Songs whose highest chart position is in the title of the song

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Can be any major Billboard (or equivalent international) chart. Thought of these to get it started:

• Prince - "7" (reached #7 on the Hot 100 in 1993)
• Garbage - "#1 Crush" (reached #1 on Modern Rock Tracks in 1997)
• Blur - "Song 2" (reached #2 on the UK charts in 1997)

LimbsKing, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link

Searching the figures for "Mambo No. 5" yielded disappointing results.

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link

Tinchy Stryder featuring N-Dubz - Number 1

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 July 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link

Man it's a hot one (#1)

frogbs, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link

Ooh.. here's a random one.. "#9 Dream" by John Lennon peaked at #9 on the Hot 100 in 1975

LimbsKing, Friday, 26 July 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link

Metallica's "One" reached #1 in Finland.

the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link

Man it's a hot one (#1)

― frogbs, Friday, July 26, 2019 3:38 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahahahahahahaha

Hannah GAPDY (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 26 July 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link

One Week by Barenaked Ladies was #1 for exactly 1 week (on the Billboard Hot 100)

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 26 July 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link

off-topic but apparently "Two Can Play That Game" was never a hit in the US?!

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 July 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link

U2 "One"

Οὖτις, Friday, 26 July 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link

off-topic but apparently "Two Can Play That Game" was never a hit in the US?!

― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, July 26, 2019 2:51 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

the version that was a hit in the uk is a remix also

bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link

also it still slaps

bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:19 (four years ago) link

Disappointed The Beatles' "For No One" was never a single - apparently the horn player saw the chart and thought it was an abbreviation of "For Number One".

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 26 July 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link

Seduction, "Two to Make It Right" (#2 on Billboard Hot 100)

Pauline Male (Eric H.), Friday, 26 July 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link

Len Barry, "1-2-3" reached #1 on Cashbox, #2 on Billboard, #3 on Record Retailer (UK) in 1965

Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link

Chicago, "25 or 6 to 4" - #6 Cashbox, #4 Billboard

Josefa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:54 (four years ago) link

Lots of songs called Nowhere didn't chart.

StanM, Saturday, 27 July 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link

"5-4-3-2-1" by Manfred Mann peaked at #5 in the UK.

Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link

Music Sounds Better With Youhas a video in which the song reaches number 1, this only happened in Greece and Spain.

Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link

DJ Snake’s Turn Down 4 What reached #4 in the US Billboard Hot 100.

Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link

“You’re The One That I Want” went to #1 in the US and the UK.

Siegbran, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link

"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen - #1 in US, Canada, and Netherlands.

visiting, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link

Feist "1234" peaked at either number 2 or 3 in Canada (Wikipedia is contradictory and Billboard website is wonky rn), #4 on the US Hot Digital Songs chart, and #34 on the US Modern Rock Charts lol

J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link

"I Got 5 On It" hit #5. (In Belgium.)

Simon H., Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link

Big Maybelle's cover of "96 Tears" hit US #96 in 1967.

J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link

Love how this thread has us all just googling songs with numbers in the title

J. Sam, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link

surely everyone just knows these things?

geoffreyess, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link

A counterexample: "867-5309/Jenny" reached #4 in the US and #2 in Canada, two of only three digits not mentioned in the title.

geoffreyess, Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link

kraftwerk - "numbers" achieved a whole number value on one or more radio charts

cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:57 (four years ago) link

assuming the theoretical extensibility of the radio chart model without explicit measurement

cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link

not only does the title of the song contain its highest chart position, it will always contain its highest chart position for any chart assuming a positive functional relationship between chart and play count.

cheese canopy (map), Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link

"Baby One More Time"

"I'm a Slave 4 U" peaked at #4 in the UK.

visiting, Saturday, 27 July 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link

"777-9311" reached number two on the R&B charts and number 88 on the pop charts.

It has a "77" and a "11" in it, and those are two numbers, and if you add them together you get an 88, so I think this should count.

del griffith, Saturday, 27 July 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link

"Seven Nation Army" peaked at #7 in the UK

jaymc, Sunday, 28 July 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link

It's not a single, but Mansun's Six neatly reached that position in the UK album chart.

kitchen person, Sunday, 28 July 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link

Car 67 by Driver 67 got to number 7

(its pronounced six seven in the song)

Mark G, Sunday, 28 July 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link

stayin' alive by the bee gees reached #4 in the uk.

The Pingularity (ledge), Sunday, 28 July 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link

^ if only they'd done one long AAAAAAH instead of ah ah ah ah

StanM, Monday, 29 July 2019 07:53 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Three_(song)

“In Canada it coincidentally finished at number 33 on the RPM Alternative 30 year-end chart for 1997.”

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Saturday, 5 September 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link

Spice Girls, “2 Become 1”: #1 in several countries (including the UK), #2 in several others.

(Sadly, when Faithless tried to pull the same trick a couple of years later with “We Come 1” they didn’t get higher than #2 or 3)

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link

and, inspired in part by del griffith:

”Number 9” by T-ara reached #5 in South Korea’s Gaon chart and #4 in its Hot 100, adding up to a combined peak of... number 9.

No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link


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