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Can you name the most common words in the titles of #1 Billboard Hot 100 songs?
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rockgolf
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Includes all words in the main titles and subtitles exactly as they appeared on the chart. Includes all songs from first Hot 100 list in 1958 through end of 2010.
Source:
Several books by Joel Whitburn, mostly Top Pop Singles
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99 Most Common Words: US #1 Songs Quiz
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rockgolf
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Jan 17th, 2011 at 21:26 GMT
8 points
For those wondering, there's an 18 way tie for #100 with 5 mentions each: Wild, Wanna, U, Thing, Star, New, Name, Know, Hot, Girls, Fire, Enough, Day, Cry, Crazy, City, By, & Blue
rockgolf
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 03:33 GMT
9 points
Who can compose the best imaginary title from the words in this list?
chriskotx
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 04:00 GMT
11 points
Way cool quiz. "Little Baby, Let Me Come Back to Your Angel Eyes and Your Heart of Love"
EasyTarget
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 04:21 GMT
8 points
"Don't kiss that lady over there"
corndog
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 06:03 GMT
34 points
"I can't kiss you down there."
corndog
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 06:05 GMT
14 points
"Don't shake that black baby!"
BigThing
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:08 GMT
4 points
"Rock my heart if I can't get up" 5 points obviously, great fun.
caramba
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:38 GMT
2 points
I got more words thinking of KC And The Sunshine Band songs than The Beatles, Elvis or The Supremes.
codejlandt
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 12:54 GMT
3 points
Awesome quiz.
rockgolf
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 13:20 GMT
2 points
@Caramba: One KC song accounts for 4 of the 6 appearances of the 2nd-least-guessed word.
giveupyet
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 19:32 GMT
-2 points
Great quiz! Obviously this will be outdated in no time, as the songs constantly change in the Billboard Hot 100, but I'm going to nominate it anyway, just because the idea is so novel and fun.
MorningBell411
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Jan 18th, 2011 at 20:27 GMT
2 points
"If You Don't Like This Song, You're A Bad Boy"
Anyway, great quiz. Nice URL too. How did you count the words, though? I once tried to make a similar quiz on a different subject. I was typing every single word into Excel, and then I was going to order them alphabetically and count each one of them. But by about 1/6 of the typing stage it became really tedious and I gave up...
rockgolf
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT
8 points
@MorningBell: Here's the 411. I already have a spreadsheet of Billboard top 40 song by title, artist, date & highest position. I just filtered it down to the #1 songs during the Hot 100 era, used the Excel "Text to Table" feature to split each title at blanks, so each cell contained only one word, removed any punctuation (such as brackets, commas, periods, etc.), then put the results in a single column. Then I put "1" in each cell following the word, and created a Pivot table (under the Data tab) to give me a count of each word in descending order of frequency. This created a table with the words and counts that I could copy into the Sporcle "Insert new data" page. The whole thing only took about 10 minutes.
Hooby
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 21:01 GMT
3 points
ah yes of course, this brings me back to the 90s with the #1 hit "The You I Love"
rockgolf
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 21:04 GMT
2 points
@hooby: Was that by Amy Metoofin?
codejlandt
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 21:31 GMT
1 point
@rockgolf, did you create the spreadsheet yourself from independent research (if so, what sources, if you don't mind my asking), or is there a list of all songs that have been in the top 40 since August 1958? I've just been going page by page through the Wikipedia pages of number one hits (for which I'm compiling a spreadsheet myself), but it would be great to have access to a fuller (and more easily searchable) corpus of
all
top 40 hits.
MorningBell411
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 21:35 GMT
1 point
@rockgolf: Thanks! Can you just tell me where I can get that top 40 list? It might come in handy in the future.
*I actually wrote this before the above comment was there...
codejlandt
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 21:55 GMT
1 point
@MorningBell411: Sorry to preempt you then!
giveupyet
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:19 GMT
3 points
I just saw the instructions, so my above comment is voided. The dates end in 2010, so it won't be outdated.
rockgolf
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:41 GMT
1 point
@morningbell: I derived it from several books by Joel Whitburn & Fred Bronson, and it's for my own use. Sorry, I can't distribute it.
Kicking222
:
Jan 18th, 2011 at 22:44 GMT
0 points
First off, this is absolutely brilliant; I expect nothing less from you, RG, but this is even more brilliant than your usual brilliant quizzes. It's rarely this easy to give 5 globes. Second, I pretty much NEVER brag about my score on a game, and I know people have certainly gotten more, but I thought of 80, and I'm
really
happy about it. Plus, when I take it again in a couple of months, maybe I'll do even better!
Man, this quiz was fun!
rockgolf
:
Jan 19th, 2011 at 00:14 GMT
3 points
I'd like to take credit for the concept of this quiz, but I can't.
