# How many songs have ever achieved "Number 1 with a Bullet"?

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**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-ever-achieved-number-1-with-a-bullet/834666 "2019-05-28T19:30:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-songs-have-ever-achieved-number-1-with-a-bullet/834666/21 "2019-05-30T03:19:53Z")

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I think originally \*Billboard \*reserved the term for a record that had jumped either five or ten positions from the previous week. In other words a song could get a bullet, lose it, then get it back.

I’m certain there were other songs that reached #1 with a bullet, they just didn’t start there. Especially in the '60s, but also the '70s, singles were the best sellers, and linked tightly with radio airplay. During that time, #1 songs didn’t stay #1 for very long, because the teenagers ran out, bought the single, then did the same thing the next week with a different record. According to music historian Fred Bronson, _Yesterday_ by the Beatles spent a total of just 11 weeks in the Top 100.

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