September 6, 2014
- STAYED AT #1:4 Weeks
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.
Thanks to the magic of social media, my immediate reaction is preserved for all of eternity: "Every generation gets the 'Hollaback Girl' it deserves." I'm not sure which generation I was talking about when I wrote that, nor do I quite know what "deserves" means in this context. Twitter one-liners rarely have room for precision, and you usually don't have to go back a whole decade and think about what you might've meant. Still, I'm pretty sure I was right.
my 3-year-old daughter is demanding to listen to “me hi” (“antihero”) and “pig song” (“shake it off,” it’s from a movie) on an infinite loop and i’d love to introduce a third taylor swift song to her repertoire
— rob harvilla (@harvilla) April 10, 2024
THE NUMBER TWOS: Nicki Minaj's shamelessly, gleefully nasty "Baby Got Back" bite "Anaconda" -- another song that, weirdly enough, had a memorable moment in the movie Sing -- peaked at #2 behind "Shake It Off." It's an 8.
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♬ original sound - That's Josh
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal The History Of Pop Music is out now on paperback via Hachette Books. Hey hey hey! Just think, while you've been getting down and out about all the liars and the dirty dirty cheats in the world, you could've been getting down to this! Sick! Book!
