Can you name the top 5 songs (on the Billboard Hot 100) which have 4 letters or less?

created by Matt

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Correctly named songs will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
* 4 letters only (no numbers), and punctuation is disregarded for the purposes of this quiz
Also try: First Hit Song

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Year (Rank)	Song	Artist
1955 (4)		Al Hibbler
1956 (4)		Perry Como
1957 (4)		Ferlin Husky
1958 (1)		Elvis Presley
1958 (5)		Kalin Twins
1959 (1)		Frankie Avalon
1960 (1)		Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
1961 (4)		Timi Yuro
1962 (5)		Dee Dee Sharp
1964 (4)		Al Hirt
1965 (1)		The Beatles
1968 (2)		The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
1968 (4)		Deep Purple
1969 (2)		Oliver
1969 (2)		The Cowsills
1969 (5)		Three Dog Night
1970 (1)		Edwin Starr
1970 (1)		Jackson 5
1971 (3)		The Osmonds
1971 (4)		Bread
1972 (1)		Michael Jackson
1973 (3)		Carpenters

Year (Rank)	Song	Artist
1974 (1)		M.F.S.B.
1975 (1)		David Bowie
1975 (1)		Ohio Players
1977 (3)		Brick
1977 (4)		Commodores
1979 (1)		Herb Alpert
1979 (1)		Styx
1979 (2)		Village People
1979 (2)		Pointer Sisters
1979 (5)		John Stewart
1980 (1)		Kenny Rogers
1980 (4)		Irene Cara
1983 (4)		Spandau Ballet
1984 (1)		Van Halen
1986 (1)		Prince
1986 (1)		Starship
1987 (1)		Michael Jackson
1987 (3)		Suzanne Vega
1989 (3)		Bobby Brown
1990 (2)		M.C. Hammer
1990 (3)		The B-52's
1992 (1)		Kris Kross

Year (Rank)	Song	Artist
1992 (4)		Shakespear's Sister
1993 (1)		Mariah Carey
1993 (1)		SWV
1993 (4)		Janet Jackson
1993 (4)		Onyx
1994 (1)		Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
1995 (4)		Brandy
1996 (5)		Goo Goo Dolls
1998 (3)		Sarah McLachlan
2000 (1)		Matchbox Twenty
2001 (3)		Enrique Iglesias
2002 (3)		Chad Kroeger
2003 (4)		YoungBloodZ
2004 (1)		Usher
2004 (1)		Usher
2005 (2)		Ciara
2006 (1)		Rihanna
2007 (5)		J. Holiday
2008 (1)		Flo Rida
2009 (5)		Beyoncé
2009 (1)		Jay Sean ft. Lil Wayne

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4 Letter Hit Songs Quiz

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: August 3rd, 2009
Category: Music
Plays: 70,919

Tags: Song Quizzes, Artist Quizzes, Letter Quizzes, top, hit, 100, rank, billboard, hot, less

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	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 03:50 GMT	45 points
	Wanna know how tough this is? I WROTE the test and I still missed eight answers!

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 03:54 GMT	8 points
	One more thing: These are all the legit one-word four-letters or less top 5 hits of the Hot 100 era I could find. I know there were a lot more 4-letter titles, but they didn't make the Billboard's top 5. I'd love to do a similar quiz for UK hits, but haven't got a complete data base - the data stops 20 years ago!

	Supernuke:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	22 points
	why wasn't Iris an answer for goo goo dolls?

	brianc:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:21 GMT	4 points
	Iris only got to #9 on the Hot 100

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	10 points
	@rockgolf: Great quiz. Hard but fun.

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	zalagreensbury:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	-3 points
	Shakespeare's sister lol or Bananarama of the 90's...like when Duran Duran became Arcadia for like 15 minutes...just felt like musing over that madness for the sake of it.

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	10 points
	@Supernuke: Iris was a HUGE #1 airplay hit, but at the time Billboard only charted songs released as singles. Billboard changed the rules about 3 weeks too late for Iris to qualify.

	zalagreensbury:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:38 GMT	6 points
	lol when you put all these words together it makes a pretty (albeit totally grammatically incorrect) funny run on sentence.

	Kicking222:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:41 GMT	-3 points
	First, really interesting quiz. Second, I missed a few I shouldn't have, but also randomly guessed words ("When", "Gone", others) that ended up being correct. Third, I'm disappointed "Rio" only hit #14 in the US- I love me some old-school Duran Duran. Fourth and finally, while it's a great song, I don't think Lisa Loeb's "Stay" should really be up there, since it's called "Stay (I Missed You)".

	iceman1731:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:48 GMT	-2 points
	9/61 which is still about 9 more then I expected to get, the multiple Hero songs saved me

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	1 point
	@kicking: 1) thanks 2) good thinking 3) I understand. I was a Big Duran fan back in tha day 4) It qualifies twice anyhow, but for the purpose of this quiz, I kept to main titles.

