You summoned this today :lol:

 

*_*

 

That list of Bonnie McKee #1s is really not great, 'Roar' is the only one I particularly care for (and I don't like 'American Girl' at all either oop). Likewise a pretty rough collection of songs from Kamille aside from 'What About Us'.

 

And today I learned that Jason Derulo had writing credits on 'Replay' although now I know it suddenly feels quite obvious :lol: 'like my iPod's stuck on replay' definitely sounds like the kind of thing Jason Derulo would write.

No 75- Tony Macauley (6)- 17 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Baby Now That I’ve Found You (1967)

• Let The Heartaches Again (1967)

• Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) (1970)

• You Won’t Find Another Fool Like Me (1974)

• Don’t Give Up On Us (1977)

• Silver Lady (1977)

 

This guy has won an incredible 9 Ivor Novello awards before turning his attention to musical theatre and eventually writing thriller novels in later life! Well anyone that can turn David Soul into a chart topping artist must have skill- mind you the success of “Starsky and Hutch” was probably the main factor.

 

No 74- Matt Rowe (6)- 17 weeks

 

 

Chart topper:

 

• Wannabe (1996)

• 2 Become 1 (1996)

• Mama (1996)

• Spice Up Your Life (1997)

• Viva Forever (1998)

• Goodbye (1998)

 

Clearly here with team Spice, Rowe normally worked with Richard Stannard and helped to steer the 90s phenomenon to No 1 on six occasions. The internet is rather quiet about him so presumably he lets the songs do the talking.

 

No 72- Richard Rogers (6)- 19 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Blue Moon (1961)

• Climb Ev’ry Mountain (1961)

• You’ll Never Walk Alone (1963)

• Happy Talk (1982)

• The Club Is Alive (2010)

• 7 Rings (2019)

 

Covers:

• You’ll Never Walk Alone (1985 & 1996 & 2020)

 

One half of the songwriting duo Rogers & Hammerstein, famed for their musicals “Carousel” “The King & I”, “South Pacific” and “Sound Of Music” among others. He became the first person to become an EGOT (a winner of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) and then won a Pulitizer prize on top of that (one of only two people to have done that ever!). At any rate his work has been sampled and cover as you can see by diverse acts like JLS and Ariana Grande.

 

Oh wow all of those samples/covers :lol: my mind was blown to discover that 'Happy Talk' by Captain Sensible was originally from South Pacific, it couldn't be a more differently presented version, from vocal style to production. If only Big Brovaz had charted one place higher to make it another :P

 

Looks like Matt Rowe was involved with my two favourite Spice Girls songs - 'Spice Up Your Life' and 'Viva Forever' *.*

 

'Blue Moon', 'Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone' are all retro highlights for me <3

No 73- Richard Rogers (6)- 18 weeks

Covers:

• You’ll Never Walk Alone (1985 & 1996)

and 2020 :D

 

Re: Favourite Things, isn't the ruling that if the song has already been #1 in a different version / interpolation, it doesn't count again, so that and '7 rings' wouldn't both count, even if the former had reached #1?

and 2020 :D

 

Re: Favourite Things, isn't the ruling that if the song has already been #1 in a different version / interpolation, it doesn't count again, so that and '7 rings' wouldn't both count, even if the former had reached #1?

Quite right- I forgot about the 2020 version- that moves him up 1 place!

 

"The Club Is Alive" samples "Sound Of Music" whilst "7 Rings" samples "My Favourite Things" and neither made No 1 before so why wouldn't they both count?

^ Yes, I was referring to the Big Brovaz song Jade mentioned which reached #2 - suppose if it had reached #1, its extra week(s) would have counted but not as a a separate hit.

^ Yes, I was referring to the Big Brovaz song Jade mentioned which reached #2 - suppose if it had reached #1, its extra week(s) would have counted but not as a a separate hit.

Ah got you! :D

So I guess that means Hammerstein has writing credits on at least one #1 without Rodgers? Who knew ~

 

'You'll Never Walk Alone' on the same list as 'The Club Is Alive' :lol:

Love most of those songs in original or cover versions. Tomy macaulay has quite thr back catalogue of songs and those rogers musicals are all classics :wub:

I didn't realise Climb Ev’ry Mountain made number 1!

