February 9, 20232 yr Author "S" calling: Another one that got away - Girls Aloud's cover on 31st December 2005 of Dee C Lee's 1985 See the Day. 1,003 / 824. Edited February 9, 20232 yr by Tuttavilla
February 9, 20232 yr 7% of top 20 hits are covers. Would be interesting to have them split by decade, find out which decade has the highest rate for covers. My money would be on the 60s.
February 9, 20232 yr Author 7% of top 20 hits are covers. Would be interesting to have them split by decade, find out which decade has the highest rate for covers. My money would be on the 60s. Don't gamble my friend (!) : 1950's: 137 - an average of 15 per annum / 833 Top 20 hits - 16% Covers 1960's: 68 - 7 per annum / 1,450 hits - 5% Covers 1970's: 113 - 11 per annum / 1,769 hits - 6% Covers 1980's: 119 - 12 per annum / 2,187 hits - 5% Covers 1990's: 274 - 27 per annum / 3,006 hits - 9% Covers 2000's: 214 - 21 per annum / 2,883 hits - 7% Covers 2010's: 70 - 7 per annum / 1,634 hits - 4% Covers 2020's: 18 - 6 per annum / 400 hits (to end of 2022) - 5% Covers TOTAL: 1,014 - 14 per annum - 14,161 hits (to end of 2022) - 7% Covers The 1950's were skewed by a plethora of USA songs being covered by UK artists with both / multiple versions reaching the charts. This leaves the 1990's as the decade of the most covers by numbers and percentage. Thank you for your interest, it makes it worthwhile... Edited February 20, 20232 yr by Tuttavilla
February 10, 20232 yr Author And another: Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, a Top 20 hit twice in 1990 and 2004 was covered by the German Mike Koglin as Silence for one week at No 20 in November 1998. 825 / 1,004.
February 10, 20232 yr Author Vanessa Carlton covered Slipknott's Paint It Black in 2000. I cannot find the Slipknot version. Their only Top 20 hit Duality was in 2004. Vanessa Carlton's version is a cover of the Rolling Stones 1966 classic hit - the only version to reach the Top 20 - but she never released it as a single. (Loved her A Thousand Miles). Edited February 10, 20232 yr by Tuttavilla
February 12, 20232 yr Author In 2002, Mis-Teeq had a No 7 hit with the double-A side Roll On / This Is How We Do it. The latter title was a cover of the Montell Jordan Top 20 entry in 1995. In 2015, Joe Stone also covered the song as Party (This Is How We Do It) which I knew but I missed the Mis-Teeq earlier cover because of the second title of the double-A side - excuses... So another cover of a song already acknowledged as a cover by someone else, bringing the totals to 825 / 1,005.
February 12, 20232 yr I cannot find the Slipknot version. Their only Top 20 hit Duality was in 2004. Vanessa Carlton's version is a cover of the Rolling Stones 1966 classic hit - the only version to reach the Top 20 - but she never released it as a single. (Loved her A Thousand Miles). ‘Paint It Black’ is by The Rolling Stones, not Slipknot! :lol:
February 15, 20232 yr Author Another Double-A side missed... Nina Simone's 1968 Ain't Got No...I Got Life / Do What You Gotta Do: the second title was covered by the Four Tops a year later entering the charts on 11th October 1969. The song was written by Jimmy Webb and was recorded by at least 2 non-charting acts before Nina Simone's success. 826 / 1,006.
February 15, 20232 yr Author Chuck Berry had a Double-A side hit in 1963 with Let It Rock / Memphis Tennessee. In 1971, the Rolling Stones issued the Triple-A side Brown Sugar / Bitch / Let It Rock, entering the Top 20 on 1st May. Their version of Let It Rock was a live version. 827 / 1,007.
February 15, 20232 yr Author Glenn Miller's In The Mood, recorded in 1939, is the world's best-selling swing instrumental track. The original under a different name dates back to 1930. In 1960, the Ernie Fields Orchestra, under the name of B Bumble and the Stingers, entered their version of In The Mood into the UK Top 20 Singles chart. Sixteen years later, the classic Glenn Miller rendition charted as the Triple-A side Moonlight Serenade / Little Brown Jug / In The Mood on 7th February 1976, effectively covering his own original song. 828 / 1,008.
February 17, 20232 yr Author In 1968, Otis Redding and Carla Thomas enjoyed 1 week in the Top 20 with Tramp; the song was a cover of the original by Lowell Fulson issued the previous year. In 1988, Salt-n-Pepa had a Double-A side hit with Push It and Tramp, the latter heavily sampling Otis and Carla's rendition; the titles spent 3 weeks at No 2. Another Double-A side I missed, there are probably one or two more to come... 829 / 1009.
February 19, 20232 yr Author Stop was a 1989 No 17 hit for Sam Brown. In 2004, Jamelia had a Double-A side No 9 hit with DJ / Stop - with 6 letters, surely the shortest titled of all 313 Double-A side hits between 1954 and 2010? Stop was a cover of the Sam Brown song. 830 / 1,010.
February 19, 20232 yr Author The Jacksons' Can You Feel It? from 1981 was covered and taken to ultimate glory by Tamperer in 1998 with a week at No 1; in 2004, the boy band V had a No 5 Double-A side hit with Hip to Hip / Can You Feel it? So, not a new Cover but an extra one: 830 / 1,011.
February 19, 20232 yr Author Pharrell Williams' Frontin' from 2003 was covered a year later by Jamie Cullum's Double-A side These Are the Days / Frontin'. 831 / 1,012.
February 19, 20232 yr Author The Faces 1972 hit Stay With Me was covered by McFly's double-A side in 2008 as Do Ya / Stay With Me. 832 / 1,013. Incidentally, the most used title of Top 20 songs since 1952 is "Stay" with 14 different instances and 12 different songs.
February 20, 20232 yr Author Cameo had a hit in 1986 with Word Up!. This was covered by Gun in 1994 and Mel B in 1996, both known at the time by this scribbler. But I missed Little Mix's version in 2014, which now makes a total of 1,014 covers from 832 different songs out of 14,179 Top 20 entries to date.
February 20, 20232 yr Author This may still not be definitive but I have finished checking all the Top 20 Singles and I cannot find any other Covers.
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