Posted May 24, 201411 yr dance seems to be a major chart force, with the genre getting tons of UK #1 singles recently. So I thought it would be nice to have this resource. It will be pinned for a short time but also will be added to the links section of the Welcome thread if you want easy access to it. As with any thread like this, there are some songs that can arguably be dance or not dance. I've used wikipedia to help get classifications of sub-genres that the songs belong to. Here goes: 1977 1. Donna Summer - I Feel Love / Hi-NRG / 4 weeks 1978-1981 No Dance #1s 1982 2. Kraftwerk - The Model/Computer Love / Electro-synthpop / 1 week 1983-1984 No Dance #1s 1985 3. Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) / Hi-NRG / 2 weeks 4. Paul Hardcastle - 19 / Electro-synthpop / 5 weeks 1986 No Dance #1s 1987 5. Steve 'Silk' Hurley - Jack Your Body / Chicago house / 2 weeks 6. M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume / Acid house / 2 weeks 1988 7. S'Express - Theme From S-Express / Acid house / 2 weeks 8. The Timelords - Doctorin' the Tardis / Electronic / 1 week 9. Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up / Acid house / 5 weeks 1989 10. Soul II Soul feat. Caron Wheeler - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) / Dance / 4 weeks 11. Black Box - Ride on Time / Italo house / 6 weeks 1990 12. Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me / Dub / 4 weeks 13. Snap! - The Power / Eurodance / 2 weeks 14. Madonna - Vogue / House / 4 weeks 15. Adamski feat. Seal - Killer / Acid house / 4 weeks 16. England New Order - World In Motion / House / 2 weeks 1991 17. Enigma - Sadeness (Part I) / Downtempo / 1 week 18. The KLF feat. The Children of The Revolution - 3 a.m. Eternal / House / 2 weeks 1992 19. KWS - Please Don't Go / Eurodance / 5 weeks 20. Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer / Eurodance / 6 weeks 21. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode / Acid house / 4 weeks 1993 22. 2 Unlimited - No Limit / Eurodance / 5 weeks 23. Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own (Remix) / House / 2 weeks 24. Culture Beat - Mr. Vain / Eurodance / 4 weeks 1994 25. D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better / Eurodance / 4 weeks 26. Doop - Doop / Eurodance / 3 weeks 27. Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing / Eurodance / 1 week 28. Whigfield - Saturday Night / Eurodance / 4 weeks 29. Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy / Breakbeat Hardcore / 2 weeks 1995 30. Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe / Eurodance / 3 weeks 31. The Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) / Hip House / 1 week 32. Livin' Joy - Dreamer / Italio House / 1 week 33. The Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom / Hip House / 4 weeks 34. Simply Red - Fairground / Dance-pop (house influenced) / 4 weeks 1996 35. The Prodigy - Firestarter / Big Beat / 3 weeks 36. Gina G - Ooh Aah… Just a Little Bit / Eurodance / 1 week 37. The Chemical Brothers feat. Noel Gallagher - Setting Sun / Big Beat / 1 week 38. The Prodigy - Breathe / Big Beat / 2 weeks 1997 39. Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) / Speed Garage / 1 week 40. White Town - Your Woman / Electronica / 1 week 41. The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats / Big Beat / 1 week 42. Olive - You're Not Alone / Breakbeat / 2 weeks 43. Aqua - Barbie Girl / Bubblegum Dance / 4 weeks 1998 44. Aqua - Doctor Jones / Bubblegum Dance / 2 weeks 45. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) / Big Beat / 1 week 46. Madonna - Frozen / Electronica / 1 week 47. Run-D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That / Hip House / 6 weeks 48. The Tamperer feat. Maya - Feel It / Italo House / 1 week 49. Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground / Funk / 1 week 50. Spacedust - Gym and Tonic / House / 1 week 51. Cher - Believe / Eurodance / 7 weeks 1999 52. Fatboy Slim - Praise You / Trip Hop / 1 week 53. Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - U Don't Know Me / House / 1 week 54. Mr. Oizo - Flat Beat / Electro-House / 2 weeks 55. Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate / UK Garage / 2 weeks 56. Vengaboys - Boom Boom Boom Boom / Eurodance / 1 week 57. ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) / Trance / 2 weeks 58. Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza / Eurodance / 1 week 59. Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) / Eurodance / 3 weeks 60. Wamdue Project - King of My Castle / House / 1 week 2000 61. Chicane feat. Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up / Trance / 1 week 62. Fragma - Toca's Miracle / Trance / 2 weeks 63. Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) / 2-Step Garage / 1 week 64. Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby / House / 1 week 65. Sonique - It Feels So Good / Breakbeat / 3 weeks 66. Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me / House / 1 week 67. Melanie C - I Turn To You (Remix) / Trance / 1 week 68. Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) / House / 1 week 69. Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight) / Disco-House / 2 weeks 2001 70. Rui da Silva - Touch Me / House / 1 week 71. DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It? / 2-Step Garage / 1 week 72. Roger Sanchez - Another Chance / House / 1 week 73. So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds / 2-Step Garage / 1 week 74. Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This / UK Garage / 3 weeks 2002 75. Elvis Presley vs. JXL - A Little Less Conversation / Big Beat / 4 weeks 76. DJ Sammy & Yanou feat. Do - Heaven / Trance / 1 week 2003 77. Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv / Disco-House / 4 weeks 78. Tomcraft - Loneliness / Trance / 1 week 2004 79. LMC vs. U2 - Take Me To The Clouds Above / House / 2 weeks 80. DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide / House / 1 week 81. Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme / Disco-House / 1 week 82. 3 Of A Kind - Babycakes / Garage / 1 week 83. Eric Prydz - Call On Me / Progressive House / 5 weeks 2005 84. Crazy Frog - Axel F / Eurodance / 4 weeks 85. Gorillaz feat. Shaun Ryder - DARE / Alternative Dance / 1 week 86. Madonna - Hung Up / Disco-House / 3 weeks 2006 87. Meck feat. Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again / Disco-House / 2 weeks 88. Madonna - Sorry / Disco-House / 1 week 89. Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit / Electro-House / 1 week 2007 90. Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat / Electronica / 1 week 2008 91. Basshunter feat. DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheadz - Now You're Gone / Eurodance / 5 weeks 92. Mint Royale - Singin' in the Rain / Garage-House / 2 weeks 93. Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance With Me / Hip House / 4 weeks 2009 94. Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone / Progressive House / 1 week 95. Dizzee Rascal feat. Armand van Helden - Bonkers / Electro-House / 2 weeks 96. David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over / Progressive House / 1 week 97. Cascada - Evacuate the Dancefloor / Electro-Dance / 2 weeks 98. The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling / Electro-Dance / 2 weeks 99. David Guetta feat. Akon - Sexy Chick / Electro-Dance / 1 week 100. Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Holiday / Electro-Dance / 1 week 2010 101. Roll Deep feat. Jodie Connor - Good Times / Electro-Grime / 3 weeks 102. David Guetta feat. Chris Willis, Fergie & LMFAO - Getting' Over You / Electro-House / 1 week 103. Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup - We No Speak Americano / Swing House / 1 week 104. Flo Rida feat. David Guetta - Club Can't Handle Me / Hip-House / 1 week 105. Roll Deep feat. Tania Foster - Green Light / Electro-Grime / 1 week 2011 106. LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem / Electro-House / 4 weeks 107. Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything / Electro-House / 3 weeks 108. Example - Changed the Way You Kiss Me / Electro-House / 2 weeks 109. DJ Fresh feat. Sian Evans - Louder / Dubstep / 1 week 110. Nero - Promises / Dubstep / 1 week 111. Example - Stay Awake / Electro-Dance / 1 week 112. Sak Noel - Loca People / Electro-House / 1 week 113. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris - We Found Love / Electro-House / 6 weeks 2012 114. David Guetta feat. Sia - Titanium / Electro-House / 1 week 115. DJ Fresh feat. Rita Ora - Hot Right Now / Drum n' Bass / 1 week 116. Rudimental feat. John Newman - Feel the Love / Drum n' Bass / 1 week 117. Cheryl - Call My Name / Electro-Dance / 1 week 118. will.i.am feat. Eva Simons - This Is Love / Electro-House / 1 week 119. Florence + The Machine - Spectrum (Say My Name) (Calvin Harris Remix) / Electro-House / 3 weeks 120. Wiley feat. Ms D - Heatwave / Electro-Grime / 2 weeks 121. Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom / Eurodance / 1 week 122. Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child / Progressive House / 1 week 123. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing / Electro-House / 1 week 2013 124. Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) / Electro-House / 1 week 125. Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be the One / Progressive House / 1 week 126. Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E - Need U (100%) / House / 1 week 127. Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night / Drum n' Bass / 1 week 128. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams - Get Lucky / Disco-House / 4 weeks 129. Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La / 2-Step Garage / 1 week 130. Avicii feat. Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up / Folktronica / 3 weeks 131. Storm Queen - Look Right Through (MK Remix) / Deep House / 1 week 132. Martin Garrix - Animals / Electro-House / 1 week 133. Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts - Under Control / Progressive House / 1 week 2014 134. Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be / House / 4 weeks 135. Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love / House / 1 week 136. DVBBS & Borgeous feat. Tinie Tempah - Tsunami (Jump) / Electro-House / 1 week 137. Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got U / House / 1 week 138. Sigma - Nobody To Love / Drum n' Bass / 1 week 139. Kiesza - Hideaway / House / 1 week 140. Mr. Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Remix) / Deep House / 2 weeks 141. Calvin Harris - Summer / Progressive House / 1 week 142. Secondcity - I Wanna Feel / Deep House / 1 week 143. Oliver Heldens x Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) / House / 1 week 144. David Guetta feat. Sam Martin - Lovers On The Sun / Progressive House / 1 week 145. Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz - Prayer In C / Deep House / 2 weeks 146. Calvin Harris feat. John Newman - Blame / Progressive House / 1 week 147. Sigma feat. Paloma Faith - Changing / Drum n' Bass / 1 week 2015 148. Years & Years - King / Synthpop/House / 1 week 149. Jess Glynne - Hold My Hand / Dance-pop / 3 weeks 150. Omi - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) / House / 4 weeks 151. Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me / Deep House / 1 week 152. David Zowie - House Every Weekend / Deep House / 1 week 153. Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself / Dance-pop / 1 week 154. Sigala - Easy Love / House / 1 week 155. KDA feat. Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) / House / 1 week 2016 156. Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) / Tropical House / 4 weeks 157. Major Lazer feat. Justin Bieber & MØ - Cold Water / Dance-pop / 5 weeks 158. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey - Closer / Dance-pop / 4 weeks 159. Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye / Dance-pop / 9 weeks 2017 160. Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson - Symphony / Dance-pop / 1 week 161. Calvin Harris feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean - Feels / Nu-disco/Funk / 1 week 2018 162. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss / Garage House/Dance-pop / 8 weeks 163. Clean Bandit feat. Demi Lovato - Solo / Dance-pop / 1 week 164. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises / House/Dance-pop / 6 weeks 2019 No Dance #1s :nocheer: 2020 165. SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek Remix) / Slap-house / 2 weeks 166. Joel Corry x MNEK - Head & Heart / House / 6 weeks
May 24, 201411 yr Excellent work Thermo! :D 1990 England New Order - World In Motion (House, acid house, electro, alternative dance) 1993 Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own (1993 remix - Dance, house) 1999 Shanks & Bigfoot 'Sweet Like Chocolate' (UK Garage) !!! 2000 Mel C 'I Turn To You' (Dance-pop, Trance) 2000 Madonna 'Music' (discogs: Progressive House, House, Downtempo, Synth-pop) 2004 3 Of A Kind - Babycakes (UK Garage) 2005 Gorillaz - Dare (Hip house, Alternative dance) 2005 Madonna - Hung Up (Dance-pop, Disco) 2006 Madonna - Sorry (Dance-pop, house, disco) 2006 Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Dance-pop, nu-disco) 2007 Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat (discogs: House, Electro; wiki: Electropop, synthpop, Hi-NRG) 2008 Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me (Hip hop, garage house, electro-funk, nu-disco) 2012 will.i.am feat. Eva Simons - This Is Love (Dance-pop, hip house, electro house) 2013 will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout (Dance, dance-pop) Edited May 24, 201411 yr by ►ej
May 24, 201411 yr I was just going to suggest that you had missed Sweet Like Chocolate, I Turn To You and With Every heartbeat, Ethan :lol: Great thread, Dan! Love how dance has made such a comeback since 2011.