	Babomomebeo:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	-3 points
	The numbers clause prevented "1999" from being the Prince song.

	pbysr:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	11 points
	This quiz is not down wit OPP.

	sammyhain2364:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 05:40 GMT	16 points
	Pretty confusing. On the front page it specifically says four letter songs. Didn't realize until I was done taking the quiz that it says four letters or less on the actual quiz page. BOOOOOOOO.

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	malonetd:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 06:05 GMT	3 points
	Nice to see you putting up some quizzes over here rockgolf

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	tikkamurph:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 08:26 GMT	0 points
	yeah i asssumed the goo goo dolls one was iris, wrongly. i typed too quickly to get he but got hero.... dammit

	plixgirl:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 09:05 GMT	5 points
	brilliant quiz!

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	LoveShack:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 GMT	2 points
	loved this quiz! was fretting over the Bowie one until I got it by typing in an answer to someone else haha

	revinthehead:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 12:15 GMT	2 points
	@jjs91: Iris by the GGD was released when the Billboard Hot 100 didn't allow songs without physical single releases to chart. That's why songs like that, "Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia and "Don't Speak" by No Doubt didn't chart high even though they were massive airplay hits. (That rule was removed some years ago, but with digital sales so strong now it doesn't come into play now anyway)

	Cheese_Ed:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 12:17 GMT	1 point
	Hard as hell, RockG, but a nice quiz. Sticking with the 4 theme are we?

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 12:32 GMT	3 points
	@pr: I thought you were right and I missed O.P.P. due to the punctuation, but it peaked at #6, so Hip-hop hurray for me! . . . . . @sammyhain: Sorry about that. I've also sent in a 5-letter song list which is more strict. Pays to read the instructions first. . . . . . @jjs91: "Wait" peaked at eight and if I'm Lion I'm dyin. . . . . @Wakka: I could do a whole quiz theme on song titles that are times, but 3am didn't qualify here because of the number. . . . . @malonetd & @Cheese_Ed: What are you guys doing up so early? ;-) Good to see other Four Word Film Reviews here (www.fwfr.com).

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 GMT	5 points
	Given that they missed only the Hot 100 on a technicality (and were #1 airplay hits) I think both "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls,1998) and "Torn" (Natalie Imbruglia, 1998) should be bonus answers. So if you got either of those two, give yourself bonus points.

	SixNapoleons:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 13:09 GMT	2 points
	@rockgolf - Try here for UK stats: http://www.everyhit.com/index.html It seems to inlove a bit of data-wading (I don't know the correct term) but it seems to have what you said was missing in an earlier post. If you need an assistant data-wader, let me know.

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	AdamL:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 13:54 GMT	0 points
	outstanding quiz. i did alright, but spent about 30 seconds typing and retyping iris and being very confused.

	Catherine_F:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 14:44 GMT	4 points
	I can't believe I typed eight four-letter Matchbox Twenty songs and not the one that's the answer. Also, I thought of "Ben" and "Bad" at the start of the quiz, while I was under the impression the answers were all four letters exactly, not four letters or fewer (correct grammar would be nice, Sporcle!) then forgot all about them later on.

	shawnoc:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 15:03 GMT	-1 points
	I can't believe that only 8% remember the MC Hammer hit "Pray"! I might be old.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 15:14 GMT	2 points
	@sammyhain: I thought the same thing about 4 letters, but I got "He" when I was trying to type "Hero" so I figured it out before I ran out of time.

	chikka2:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 17:03 GMT	2 points
	always liked your offbeat humour, rockgolf; who knew there was a titan of a quizzmaker behind it...am looking forward to the 5-letter quiz

	Pat423:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:10 GMT	2 points
	Wow, no single answer got guessed more than 57% of the time...

	indiekid:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 19:52 GMT	1 point
	Rockgolf: If you want a complete database of UK hits then go to www.everyhit.com

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	-1 points
	Surprised to not see YMCA here.

	xeju:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	0 points
	Good quiz! It was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. I only got 16 and was wracking my brain.

	rockgolf:	Aug 3rd, 2009 at 23:44 GMT	2 points
	@Indiekid: You're right: YMCA should qualify, but I missed it with all the darn punctuation. It peaked at #2.

	zimdelinvasor:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	4 points
	Anybody else get the Kenny Rogers one attempting to get the Styx one? xD

	GeoExpert:	Aug 4th, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	2 points
	@rockgolf: Of the quizzes that I make, it is pretty common for me to miss some of the answers.