Just as it says on the tin! What single was number one in the music charts when you were born?
Mine was Bros - "I Owe You Nothing". Yeah.



NB- this thread is half InKy's fault too. Only I HAVE THE INTERNETS *Cackles*

Ahem.

I remember a thread like this!

US charts - The Look - Roxette
UK charts - Like A Prayer - Madonna

I am displeased.

Maria McKee - "Show Me Heaven"

Don't know it. Vamos, Youtube!

Haha, it's awful. The top album for my birthday was Pavarotti, though!

The Sign - Ace of Base

Never heard of it.

Also Die Prinzen - Alles nur gekault

Haven't heard of it either.

I envy you. For having not heard it, that is.

Mine, as I discussed with Daria on the yesterday, was 'Sunday Girl' by Blondie, which happens to be my favourite Blondie song. I picked it up on 12" at a record market on Thurday. Time off well spent, says I.

Mine was Vogue - Madonna Which fails to excite any emotion in me at all. Woo.

You are all making me feel really old. Except for InKy.

Depending on how you judge things, in the UK I've got one of these two:

29:01:77. Julie Covington. Don't Cry For Me Argentina.
05:02:77. David Soul. Don't Give Up On Us.

I think I vaguely know the David Soul one, but I'm not sure.

In the US it was these two underwhelming songs:

January 29 "Car Wash" Rose Royce
February 5 "Torn Between Two Lovers" Mary MacGregor

My birth songs suck!

Except for 'Car Wash', Mata, which is plainly brilliant.

according to this:

1987 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was The Pet Shop Boys - "It's A Sin"
1988 On your 1st birthday Glenn Medeiros - "Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You"
1989 On your 2nd birthday Soul II Soul featuring Caron Wheeler - "Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me)"
1990 On your 3rd birthday Elton John - "Sacrifice / Healing Hands"
1991 On your 4th birthday Jason Donovan - "Any Dream Will Do"
1992 On your 5th birthday Erasure - "Abba-Esque (EP)"
1993 On your 6th birthday Gabrielle - "Dreams"
1994 On your 7th birthday Wet Wet Wet - "Love Is All Around"
1995 On your 8th birthday The Outhere Brothers - "Boom Boom Boom"
1996 On your 9th birthday Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - "Three Lions"
1997 On your 10th birthday Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - "I'll Be Missing You"
1998 On your 11th birthday Billie - "Because We Want To"
1999 On your 12th birthday A.T.B. - "9pm (Till I Come)"
2000 On your 13th birthday Eminem - "The Real Slim Shady"
2001 On your 14th birthday Hear'Say - "The Way To Your Love"
2002 On your 15th birthday Elvis vs JXL - "A Little Less Conversation"
2003 On your 16th birthday Beyonce - "Crazy In Love"
2004 On your 17th birthday Usher - "Burn"
2005 On your 18th birthday 2Pac featuring Elton John - "Ghetto Gospel"
2006 On your 19th birthday Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - "Hips Don't Lie"
2007 On your 20th birthday Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - "Umbrella"
2008 On your 21st birthday Ne-Yo - "Closer"

I'm pretty sure they're all awful D:

Alright...going backwards for July 3rd:
2008 ... "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry
2007 ... "Umbrella" by Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
2006 ... "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland
2005 ... "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey
2004 ... "Burn" by Usher
2003 ... "This Is the Night" by Clay Aiken
2002 ... "Hot in Herre" by Nelly
2001 ... "U Remind Me" by Usher
2000 ... "Be with You" by Enrique Iglesias
1999 ... "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez
1998 ... "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy & Monica
1997 ... "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy & Faith Evans featuring 112
1996 ... "Tha Crossroads" by Bone thugs-n-harmony
1995 ... "Waterfalls" by TLC oh dear god I remember this song.
1994 ... "I Swear" by All-4-One
1993 ... "That's the Way Love Goes" by Janet Jackson
1992 ... "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot Mr. Mix-a-lot was lying, my friends. Despite being a baby at the time....I still have no "back"

Jeeesus. I can't believe that TLC's Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls came out in 1995 o_0

That was over 10 years ago.

I feel old

Foreigner - "I Want To Know What Love Is"

You don't know old until you've met someone who was born to the sound of Ace Of Base. Christ, I was at high school when that came out.

Heh, so that made me check how old Inky was. The profiles are so awesome I didn't even have to do math!

You guys are making me feel like I'll be old one day. I'm just imagining this topic in 20 or so years, "Jesus, you were born when that Katy Perry song came out? I was a teenager!"

"The first time ever I saw your face" by Roberta Flack.
I oddly heard that often when I was a teenager. The shop was clerking in played a light fm station.

I'm pretty sure (see: I hope, and may have heard this on the radio) that it was this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

BY THE WAY,
ace of base is awesome. the sign was my first favorite song - i think i was about six or seven. ..and the rest of you are olllllld.

I'm not sure why, but I found that unbearably cute. Awwwww, ickle syuu, bopping around to AoB. Too sweet.

Sadly syuu, that wasn't a number one until the 29th of August '87 in the UK and 12th of March '88 in the US.

I feel really bad for finding that out now. I'm so sorry.

Let her dream, Moose...

1993 What Is Love - Haddaway I have no clue who Haddaway is...nor have I ever heard of What is love...

April 10th, 1982: I Love Rock 'n Roll by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.

I'm curious, Mata, why did you look up both the 29th of January and the 5th of February? Did you come out on the 29th, see your shadow, and then go back in? Are you secretly a groundhog?!

1976 ... "Disco Lady" by Johnnie Taylor

Don't know it. Somewhere else I'm sure said it was Mull of Kintyre! Another web site says

On 15th Apr 1976 ...

The Number 1 single was:
Brotherhood Of Man - "Save Your Kisses For Me"
For Number 1 single over the subsequent years Click Here

The Number 1 album was:
TV Soundtrack - "Rock Follies"
For Number 1 album over the subsequent years Click Here

Does anyone have a legitimate site to look at??

God I feel old

Yes.

Also, I figure that, being born on the 4th, that means that the actual number 1 will have changed by then, even though it wouldn't be officially announced until the next day. The number 1 on the 5th is probably a more accurate reflection of what people were listening to when I was born.

I think too much.

@Pixie: Rock Follies? Nice

Blimey - I remember pretty much all of those choons you were born to. I was probably listening to them at the time you were emerging as well.

Mine? Well, on the day I graced the planet Earth with my newborn presence, Freda Payne was spending her fifth week at number 1 with "Band Of Gold", a song which has been covered a few times since. I bet most people here have never even heard of Freda Payne.

Beethoven's 9th Symphony in my case.