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Here’s a mind-numbing generational disparity: Billboard number 1 songs of 2008 vs. 1968. Check it:
2008: Billboard’s Hot 100 Number 1 Songs
- Low – Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain (01.05.08)
- Love in this Club – Usher Featuring Young Jeezy (03.15.08)
- Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis (04.05.08)
- Touch My Body – Mariah Carey (04.12.08)
- Lollipop – Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major (05.03.08)
- Take A Bow – Rihanna (05.24.08)
- Viva La Vida – Coldplay (06.28.08)
- I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry (07.05.08)
1968: Billboard’s Hot 100 Number 1 Songs
- Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) – John Fred and the Playboys (01.20.68)
- Green Tambourine – The Lemon Pipers (02.03.68)
- Love Is Blue – Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra (02.10.68)
- Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding (03.16.68)
- Honey – Bobby Goldsboro (04.13.68)
- Tighten up – Archie Bell & the Drells (05.18.68)
- Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkel (06.01.68)
- This Guy’s in Love with You – Herb Alpert (06.22.68)
- Grazing in the Grass – Hugh Masekela (07.20.68)
- Hello, I Love You – The Doors (08.03.68)
- People Got To Be Free – The Rascals (08.17.68)
- Harper Valley P.T.A. – Jeannie C. Riley (09.21.68)
- Hey Jude – The Beatles (09.28.68)
- Love Child – Diana Ross and the Supremes (11.30.68)
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye (12.14.68)
Are you kidding me? I must have reached Old Fart status, because I’d take the 1968 list 100 times over the 2008 list. And I wasn’t even a glimmer in my parents’ eyes in 1968!
I’ve never even heard of the songs on the 2008 list with the exception of “Viva La Vida” and “I Kissed a Girl.” And no offense to Katy Perry, but I highly doubt anyone will know who she is 40 years from now.
How can anyone even begin to compare “Love in this Club” to “Hey Jude?” Or “Lollipop” to “Hello, I Love You?”
Either music is deteriorating or I’m getting old.