Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
Kendrick Lamar holds the #17 position with ‘Not Like Us,’ giving him three songs in the top 20 (so far). This track was the #6 song of 2024, and another indication that 2025 didn’t introduce many new hits.
At #18 is Morgan Wallen’s ‘Just in Case,’ his fourth track in the top 20. At least this one was released last year.
Between 1976 and 1991, Billboard froze their final Hot 100 chart of the year to focus on a year-end wrap-up issue. So the #1 song the week of January 4, 1986, was the same as the prior week. That was Lionel Richie’s ‘Say Say Say,’ enjoying its second week atop the chart.
In the #2 spot that New Years week was the appropriately titled ‘Party All the Time,’ the first single from Eddie Murphy’s debut music album How Could It Be. This was the kickoff to an ill-fated music career that spanned three albums, poor reviews, and this one hit.
It’s a new year of Throwback Weekends, and we’re kicking things off with an appropriate title for the first weekend of 2026.
On the week of January 3, 1976, the song ‘Saturday Night’ by Bay City Rollers topped the Billboard Hot 100, giving the Scottish rock band its one and only U.S. #1.
Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
When a forgettable track by The Weeknd and Playboi Carti is the 16th most popular song of the year, you know 2025 wasn’t a great time for new music. Not only have I never heard ‘Timeless,’ I didn’t know it existed.
The song was the lead single of The Weeknd’s sixth studio album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, a companion piece to the film of the same name. The movie was a massive flop, dismissed as a nonsensical ego trip.
Continuing my look at the top songs of 2025…
The 15th most popular song of 2025 belonged to Kendrick Lamar. ‘TV Off’ is Lamar’s second appearance on the list, after his ‘Luther’ collab with SZA showed up at #2. The songs were the second and third singles on his surprise 2024 album GNX.
The song was produced by Mustard (among others), and bears a striking similarity to the duo’s smash Drake diss track ‘Not Like Us.’
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