# NPR's Sunday Puzzler 4/23/2017 = Pop Song titles as a Story **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061 "2017-04-23T12:53:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/1 "2017-04-23T12:53:38Z")
Anyone else hear this? A fun idea I hadn’t heard before: the next challenge is to check the Billboard Pop Charts, stringing together up to 7 song titles into a coherent story. This sounds like total Doper material - I stink at this stuff, but enjoy watching great puzzle minds wrap their brains around stuff like this. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/2 "2017-04-23T12:54:58Z")
Oy. Reported to move to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/3 "2017-04-23T13:49:26Z")
Anybody got a handy link to the Billboard Chart? This one is extremelyh laborious to scroll down through. > **[Billboard Hot 100](https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/)** > > THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY FROM DIGITAL MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY LUMINATE AND … ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/4 "2017-04-23T13:55:56Z")
You can go to the above link, Edit, Select All, Copy, Paste to notebook, but you get a list of alternating titles and artists. Which ar sometimes hard to tell apart. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/5 "2017-04-23T14:36:35Z")
Here’s my fist effort: (99) If I Told You (86) How Not To (1) Work (36) Slide (35) Down (23) Closer (5) Something Just Like This ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/6 "2017-04-23T14:44:58Z")
They don’t have the Puzzle or the example Shortz offered on the Puzzler page, just a link to the 7-minute bit from this morning where it is explained: [http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle](http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle) The example was along the lines of “the night the lights went out in Georgia I was leaving on a jet plane…” ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/7 "2017-04-24T01:38:18Z")
Yesterday, I saw her standing there. The night before, she said she said “Love Me, do, Honey pie! I’m happy just to dance with you.” I’m so tired. I will drive my car across the universe, for no one. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/8 "2017-04-24T05:58:48Z")
Cuts like a knife, over and over. Reach out, I’ll be there (pieces of me). These arms of mine, my ding-a-ling, we are never ever getting back together. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/9 "2017-04-24T12:32:25Z")
Off to Cafe Society ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/10 "2017-04-24T13:06:12Z")
Not just titles, but entire songs (by the same artist) that tell a story. “Young Girl” “Don’t Give In to Him” “Lady Willpower” “This Girl is a Woman Now.” “Woman, Woman” “Over You.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/11 "2017-04-24T14:36:20Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > They don’t have the Puzzle or the example Shortz offered on the Puzzler page, just a link to the 7-minute bit from this morning where it is explained: [Sunday Puzzle : NPR](http://www.npr.org/series/4473090/sunday-puzzle) > > The example was along the lines of “the night the lights went out in Georgia I was leaving on a jet plane…” He did say Wikipedia had a list. I had to do some digging but I think I found the page he meant. I’m posting from my phone so I hope this works. > **[Lists of Billboard number-one singles](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_number-one_singles)** > > This is a list of songs that have peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and the magazine's national singles charts that preceded it. Introduced in 1958, the Hot 100 is the pre-eminent singles chart in the United States, currently monitoring the most popular singles in terms of popular radio play, single purchases and online streaming. > The following year-by-year, week-by-week listings are based on data accrued by Billboard magazine before and after the inception of its Hot 100 populari... There is a section on that page for the Hot 100 era and then a link for each year. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/12 "2017-04-24T17:31:00Z")
Bump Bump Bump. Shake it off, foolish honey! I believe the monster, it’s only make believe. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nprs-sunday-puzzler-4-23-2017-pop-song-titles-as-a-story/785061/13 "2017-04-25T18:19:26Z")
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for. Whoomp! There it is!