Posted February 14, 20232 yr 1953 Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes - Perry Como / The Ramblers 1954 Oh Mein Papa - Eddie Calvert 1955 Mambo Italiano - Rosemary Clooney / The Mellowmen 1956 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford 1957 The Garden of Eden - Frankie Vaughan 1958 The Story of My Life - Michael Holliday 1959 One Night / I Got Stung - Elvis Presley 1960 Why - Anthony Newley 1961 Are You Lonesome Tonight - Elvis Presley 1962 The Young Ones - Cliff Richard 1963 Diamonds - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 1964 Needles and Pins - The Searchers 1965 You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ - Righteous Brothers 1966 Michelle - The Overlanders 1967 I’m a Believer - The Monkees 1968 The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann 1969 (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice - Amen Corner 1970 Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse 1971 My Sweet Lord - George Harrison 1972 Son of My Father - Chicory Tip 1973 Blockbuster - The Sweet 1974 Tiger Feet - Mud 1975 January - Pilot 1976 Forever and Ever - Slik 1977 When I Need You - Leo Sayer 1978 Take a Chance On Me - ABBA 1979 Heart of Glass - Blondie 1980 Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers 1981 Woman - John Lennon 1982 Town Called Malice / Precious - The Jam 1983 Too Shy - Kajagoogoo 1984 Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1985 I Know Him So Well - Elaine Paige / Barbara Dickson 1986 When the Going Gets Tough - Billy Ocean 1987 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) - George Michael / Aretha Franklin 1988 I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue 1989 Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart - Marc Almond / Gene Pitney 1990 Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor 1991 Do the Bartman - The Simpsons 1992 Goodnight Girl - Wet Wet Wet 1993 No Limit - 2 Unlimited 1994 Without You - Mariah Carey 1995 Think Twice - Celine Dion 1996 Spaceman - Babylon Zoo 1997 Discotheque - U2 1998 Doctor Jones - Aqua 1999 Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz 2000 Go Let It Out - Oasis 2001 Whole Again - Atomic Ktten 2002 Hero - Enrique Iglesias 2003 All the Things She Said - Tatu 2004 Take Me to the Clouds Above - LMC / U2 2005 Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own - U2 2006 Thunder in My Heart - Medk / Leo Sayer 2007 Grace Kelly - Mika 2008 Now You’re Gone - Basshunter / DJ Mental Theo 2009 The Fear - Lily Allen 2010 Everybody Hurts - Helping Haiti 2011 Price Tag - Jessie J / BoB 2012 Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye / Kimbra 2013 Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis / Wanz 2014 Rather Be - Clean Bandit / Jess Glynne 2015 Love Me Like You Do - Ellie Goulding 2016 Seven Years - Lukas Graham 2017 Shape of You - Ed Sheeran 2018 God’s Plan - Drake 2019 Seven Rings - Ariana Grande 2020 Blinding Lights - The Weeknd 2021 Driver’s Licence - Olivia Rodrigo 2022 We Don’t Talk About Bruno - Encanto Cast 2023 Flowers - Miley Cyrus
February 14, 20232 yr Thanks for this! As valentines as is my birthday it’s interesting to see my birthday number ones. Think Twice being my actual day of birth number one :wub:
February 14, 20232 yr Author Trivia - “Love” mentioned in song titles 3 times - 1965, 1970, 2015. “Heart” also mentioned three times 1979, 1989, 2006. Potential Valentine’s Day gifts mentioned - “Diamonds”, 1963, “Glass”, 1979, “Rings”, 2019, and “Flowers”, 2023 - just remember to remove the “Price Tag” 2011. The following artists have multiple Valentine’s Day #1s - U2 (1997, 2004, 2005), Elvis Presley (1959, 1961) and Leo Sayer (1977, 2006)
February 14, 20232 yr My ultimate favourites: 1956 Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford 1963 Diamonds - Jet Harris & Tony Meehan 1967 I’m a Believer - The Monkees 1970 Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse 1971 My Sweet Lord - George Harrison 1979 Heart of Glass - Blondie 1982 Town Called Malice / Precious - The Jam 1984 Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood 1996 Spaceman - Babylon Zoo 2007 Grace Kelly - Mika 2009 The Fear - Lily Allen 2012 Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye / Kimbra 2014 Rather Be - Clean Bandit / Jess Glynne 2020 Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
February 14, 20232 yr Love that Sixteen Tons is there - a song about coal mining and selling your soul to your job that couldn’t be less romantic. :heart:
February 14, 20232 yr ^ That’s because most songs are love songs :lol: Yes but a lot of Christmas number 1s arnt actually Christmas songs :lol:
February 15, 20232 yr Yes but a lot of Christmas number 1s arnt actually Christmas songs :lol: I'm sure a lot of Christmas #1's are also love songs. People just sing about love all the time!
February 15, 20232 yr In my opinion this is just as good, if not better than the Christmas #1’s list.
