Posted March 9, 20223 yr 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 Edited June 17, 20223 yr by chartjack2
March 9, 20223 yr 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!
March 9, 20223 yr 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. Edited March 9, 20223 yr by jimwatts
March 9, 20223 yr 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
March 9, 20223 yr 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 Edited March 9, 20223 yr by fiesta
March 9, 20223 yr Isn't Daniel Bedingfield's 'Gotta Get Thru This' also famously self-penned and produced?
March 9, 20223 yr 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!
March 9, 20223 yr 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.
March 9, 20223 yr 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.
March 9, 20223 yr I know one, Daniel Bedingfield with If You're Not The One Wrong - he wrote it but didn't produce it.
March 9, 20223 yr 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...
March 9, 20223 yr 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
March 9, 20223 yr 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.
March 9, 20223 yr 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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