Plus, remembering feats by Adele, Katy Perry & Color Me Badd.
Your weekly recap celebrating important milestones from greater than seven a long time of Billboard chart historical past.
Sept. 17, 2011
Adele‘s “Someone Like You” turned the primary piano-and-vocals solely No. 1 within the Billboard Hot 100‘s historical past.
Sept. 18, 2010
Katy Perry took the title lower from her album Teenage Dream to the highest of the Billboard Hot 100. It’s considered one of 5 No. 1s from the set, the one album by a lady ever to yield a quintet of leaders. The solely different LP to generate 5 Hot 100 No. 1s: Michael Jackson’s Bad in 1987-88. Speaking of …
Sept. 19, 1987
… Michael Jackson‘s Bad generated its first of 5 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s: lead single “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” with Siedah Garrett.
Sept. 20, 1969
A cartoon tune topped the Billboard Hot 100: The Archies‘ “Sugar, Sugar.” Of course, there was actual expertise behind the scenes: Andy Kim co-wrote the tune. He’d go on to high the Hot 100 in 1974 with “Rock Me Gently.”
Sept. 21, 1991
After the oh-so-direct “I Wanna Sex You Up” reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1991, Color Me Badd reigned with the extra historically romantic “I Adore Mi Amor.”
Sept. 22, 1984
John Waite‘s “Missing You” made its approach to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Waite, who first broke by means of within the ’70s as a part of the band The Babys, would lead the Hot 100 once more in 1989 as a part of one other group: singing lead on Bad English’s “When I See You Smile.”
Sept. 23, 1989
Over a 12 months earlier than being uncovered for not singing its hits, Milli Vanilli scored its second of three Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s: ballad “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You.” The duo first reigned with “Baby Don’t Forget My Number” and adopted “Miss” with its third and ultimate chief, “Blame It on the Rain.” Also on Sept. 23, 1989, father or mother album Girl You Know It’s True topped the Billboard 200 eventually in its 27th week, for its first of seven weeks at No. 1.