No 73- Hal David (6)- 18 weeks

 

 

Chart Toppers:

 

• Story Of My Life (1958)

• Magic Moments (1958)

• Anyone Who Had A Heart (1964)

• Always Something There (To Remind Me) (1964)

• Make It Easy On Yourself (1965)

• I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (1969)

 

One half of the famed Bacharach/David songwriting partnership, it’s perhaps a surprise to see him so low down this list but he can lay claim to be the first writer to depose himself at No 1 in the UK charts. That was back in 1958 with his first two chart toppers. The list of non No 1 classics he’d had a hand in is bewildering including “Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head” “Walk On By”, “I Say A Little Prayer” and “Close To You”. Amazing

 

No 70- Noddy Holder & Jim Lea (6)- 20 weeks

 

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Chart toppers:

 

• Cuz I Love You (1971)

• Take Me Bac ‘Ome (1972)

• Mama Weer All Crazee Now (1972)

• Cum On Feel The Noize (1973)

• Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me (1973)

• Merry Xmas Everybody (1973)

 

Easy to forget that Slade were a skinhead band before they started to have hits, it was the flip to Glam Rock in the early 70s that propelled the band to the top and start a run of 6 chart toppers in just three years making them the most successful band in the UK singles chart of the early 70s. Those hits were all penned by this pair.

 

No 69- Jack Patterson (6)- 24 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Rather Be (2014)

• Hold My Hand (2015)

• Rockabye (2016)

• Symphony (2017)

• Solo (2018)

• Senorita (2019)

 

The principle song writer and multi-instrumentalist with Clean Bandit, he’s co-written all the groups chart toppers as well as helping out Jess Glynne and Shawn Mendes. Writing a chart topper each year for 2014-19 is impressive, I wonder if we can break that chain as we go higher on the list?

 

I'm guessing the original songwriters would not want to take credit for a couple of lines of rap in almost every case! And of course no-one is forcing the artist to take the rap, so to speak. Well, the music label, maybe, might.... :D

 

Thinking of poor Jazzi P who didn’t get a credit for her excellent work on Kylie’s Shocked.

No 68- Freddie Mercury (6)- 27 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• Bohemian Rhapsody (1975/1991)

• Under Pressure (1981)

• Innuendo (1991)

• Somebody To Love (1993)

• Living On My Own (1993)

• Don’t Stop Me Now (2006)

 

Sampled in:

• Ice Ice Baby (1990)

 

Mercury doubled his No 1 count as a writer post his death in 1991. A combination of re-issues, remixes, and covers all did the trick, perhaps rectifying the criminal lack of Queen chart toppers during the 70s and 80s.

 

No 67- James Bourne (7)- 8 weeks

 

 

Chart toppers:

 

• You Said No (2003)

• Crashed The Wedding (2003)

• Who’s David? (2004)

• 5 Colours In Her Hair (2004)

• Obviously (2004)

• 3AM (2004)

• Thunderbirds Are Go (2004)

 

Founding member of Busted who also wrote most of their hits. The close ties with McFly at the onset of the latter’s career also helped to boost his profile and saw him write 5 chart toppers in 2004. His post Busted career included Son Of Dork and Future Boy but neither saw a return to the No 1 spot though he missed out by one place when he co-wrote The Saturdays “Forever Is Over”.

 

No 63-Bono, Larry Mullen Jnr, The Edge, and Adam Clayton (U2) (7)- 8 Weeks

 

 

Chart Toppers:

 

• Desire (1988)

• The Fly (1991)

• Discotheque (1997)

• Beautiful Day (2000)

• Take Me To The Clouds Above (2004)

• Vertigo (2004)

• Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own (2005)

 

One of the most successful bands of all time- and it helps their coffers that they also wrote all the tracks themselves ensuring they make it on this list too. For a band relatively connected to the 80s as their “heyday” they only scored one chart topper in the decade and were actually more frequently at No 1 in the 00s.

 

Interesting that U2 got most of their chart toppers in the 2000s - or half of them at least, if you don't count 'Take Me To The Clouds Above'!

 

Nice stat there for Jack Patterson though I'm sure we'll beat that as we go higher.

Edited November 30, 20222 yr by Mangø