I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC.

i got to herbie bonson before my lady figured out something was up

ten feet high club vs little timmy vs mambo no. 4

mambo no 4 is almost a better joke without the inclusion of 3, 2 and 1

i can't believe im queen

That was the one where I howled

"Britain (Is Where I'm From)" for the umlaut in the John Smith name combined with "leave the lights on during the Blitz."

Honorable Mention: Ten Feet High Club

egyptian mambo is when my co-workers started looking at me and i had to close the tab

Okay, yeah, I'm gonna have to spend some time with this one when I'm not at work.

so happy when Nurse Licebarron's "Little Timmy" got resurrected by Elton John centuries later, though still aggrieved he renamed the character Jeannie

"Rock Scraping on Other Rock" singlehandedly created Throbbing Gristle

I really, really laughed at the Handel one, just for the timing.

zadok the priest is the only correct answer

penny dropped last night while revisiting that Jöhn Smith is in fact a German spy ('eating chips and fish') who made a single that Britishers bought in their droves telling them to leave their lights on so the Nazis can bomb them.
How do you fit so much backstory into 10"s?

it's finished. play!

clear EOY contender

voted "do the crunch"

laffs aside the list is approximately as well researched and accurate as the serious lists on that topic which have been spammed onto wikipedia

I didn't realize teh songs had audio samples yesterday. this is even better now

"I can't believe that worked, I only read the WikiHow"

laffs aside the list is approximately as well researched and accurate as the serious lists on that topic which have been spammed onto wikipedia

― dyl

it's sourced!

nah it's not _that_ well-researched, i could nitpick for days.

the beethoven entry reminds me of the existing piano roll of joplin playing his "maple leaf rag" in june 1916 (the uni-record recording, not the slightly earlier connorized). i've seen people argue over it trying somehow to claim that this represents his actual style. having heard the roll, it mostly seems to me to represent tertiary syphilis :(

I still cherish the moment when I first heard the Bee Gee's "Haaaah", wondering how I escaped hearing that billion-seller in it's day. Seems just like yesterday.

I still cherish the moment when I first heard the Bee Gee's "Haaaah", wondering how I escaped hearing that billion-seller in it's day. Seems just like yesterday.

― file of unknown origin (bendy)

yeah i felt the same way when i first heard "children of the world" a month ago

meatls got robbed

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Rock Scraping On Other Rock (Once) by a country mile

First blastbeat

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Solid results ILM, hope the new decade can produce something of the calibre of Zadok The Priest (Club Edit)

account has been suspended! what the fuck!

did anyone put these on youtube?

he received a prehistoric DMCA notice

gogmagog's lawyer is a real ball buster

I am…

…I am Superman!

…The Magnificent!

Glög was unfairly snubbed tbh

looks like these are back online!

I am a music historian, and with @AdrianRMG I have researched the best-selling single of every decade all the way back to 14,000BC. Here's a thread:

2010s - Ed Sheeran, The Shape of You pic.twitter.com/Y4rrOdSGY2

— Archie Henderson (@archiehench) December 5, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Vh8oG2nio