Yesterday,
Bilbrekk
posted the similar quiz
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bilbrekk/esc_words which was the list of most common words in Eurovision song titles. However, the average American, asked to name as many Eurovision entries as they can will come up with zero songs. Also, since not all Eurovision songs are in English, it used translations, which may or may not be as precise. So I took the concept and applied it to #1s on the Hot 100 instead.
But please try Bilbrekk's game too, if only to compare and contrast.
googlebird
:
Jan 19th, 2011 at 00:41 GMT
7 points
Loved it. You make it sound so easy to make, but you lost me after spreadsheet;}
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teosdesserts
:
Jan 19th, 2011 at 00:42 GMT
-22 points
got 9 right, then died of bordem
MorningBell411
:
Jan 19th, 2011 at 01:07 GMT
5 points
@rockgolf: Ok. I hadn't realised it was actually a list you assembled yourself. I thought it was "out there". And I'm somewhat amazed that you actually put that together... Must have been loads of work!
And, by the way, at least in Portugal, no one really cares about Eurovision anymore. Apparently, people used to back in the 50s-60s-70s, but I just checked the last 13 years' Portuguese entries and I don't even know any of them, and I've only heard of three of the performers. And I only know one of the winning songs from those years (Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah", which actually became pretty well-known all over Europe, I believe). So I actually relate more to this quiz than to a Eurovision one ;-)
Tahnan
:
Jan 19th, 2011 at 07:15 GMT
2 points
I wonder how many #1 songs used *only* words on this list. Certainly "Baby One More Time" and...well, I was going to say "I Want It That Way", but apparently it peaked at #6, despite going to #1 on every other chart in the world.
katesutton
:
Jan 20th, 2011 at 01:22 GMT
3 points
Oh people put effort into coming up with imaginary song titles from this list. I was just amused by the words in the order that they were appearing. I think my favorite is "Don't Woman Up This With There Baby".
Kicking222
:
Jan 20th, 2011 at 13:15 GMT
2 points
@Tahnan: I can't think of many, but I know that "Say Say Say" only uses words (well,
a word
) from the list. ;)
Stewart
:
Jan 21st, 2011 at 05:29 GMT
4 points
I'm all "girl, night, heart"...like, can't up! I'm going to write a song using these 99 words, in this order, as the entire lyrics. It can't miss, right?
pottedstu
:
Jan 21st, 2011 at 22:50 GMT
1 point
"Baby one more time". Britney was quite useful for this.
EyeKanFly
:
Jan 22nd, 2011 at 05:10 GMT
2 points
Despite being entirely made of these words, Rick Astley's slightly less popular alternate takes "I'm Gonna Give You Up" "Baby I'll Give You Up" and "How About I Give You Up" never quite made the charts.... but seriously, great quiz!
burnsy
:
Jan 26th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT
1 point
I'm just glad that "u" didn't turn up. Though I guess in a few years, it'll be a different story.
daHOOK
:
Jan 26th, 2011 at 22:14 GMT
-1 points
wordss? 99 99 most common words? titlesof? I expected better from rockgolf.
adehp
:
Jan 28th, 2011 at 02:11 GMT
7 points
For the sake of keeping things uniform, you could capitalize And. :) That's the only quibble I have with this quiz.
congo
:
Jan 28th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT
3 points
I can't believe "Pokerface" wasn't on here.
rockgolf
:
Jan 31st, 2011 at 12:50 GMT
5 points
@Congo: It was close. It was in the Killing Me Softly With Her Pokerface, Bohemian Pokerface, Pokerface Will Always Love You and, of course, I Want to Poke 'er Face. If only Smells Like Pokerface Spirit had got to #1...
Game published: Feb 1st, 2011 at 04:08 GMT
VengefulQuaker
:
Feb 1st, 2011 at 04:46 GMT
11 points
I can not tell you how happy I am that money, cash, etc. isn't on this list. Income statements just doesn't make good songs... simply my opinion
hamstrung
:
Feb 1st, 2011 at 04:52 GMT
26 points
I love that "shake" made it, but not "dance".
acroarcs
:
Feb 1st, 2011 at 05:12 GMT
5 points
From the last five years, I get these songs with just the listed words: Bruno Mars' "Just the Way You Are," Jay Sean's "Down," Pink's "So What," Timbaland's "Give It to Me," and Alicia Keys' "No One." Five in five years was more than I expected, actually.
CrimsonE
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Feb 1st, 2011 at 05:32 GMT
0 points
It's funny what you can put together with this alone, although I don't know if any of the songs made the top 100 When It's Love: Van Halen You're In Love; Ratt All of My Love: Led Zeppelin Rock With You: Michael Jackson Good game--thanks for sharing.
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