Album: It was a single
Genre: Country
Released: 1956
In the 1950s, rock and roll music was becoming a huge influence, even for other genres including the country music. This song was an answer for this situation. The idea behind this song was to introduce a musical style to reach America’s youth. The song became a hit in 1956, especially in the American honky tonks, which are a type of bar with musical entertainment that is common in the Southwestern and Southern United States. “Crazy Arms” reached #1 on the Billboard magazine country music charts, spending 20 weeks there. Also, according to Billboard, it was the No. 1 country single of 1956. With this song, Ray Price introduced to the American fans to his special style with fiddle, pedal steel guitar, walking electric bass and swinging 4/4 rhythm.
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Album: TP-2.com
Genre: Rhythm and blues, pop, rap
Released: 2001
In 2001, this song spent five weeks at #1 on the US R&B chart and also reached #6 on the US pop chart. Robert Sylvester Kelly (R. Kelly) is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, rapper and music producer. Shawn Corey Carter (aka Jay-Z) is an American rapper and one of the richer hip hop artists. He also was CEO of a company (Roc-A-Fella Records). Billboard ranked the song as the most important R&B/Hip-Hop song in 2001. R. Kelly and Jay-Z have worked together several times with a great success. In 2003, they launched the album Kingdom Come which sold 680,000 copies in its first week.
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Album: Wilson Phillips
Genre: Pop
Released: 1990
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“Hold On” is a beautiful song that reached the #1 of Billboard Hot 100 in June 1990. It also was the first number one single of the Wilson Phillips, which is an American vocal group consisting of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson and Chynna Phillips. Carnie and Wendy are the daughters of Brian Wilson, who is a songwriter, bassist, and singer of the American rock and roll band The Beach Boys. On the other hand, Chynna is the daughter of The Mamas & the Papas’ band members John and Michelle Phillips. This song also reached the #1 on the US adult contemporary chart during a week. In 1991, the song received a nomination for Song of the Year.
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Album: Make It Big
Genre: Pop, Rhythm and blues
Released: 1984
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“Careless Whisper” was a huge commercial success around the world. Not only in United States or UK. The song was co-written by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, which were the two members of the duo called Wham! (disintegrated in 1986, two months after Michael released his second solo single). Apparently, the song talks about the guilt felt by a man over an affair and his acknowledgement that, eventually, his partner would find out that. “Careless Whisper” reached number one in nearly twenty-five countries and sold about six million copies around the world. The song is the 31st highest selling single of all time, according to the United World Chart.
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A-side: Don’t
Genre: Rock, Rock and roll
Released: 1958
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This song was the B-side to song “Don’t” which was released in 1958. “I Beg Of You” spent 12 weeks on the Top 100 chart, peaking at #8. Also, it peaked at #4 on the Rhythm and Blues Chart and #5 on the Country Disc Jockey Chart. “Don’t” and “I beg of you” were huge Elvis’ hits and some reports claim over 1 million copies were sold. The song was written by Rose Marie McCoy, which was one of the most influential and prolific songwriters of the 1950’s and 60’s, and Kelly Owens. Elvis recorded “I Beg Of You” on February 23, 1957 at Radio Recorders, a famous recording studio based in Los Angeles, California.
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Album: Breathe
Genre: Country Pop
Released: 1999
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“Breathe” was the first song single from the album of the same name by country artist Faith Hill, which was released in 1999. The song spent 53 weeks on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, although it never reached #1 on the chart. Actually, this singe was only the second song in the history of the Hot 100 to be named the most important single of the year without reaching a peak of #1. Faith Hill is one of the country divas in the 1990s that were really popular in the US. Her husband Tim McGraw is also a very successful country singer. “Breathe” also reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart during six weeks.
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Album: Waking Up the Neighbours
Genre: Soft rock
Released: 1991
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This song was a huge chart success around the world. It was 16 consecutive weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and seven weeks at #1 in the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen and Robert John “Mutt” Lange. The original idea was the promotion of the movie “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” although it ended up buried at the very end of the film credits because the film company was not happy with the song. “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” topped the charts in thirty countries and was the best-selling song of 1991. Also, it won a Grammy Award in 1992 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.
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Album: Dru Hill
Genre: R&B
Released: 1996
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In 1996, this song reached #1 on the US R&B chart during three weeks and #4 on the US Pop chart. Dru Hill is an American singing group whose repertoire included R&B, soul, and gospel music. They were famous during the late 1990s mainly. One of his members, called Sisqo, had a hit single (”Thong Song”) in 2000 and made Sisqo one of the biggest stars in R&B music for that year. The video of “In My Bed” shows Sisqo with his girlfriend while he thinks she’s cheating on him with another man, but then, she is discovered by him while she is flirting with another woman at the end of the video. The song was included on their 1996 debut album.
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Album: Wings at the Speed of Sound
Genre: Soft Rock, Glam Rock
Released: 1976
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This song became one of the best-selling singles of the 1970s and is listed #31 on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of all time. Paul McCartney had been criticized for writing lightweight songs, even John Lennon had made a comment about “silly love songs” and also said that Paul’s material was “a lot of rubbish”. For that reason, as a response to this, Paul McCartney wrote this song, which was his first try into the then-popular disco sound, together with his band Wings. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK Singles Chart.
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Album: Live Like You Were Dying
Genre: Country
Released: 2004
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This song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard country music charts and #29 on the Hot 100 in 2004. “Live Like You Were Dying” is about a man in his early forties with an life-threatening disease who decides to engage in certain activities that he has always wanted to do because he realizes that he does not have much time left to live. It is associated with Tug McGraw, who was the father of the singer (Tim McGraw). Tug McGraw was hospitalized with a brain tumor on March 12, 2003. He was given three weeks to live by the doctors but he lived during nine months since the diagnosis.
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