However, this past summer, the record was broken.
Old Town Road, a rap/country hybrid by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus, broke the record jointly held by Boys II Men/Carey and Fonsi/Yankee/Beiber.
My first question.... Billy Ray Cyrus? Really?
Forget about setting records, if someone at the beginning of 2019 came up to me and said, "Billy Ray Cyrus will have a number 1 hit this year and Miley Cyrus won't, I'd have had your head examined. I mean, after Donald Trump was elected President, I figured there was nothing left to blow my mind. Well, this did it folks.
I've never head of Lil Nas X and to be honest, I've only heard the song a few times, mainly because I really listen to terrestrial radio anymore. Is this due to a dearth of decent music? Of course answering that in the affirmative will make me sound like the old fart that I am. But what the hell.
19 Weeks
LIl Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road
16 Weeks
Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men-One Sweet Day 1995-96
Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You 1992-93
Boyz II Men-I'll Make Love to You 1994
Los del Rio- Macarena 1996
Elton John- Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England's Rose) 1997
Mariah Carey-We Belong Together 2005
The Black Eyed Peas-I Gotta Feeling 2009
Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars-Uptown Funk 2015
Boyz II Men-End of the Road 1992
Brandy and Monica-The Boy is Mine 1998
Santana featuring Rob Thomas-Smooth 1999-2000
Eminem- Lose Yourself 2002-03
Usher featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris-Yeah! 2004
The Black Eyed Peas-Boom Boom Pow 2009
Robin Thicke featuring TI and Pharrell- Blurred Lines 2013
Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth- See You Again 2015
The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey-Closer 2016
Ed Sheeran-Shape of you 2017
Elvis Presley-Don't Be Cruel 1956
All 4 One-I Swear 1994
Toni Braxton- Unbreak My Heart 1996-97
Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112-I'll Be Missing You 1997
Destiny's Child-Independent Women Part I 2000-01
The McGuire Sisters-Sincerely 1955
Perez Prado Cherry pink and Apple Blossom White 1955
Debby Boone-You Light Up My Life 1977
Olivia Newton John-Physical 1981-82
Santana featuring The Product G&B- Maria Maria 2000
Ashanti-Foolish 2002
Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland-Dilemma 2002
Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx-Gold Digger 2005
Beyonce-Irreplaceable 2006-07
Flo Rida featuring T-Pain- Low 2008
Rihanna featuring Calvin harris-We Found Love 2011-12
Pharrell Williams Happy 2014
Adele-Hello 2015-16
Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla-One Dance 2016
Some Observations....
Notice how many of these songs listed are recent? Take all the songs off after the turn of the century and the list goes like this
One Sweet Day
I Will Always Love You
I'll Make Love to You
Macarena
Candle in the Wind 1997 (Goodbye England's Rose)
End of the Road
The Boy is Mine
Smooth
Don't Be Cruel
I Swear
Unbreak My Heart
I'll Be Missing You
Sincerely
Cherry pink and Apple Blossom White
You Light Up My Life
Physical
Take away everything after 1990
Don't Be Cruel
Sincerely
Cherry pink and Apple Blossom White
You Light Up My Life
Physical
Are the songs better now than they were? Or were there better songs to choose from back then?
Consider this..... In 1974 there were 36 number one hits out of 52 weeks. In 1975 there were 35.
In 2015, there were 9. Only 9 songs made it to number 1. In 2016 it was 11. 2017 and 2018 had 12.
This year, so far there have been 10. Considering one of those 10 was number one for almost 5 months. that's pretty impressive.
The Beatles song that stayed the longest at number 1 was 9 weeks for Hey Jude in 1968. They lead the pack with 20 number ones. Elvis and Mariah Carey are tied for second with 18. Rihanna and Michael Jackson round out the top 5 with 14 and 13 respectively.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/hot-100-turns-60/8468185/hot-100-turns-60-artists-with-the-most-no-1s
One more factoid to chew on here... What do Lorne Greene, Rick Dees and The Singing Nun have in common?
All three have more number one hits than does Bruce Springsteen.
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