If Ellie Goulding wasn't number one on the first chart of 2015, then it isn't the first number one of the year. It's that simple. It makes no difference whether something was a re-entry, moved back up to number one, or anything else, it's a simple matter of understanding the ...
In late 1963 The Supremes were turned over to the in-house production team formed by Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian Holland and Eddie Holland. From the very beginning the collaboration worked like magic when their first release, "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" became a ...
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The singer was just 24 when he recorded his biggest hit. The Supremes –“You Can’t Hurry Love” and “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” Between 1964 and 1967, the trio earned an astonishing ten #1 pop hits, all of which were composed by the songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. Hitsvi...
Explore every UK Number 1 album in history, from the first ever Number 1 album - Frank Sinatra's Songs For Swingin' Lovers - to the reigning chart topper on this week's Official Albums Chart, compiled by the Official Charts Company. Click on the links above to jump to the Number 1 alb...
He is one of the founding members of Planxty and Moving Hearts. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards. Also ranks #15 on The Best Irish Folk Band...
“I can’t get to sleep/I think about the implications” — now there is one extremely 1983 opening couplet. Men at Work did happy-go-lucky pub-rock singalongs like “Down Under,” one of the year’s first Number One hits. But under the jolly surface, the Australian band explored sur...
Eventually achieving quadruple Platinum status and spawning the hit "Closer," it broke Nine Inch Nails through to the mainstream and made Reznor an alternative rock icon. That same year, Reznor made his first forays into Hollywood, working on the music for the hit film "Natural...
The group was the first multi-racial group to have a number 1 hit in the UK in the 1960s. The Foundations are notable for being one of the few label acts to successfully imitate what became known as the Motown Sound. In terms of line-up and musical style, they anticipated the sound ...
Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, "bridging the color lines in music at the time."With a string of hit singles composed ...