What's the worst song ever that reached #1?

[DrDeth]

@Jackmannii

This deep into the thread and nobody’s named “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero”? #1 both in the U.K. and the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974.*

Billy, don’t be a hero
Don’t be a fool with your life
Billy, don’t be a hero
Come back and make me your wife…

Yeah, I hate that song. But it was a strong antiwar song, so it was popolar.

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@Colibri

Personally, I would exclude novelty songs from contention. While they can be highly annoying when played incessantly, they were never intended to be good songs. They’re really just jokes set to music. I think they’re in a different category from the other songs mentioned in this thread, in which the performers were actually trying to produce something good. It’s like comparing Sharknado or Snakes on a Plane to Showgirls or Battlefield Earth.

I concur. Novelty songs are in a special category.

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@terentii

ANYTHING by Helen Reddy belongs in the same pot! The same goes for Dolly Parton. Yeccch! :mad:

9 to 5 begs to disagree. Mind you, some of her songs are quite glurgy.

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@Yorkshire_Pudding

I like MacArthur Park. I like Break My Stride, Sugar Sugar, Chirpy-Chirpy Cheep-Cheep, We Built This City, Good Morning Starshine and Angie Baby. Possibly others in the thread too, but I can’t be arsed scrolling to remind myself…

Sugar sugar is one of those songs that I like if played very rarely. If played too often, it becomes horrid.

MacArthur Park is not even a song, since he doesnt *sing. *

Not to mention it would depress a hyena.

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@Exapno_Mapcase

Written by a man, of course.

Nitpick: her name is spelled Deniece.

Her brother is Denephew?

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@Kryten

The absolutely worst song that actually made it to number 1 on the Billboard pop charts in 1958 is The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley.

Novelty song. I kinda like it.

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@Kent_Clark

My Ding-a-Ling, for two reasons

1. It’s a terrible piece of crap, the kind of thing that’s sung at frat parties

2. It’s Chuck Berry’s only #1 song, which represents all the injustice in the world

3. Hi Opal

4. Worst of all it edged out Bill Withers Use me from making #1.

[terentii]

@DrDeth

9 to 5 begs to disagree. Mind you, some of her songs are quite glurgy.

Au contraire. 9 to 5 proves my point to the nth degree.

[terentii]

@DrDeth

Here are ten weird #1 hits:
https://www.houstonpress.com/music/the-top-10-weirdest-us-no-1-hits-6497014

Batdance. really.:eek:

Why is Miami Vice on that list? That theme rocks!

When it comes to Batdance, I automatically think of this:

The Batusi