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

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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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