Today in Music History 1984 - Tina Turner completes her comeback as "What's Love Got To Do With It" hits #1 in America. It came from, at the time, the 44 year old singer's fifth album Private Dancer. It was the second biggest song of the year behind Prince's "When Doves Cry." It received three awards at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Trivia: It was originally offered to Cliff Richard, but he rejected

1988 - INXS land their first and only US #1 with "Need You Tonight." It was the lead off single from their sixth album Kick. I feel it needs to be with "Mediate" for the complete song. For that parts video, it segues into a tribute to Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". The members flip cue cards with words from the song; the last one displays the words "Sax Solo," at which point Kirk Pengilly starts a saxophone solo. The video won five MTV Video Music Awards including

Today in Music History - 1984: Thanks to a ban by the BBC, "Relax," the debut single from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, hits #1 in the UK. In America, the #1 song is "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes. Both songs are produced by Trevor Horn, making him the first producer with #1s simultaneously in both territories with different acts.

1976 - 50 Years Ago The Bee Gees were sitting atop the Billboard Dance Chart with "You Should Be Dancing." It spent 7 weeks at #1. It also made #1 Hot 100 and #4 R&B. The song was used in Saturday Night Fever in the classic lighted dance floor scene where John Travolta shows his moves.

Today in Music History 1978 we were in the grip of GreaseMania! It hit the box office in June 21st, and hit #1 it's second week on June 28th and was #1 till July 20th. (Star Wars was rereleased and hit #1 again but Grease still performed well.) The soundtrack was a smash as well, giving us four top 5s and 2 #1s, including the one that hit #1 today in 1978. Frankie Valli and the title track "Grease." The Bee Gees still flying high from Saturday Night Fever touched gold again w

Today in Music History - Happy Birthday to Greg Jacobs..better known as Shock G and Humpty Hump with Digital Underground. We all did "The Humpty Dance," which made a protest about the uniformity among successful rappers of the time, the song was a #1 Rap song, made #11 Hot 100, and #7 on the R&B Chart. "The Humpty Dance" is Shock G's second song to feature his alter-ego "Humpty Hump," who debuted on "Doowutchyalike" which was Digital Underground's first video release in 1989.

Today in Music History 1999 - 18-year-old Christina Aguilera releases her self-titled debut album, which includes three #1 hits: "Genie in a Bottle," "What a Girl Wants" and "Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)." It ushers in a new era of teen pop alongside her former Mickey Mouse Club star, Britney Spears. * A Genie, you perv!!!!

Monday 8/24/26 Celebrate: Can Opener Day International Strange Music Day National Knife Day National Peach Pie Day National Waffle Day Pluto Demoted Day - The International Astronomical Union voted to reclassify Pluto as a "dwarf planet," officially shrinking our solar system down to eight major planets and triggering a quarter-century of playground debates. Shooting Star Day Vesuvius Day Weather Complaint Day -- Weekend Box Office 1. Spider-Man: Brand New Day $39.0M (fourth

Today in Music History 1949 - Paging Dr. Noah Drake, Paging Dr. Drake. Rick Springfield is born in New South Wales, Australia. He has been making music since 1971, but it wasn't until "Jessie's Girl" in 1981 that we really heard of him in this country. His follow-up to that #1 was a song written by Sammy Hagar in 1978 (it didn't chart for him in the US), "I've Done Everything For You." It made #8. Note: Neil Giraldo, Pat Benatar's soon-to-be husband, was guitarist and bassis

Today in Music History - 1977, The Emotions were sitting at #1 in the US with the disco track "Best Of My Love" for the first of five weeks. It’s not a remake of the same-titled song by the Eagles from two years earlier. It won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. Recently, it was sampled by Paul Russell for "'Lil Boo Thang."

Today in Music History - 1979, Chic's "Good Times" is in at #1 in America for one week. Of course it’s used later in the year for “Rapper’s Delight” which gets Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers a writing credit after they sue.

Today in Music History - 1979 Chic's "Good Times" went to #1. In a 2015 interview Rodgers stated that "Good Times" was partly inspired by the 1974 Kool & The Gang song "Hollywood Swinging". "Rapper's Delight" interpolates Chic's "Good Times", resulting in Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards threatening to sue Sugar Hill Records for copyright infringement; a settlement was reached that gave the two songwriting credits.

Today in Music History - 2002 Nelly becomes the fifth artist to replace himself at #1 on the Hot 100 when "Dilemma" takes the top spot from "Hot In Herre." (Band-Aid on face era) The ones before were Elvis, The Beatles, Boyz II Men, and P.Diddy/Puff Daddy.

Wednesday 8/12/26 Celebrate: Baseball Fans Day IBM PC Day International Youth Day National Julienne Fries Day National Middle Child Day National Sewing Machine Day Truck Driver Day Vinyl Record Day World Calligraphy Day World Elephant Day -- The Weeknd is here to stay. While there was a time when the Grammy winner thought he might drop his stage name, not anymore. “I tested retirement a little bit, and I don’t like the way it feels,” the artist told his concert audience Satur

Today in Music History - 1975 - The Bee Gees went to #1 with "Jive Talkin'." The song also went #9 Club and was included on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack.

Today in Music History - 1991 - The KLF went to #1in the UK with "3am Eternal." Taken from The White Room, it made #5 on the Hot 100 and #1 Club here in America.

Wednesday 8/5/26 Celebrate: Green Peppers Day International Traffic Light Day - 1914, what is considered to be the first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, at the corner of East 105th Street and Euclid Avenue. National Oyster Day National Underwear Day Work Like a Dog Day – Today in Music History - 2023 - For the first time since 1958, country songs claim the top three spots on the Hot 100: #1 "Try That in a Small Town" by Jason Aldean #2 "Last Night" by

Today in Music History - 2000 - "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes from the movie Coyote Ugly was released. Written by Diane Warren and produced by Trevor Horn, it peaked at #11and #17 Club. It did reach #1 in Australia. Rimes was the singing voice for lead Piper Perabo in the film. The movie opened in the US to $17.3 million (4th place) and grossed $113 million worldwide! This is most likely the one you heard in the clubs.

Today in 1996 The Macarena went to #1 and stayed there for 14 weeks. We will not be posting that today! Let’s go one year later to 1997 where Def Leppard released Hysteria! It's their fourth album and their follow-up to Pyromania and spawned seven singles. Their biggest single from it is "Love Bites," which made #1 and the crowd pleasing "Pour Some Sugar on Me" made #2. https://youtu.be/0UIB9Y4OFPs?si=ICZQmz7z3ce4dzZO

2014 - Weird Al gets his first #1 album Word Crimes. He released a video a day for a week to hype the album. They were brilliant!