May 24, 201411 yr Very interesting, thanks for compiling! Minor error: 1998 41. Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) / Big Beat / 1 week 42. Madonna - Frozen / Electronica 43. Run-D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins - It's Like That / Hip House / 6 weeks If I remember well Frozen was 1 week long number 1.
May 24, 201411 yr Author thanks for the suggestions. I was considering adding some of them when writing the thread but decided they were too dance-pop. Same with Club Can't Handle Me.
May 25, 201411 yr Author some of the more obvious omissions are a tad perplexing though~ :P don't worry I was getting around to adding the omissions :P I've added all your suggestions just now with the exceptions of 'Music', 'I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (too pop) and 'Scream and Shout' (too urban)
May 27, 201411 yr Good list - I'd be tempted to put 1977 - Donna Summer - I Feel Love 1981 - Kraftwerk - The Model / Computer Love in there. They weren't referred to as dance music as I don't suppose anyone knew what it was yet!
March 22, 201510 yr Author Updated ! going to assume for now that Jess Glynne has claimed the 147th dance #1!
March 22, 201510 yr So few this year :( even King is disputable, the OCC clearly don't seem to think its dance as its not on the Top 40 Dance Singles (despite the fact Desire is :wacko: )
March 22, 201510 yr Author yeah I doubt we'll get as many dance #1s this year as the genre seems to have already peaked until its next big comeback (plus the fact we seem to be getting very few #1s anyway so far)
March 22, 201510 yr Cheerleader is a potential one (I'm starting to think it has a good chance now) & maybe they'll count Bloodstream in a couple of weeks?
March 23, 201510 yr Interesting list! :D I'm not really sure I'd consider 'King' house though, maybe more electro-pop/dance?
March 30, 201510 yr Yeah there are always going to be some borderline tracks which some might consider dance and some might not. It's a great list though, and it shows the peaks and troughs of chart dance music throughout the years. Didn't realise 'With Every Heartbeat' was the only dance number 1 of 2007 :o It would actually be quite interesting to see similar lists for others genres e.g. rock/indie, urban/R&B etc.
March 30, 201510 yr Author Didn't realise 'With Every Heartbeat' was the only dance number 1 of 2007 :o That is quite shocking actually, and I don't really consider it to be dance, but the song's genre is debatable and I didn't want 2007 to feel left out :P Thankfully the number of dance #1s has increased ever since (except the slight dip from 2009 to 2010, and I can't see 2015 beating 2014 either)
March 30, 201510 yr Yeah there are always going to be some borderline tracks which some might consider dance and some might not. It's a great list though, and it shows the peaks and troughs of chart dance music throughout the years. Didn't realise 'With Every Heartbeat' was the only dance number 1 of 2007 :o It would actually be quite interesting to see similar lists for others genres e.g. rock/indie, urban/R&B etc.There's a list of R&B #1s in the urban forum: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=166483 It has the same issue of where to draw the line of what does/doesn't fit the genre, but that'd be the case with most, if not all, genres really!
March 30, 201510 yr Pretty horrifying that it's been well over a decade since the last trance #1, shame the genre is so commercially unappealing and gets such little radio support.
March 30, 201510 yr Author Pretty horrifying that it's been well over a decade since the last trance #1, shame the genre is so commercially unappealing and gets such little radio support. yeah it's sad but I've learnt to accept that trance will probably never come back into fashion :( Shame as we got some brilliant trance hits from back in the day, but now we've got amazing house songs to make up for it
March 30, 201510 yr 2007 Beyoncé & Shakira ~ Beautiful Liar (Freemasons Remix) 3 weeks --> surely counts as much as Cornershop and Mr. Probz since >95% of its sales came from the Freemasons version :D TBF Clean Bandit/Jess Glynne (Real Love) and Philip George (Wish You Were Mine), with first week sales of >80k, were somewhat unlucky to miss out on chart toppers - blocked by a front loaded charity record (Band Aid 30) and one of the biggest hits of the decade (Uptown Funk). Dance labels need to figure out how to maximize streaming to coincide with the impact date ~ clearly holding back audio streams until the week of the physical release isn't working, see Sigma, while the likes of 'Cheerleader' and 'Firestone' have shown you can build up demand on streaming services in the weeks/months before release or full commercial push... Getting the balance right could be the key to how many dance No1's we'll see in the next few years~ Massive Trance revival for the early 20's~ you heard it here first ;) :magic:
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