February 15, 20232 yr The following artists have multiple Valentine’s Day #1s - U2 (1997, 2004, 2005), Elvis Presley (1959, 1961) and Leo Sayer (1977, 2006)U2 - specialists in... releasing songs in early February
February 15, 20232 yr And here are the Valentine's Day No 1 Albums 1959 South Pacific * Soundtrack 1960 South Pacific * Soundtrack 1961 G.I. blues * Elvis Presley 1962 Blue Hawaii * Elvis Presley 1963 Summer holiday * Cliff Richard and the Shadows 1964 With the Beatles * Beatles 1965 Rolling Stones Volume 2 * Rolling Stones 1966 Sound of Music * Soundtrack 1967 Monkees * Monkees 1968 Diana Ross and the Supremes greatest hits * Supremes 1969 Diana Ross and the Supremes join the Temptations * Suprenes and the Temptations 1970 Bridge over troubled water * Simon and Garfunkel 1971 All things must pass * George Harrison 1972 Neil Reid * Neil Reid 1973 Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player * Elton John 1974 Singles 1969-1973 * Carpenters 1975 His greatest hits * Engelbert Humperdinck 1976 Very best of Slim Whitman * Slim Whitman 1977 20 golden greats * Shadows 1978 Album * Abba 1979 Parallel lines * Blondie 1980 Last dance * Various Artists 1981 Face value * Phil Collins 1982 Love songs * Barbra Streisand 1983 Business as usual * Men at Work 1984 Into the gap * Thompson Twins 1985 Meat is murder * Smiths 1986 Brothers in arms * Dire Straits 1987 Phantom of the Opera * Soundtrack 1988 Introducing the hardline according to… * Terence Trent d'Arby 1989 New flame * Simply Red 1990 …But seriously * Phil Collins 1991 Innuendo * Queen 1992 Stars * Simply Red 1993 Walthamstow * East 17 1994 Music box * Mariah Carey 1995 Colour of my love * Céline Dion 1996 Expecting to fly * Bluetones 1997 Blur * Blur 1998 Urban hymns * Verve 1999 Talk on corners * Corrs 2000 Rise * Gabrielle 2001 No angel * Dido 2002 Escape * Enrique Iglesias 2003 100th window * Massive Attack 2004 Feels like home * Norah Jones 2005 Scissor Sisters * Scissor Sisters 2006 Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not * Arctic Monkeys 2007 Life in cartoon motion * Mika 2008 Sleep through the static * Jack Johnson 2009 It's not me, it's you * Lily Allen 2010 Glee - the music season one - Vol 1 * Glee Cast 2011 21 * Adele 2012 Our version of events * Emeli Sandé 2013 Les Misérables * Soundtrack 2014 Little red * Katy B 2015 In the lonely hour * Sam Smith 2016 25 * Adele 2017 Human * Rag'n'Bone Man 2018 Greatest Showman * Soundtrack 2019 Thank u, next * Ariana Grande 2020 Changes * Justin Bieber 2021 Tyron * Slowtai 2022 FTHC * Frank Turner 2023 This is why * Paramore Elvis Presley, Simply Red, Phil Collins and Adele have two titles each. Elvis Presley, George Harrison, Abba, Blondie, Mariah Carey, Céline Dion, Enrique Iglesias, Mika, Lily Allen, Adele and Ariana Grande had both the No 1 Single and the No 1 Album on Valentine's Day. Six soundtracks (five different) and one Compilation title are featured. The 1985 Album title is unfortunate for the Day... Edited February 15, 20232 yr by Tuttavilla
February 15, 20232 yr Splitting hairs a bit over something so insignificant but with you including Paramore in that list instead of Shania I'm assuming several of the others on the list are the wrong week as well... (if we define a Valentine's Day #1 the same way Christmas #1s are defined)
February 15, 20232 yr Splitting hairs a bit over something so insignificant but with you including Paramore in that list instead of Shania I'm assuming several of the others on the list are the wrong week as well... (if we define a Valentine's Day #1 the same way Christmas #1s are defined) I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's the same user that tried to redefine when the Christmas #1 is back in December lol.
February 15, 20232 yr I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's the same user that tried to redefine when the Christmas #1 is back in December lol. You are correct: I use the date when the public actually bought the music, not the OC / BBC "week-ending" definition. Paramore's sales lead pretty much guarantees Friday's No 1 album for purchases made during the week which has included Valentine's Day - same for Easter, Christmas or anyone's birthday for that matter. (I've used the same system since 1968...). Edited February 15, 20232 yr by Tuttavilla
February 15, 20232 yr But that's not how Christmas #1s actually work. The point is that it's the song that is the current #1 on Christmas Day.
February 15, 20232 yr Tuttavilla’s definition is quite tempting on the basis that it erases Ladbaby from the history books :lol:
February 15, 20232 yr It's also tempting for me to be able to claim a win on my bet for Justin Bieber to be Christmas #1 in 2015 but alas the bookmakers don't accept unsubstantiated redefinitions :teresa:
February 15, 20232 yr Not the OCC and their predecessors concocting an entire system of charting weeks decades ago explicitly designed to favour their industry plants. Hence the Shan-ia not only denying Raye a #1 album but being officially proclaimed the coveted Valentine’s Day #1 album, when rightfully it should be Parmore. Outraged tbh.
February 15, 20232 yr Author Well in that case, my list is a load of b*ll*cks as I just went off the OCC website
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