# Billboard Music Chart Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 1, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390 "2001-03-01T15:33:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/1 "2001-03-01T15:33:13Z")
Has a song ever been #1 on the Billboard Top 100 singles’ chart, fallen from the top spot (but remained in the Top 100), only to climb back up to the #1 spot? Even a drop to #2 and then back up to #1 the following week? If it’s happened more than once, what was the biggest drop for a song from #1 before returning to the top of the chart? (I’m not talking about a song that may have gone #1 and then was rereleased at some later time and hit #1 again. Only songs that never left the Top 100 before returning to the #1 spot count.) ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/2 "2001-03-01T16:21:38Z")
Hmm, maybe I should do at least a _little_ research before posting a thread. Apparently, several songs have been the #1 song in non-consecutive weeks. [This site lists all #1 songs](http://home.planet.nl/~haan0654/hot100.htm) and indicates which were #1 in non-consecutive weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/3 "2001-03-01T16:34:07Z")
Heck, if you inspect the chart closely, you"ll see that Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” hit number one in two different YEARS. And it wasn’t a remake, just a re-release. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/4 "2001-03-01T16:45:34Z")
Yeah, I knew about “The Twist.” That’s why excluded songs that reached number one and fell off the chart all together only to reach #1 again when re-released, as mentioned in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![HomeSlice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@HomeSlice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HomeSlice)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/5 "2001-03-01T17:09:34Z")
Did Bohemian Rapsody make it to #1 twice? ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/6 "2001-03-01T17:17:41Z")
That’s a rerelease. Read the OP folx! ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/billboard-music-chart-question/56390/7 "2001-03-01T17:23:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by HomeSlice \* > \*\*Did Bohemian Rapsody make it to #1 twice? \*\* According to the site above it never made it to #1 _once_, let alone twice. That would’ve been similar to “The Twist” though. What I’d like to find is a song that went to #1, fell below say #5 or #10, then for some reason went back up to #1. A Buddy Holly song maybe around the time that he died?