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The Number Ones: Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: You can’t engineer an album that’ll be guaranteed to spin off multiple hit songs, especially if you’re a debuting artist…
August 12, 2021
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The Number Ones: Martika’s “Toy Soldiers”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: As a pure pop-chart phenomenon, goth was bigger than grunge…
August 5, 2021
The Number Ones: Madonna’s “Like A Prayer”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: What do you do with Catholicism? I’m asking because I don’t know…
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The Number Ones: Fine Young Cannibals’ “She Drives Me Crazy”
According to one of our musical sources: We need chameleons. Without chameleons, you don’t get something like “She Drives Me Crazy…
The Number Ones: Phil Collins’ “Two Hearts”
According to one of our preferred musical sources:Phil Collins didn’t want to do the music for his movie Buster…
July 6, 2021
The Number Ones: UB40’s “Red Red Wine”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: “Red Red Wine” had a wild ride. The UK band UB40 first released the single in 1983…
The Number Ones: Richard Marx’s “Hold On To The Nights”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: The entire idea of pop stardom is supposed to be all about excitement — about flash and charisma and general show-business razzmatazz…
The Number Ones: Michael Jackson’s “Dirty Diana”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: When big-haired glam metal had its big pop-chart moment in the late ’80s, Michael Jackson paid attention…
The Number Ones: Debbie Gibson’s “Foolish Beat”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: The ’60s cast a long shadow over late-’80s pop…
The Number Ones: Rick Astley’s “Together Forever”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: When the Supremes first reached #1 with their 1964 single “Where Did Our Love Go,” Motown boss Berry Gordy knew he had something, and he qu…
The Number Ones: George Michael’s “Father Figure”
According to one of our musical sources:In the ’80s, pop music made noise. In the middle part of the decade, most of the biggest hits sounded big — bright, sleek, maximalist…
The Number Ones: Whitney Houston’s “Where Do Broken Hearts Go”
According to one of our preferred musical sources: When Whitney Houston took her dance-pop single “So Emotional” to #1 in January of 1988, she hit a new benchmark…