleted halfway through the week so they re-released it under a different name. Both charted in the same week.

Thanks Thermometer

Remix Chix and Remix Junkies were the 2 that were definitely the same (according to Doctor Blind anyway, I can't say I personally listened to either).

 

The 7th top 100 version was the Glee Cast version, which got to #90.

 

EDIT: Thermo beating me to everything today!

I have no idea about the all time most common song titles but I can provide decade to date stats as ever

I read somewhere that 'Stay' and 'Crazy' hold the record for number of different songs with that title to chart in the Top 75, with 'Angel' one behind. I'm pretty sure 'Home' and 'I Believe' were also in the Top 10.

 

November or December 1995 had "Wonderwall" in the top 40 twice in the same week.

November or December 1995 had "Wonderwall" in the top 40 twice in the same week.

Two versions of the same song though