Every track on popular gets a mark out of 10. Here’s your opportunity to give ticks to any track from 1958 you would have given more than 6 to.
Loading ...Use the comments box to reflect on the overall hits of the year, if you like!
Written by Tom on Monday, February 16th, 2004 | 104 views |
The UK's 1000+ Number One Hits since 1952, reviewed, in order, irregularly, for as long as I can bear to keep doing it. A history of pop in the shape of a chart.
If you enjoy Popular please link to it or tell your friends about it. The more people we have commenting and sharing their views on these songs, the better.
Index of reviews and scores so far
Popular FAQ
Popular on Twitter
Tom invented Freaky Trigger on a bus journey in the mid-90s. Typically, it took him 5 years to do anything about it. He also runs a marketing blog - blackbeardblog.com - and writes about pop music for whoever wants it.
Site is © the contributors, 1999–2008
Site powered by Wordpress using many wonderful plugins.
FT's Tom on May 9th, 2008
Check the “related articles” sidebar for previously posted polls - all perpetually open.
This is the year which currently has the highest average mark of any on Popular.
rosie on May 9th, 2008
Well I don’t know who voted before me, but great minds clearly think alike!
Billy Smart on May 9th, 2008
Seven out of thirteen - a lot better than 1967!
Good to see the love for Connie Francis.
DV on May 9th, 2008
‘Who’s sorry now?’ surely deserves a vote unheard, just for the title. Likewise ‘Whole lotta women’, for its multiple assaults on bourgeois English grammar.
Martin Skidmore on May 14th, 2008
I would have given Jerry Lee a 10, and Elvis and Lord Rockingham would have got a 7 or so each.
Tom on May 14th, 2008
Yes Jerry Lee was undervalued by me, certainly. Should’ve been a 9 at least.