I decided not to include songs where the British artist is the feature and not the main artist, or one of the main artists. Such as: - Rihanna Ft Calvin Harris - We Found Love (even though he completely wrote and produced it) - Elton John on 'That’s What Friends Are For' & a couple of songs 21 Savage was featured on. Also i know Olivia Newton-John was born in England but she moved to Australia very young and i think considered herself Australian, but the Bee Gees were just as British as they were Australian if not more really. Same With Rupert Holmes (Pina Colada song) but America not Australia. Let me know your rankings and favourites in the comments. Cheers!
@@1ToTheInfinity Yeah i think that was part of the jokes when it was revealed he was born in England lol. Yeah it is when its dual nationalities and deciding whats more prominent etc. Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker it is. I remember being surprised that Daniel Bedingfield qualified for a British BRIT award, given he was born in New Zealand. Apparently he had to show them his British passport to be nominated.
Many today don't realise how massive a group the Beatles were, often they would be number one and replaced at number one by a different Beatles song, they virtually owned the charts in their time.
Now I realize that the Brits had a lot of bangers in the seventies. No wonder my dad listened a lot of that music in my childhood (around the nineties).
Australian here. If you're claiming the Bee Gees are from the UK (technically yes) you should have included Olivia Newton john as well, because she was born there too. "Physical" spent 10 weeks at number one, the longest of any song of the '80s.
Well i was torn, i did mention that in my pinned comment, I knew she was born here but from what i saw she really considered herself Australian it seems? She moved over as a kid i believe. Whereas the Bee Gees actually formed and started in England before moving over there, then went back and forth i think. But maybe i could have included her and put a note on the screen or something. With anything similar in the future i think ill do that. Cheers
Technically my arse the Bee Gees are 100% British after all Robin & Maurice were born on the Isle of Man and Barry in Manchester. They may have moved to Australia very young but were NOT born their
The second best decade of British music, the 80's, went right over the heads of Americans. So many great bands and solo artists: Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Primitives, OMD, Big Country, Aztec Camera, Cocteau Twins, Altered Images, KATE BUSH.
I am a huge fan of the Cocteau Twins love Liz Frazer and dreamy vibes it's better than the shit they churn out these days Cocteau Twins were a part of my childhood, Heaven or Las Vegas, Four calendar Cafe and Milk and Kisses are my favourites 😊😊😊
Interesting that Elton John had several number ones in the USA before he finally got one in the UK with that duet wit Kiki Dee and don't go breaking my heart. Incidentally, I would never have imagined Freddie and the Dreamers getting to #1 in the USA, and a bit surprised to see Herman and the Hermits got there a few times too.
When it got to less than four minutes left and we were still in the 80s, I thought the other three decades must be pretty short and I was right. No wonder so much fuss was made about the Spice Girls, Leona Lewis & Adele having US success. You can sum most of the 2010 ones up as either Adele, Ed Sheeran or One Direction.
Yeah there really was a big shift after the 80s wasnt there! I think these last years have been the most successful for Brits in america since then really, even if it isnt number ones but overall streaming etc. The 3 you mentioned but also Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith and a few others. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker I think part of the recent success can be explained by streaming and global release days. There is much less differentiation between markets now. The 60s & 80s British Invasions of the US were quite the opposite; the Brits were doing something new and cool that US acts weren't doing yet, whether it was the Merseybeat sound of the Beatles and other bands, or the New Romantics in the early 80s. On the other hand, the gaps come mostly from when the US wasn't that interested in what the British were doing, whether it was glam rock in the early 70s, rave culture in the early 90s or Britpop in the mid 90s. Growing up in the UK in the 90s myself, we didn't have that many hits from US artists either. Both sides were all about their homegrown talent.
@@gnu_andrew Yeah streaming is a huge part of that now but its good that british artists are still some of the absolute biggest. We wont get another era like the 60s or 80s unfortunately. I noticed that with my 2000s UK number 1s video, i actually think we could have done with more American number 1s there were some awful songs lol. Cheers
@@RJS1974 I'm glad you said that. I agree. She's been lucky enough to have some decent songs on her albums 'but they're not that good.' She's not as good as someone like Alison Moyet who actually has a voice. But I also feel the same about Ed Sheerin who's good but not as good as he's made out to be.
@@paulhagen5645 they're all pretty bland, but the US tends to like bland. All the Adele and Ed Sheeran songs in this video are basically indistinguishable from each other. One trick ponies.
being born in 1958 with two older siblings the Beatles, stones and many many 60's music was what I grew up listening to daily. My elder sister worked in a record shop through the 60's so used to bring home a large number of records as part of her pay. I loved my own music from the 70's era mostly the heavy rock music but also lighter rock and even rock sounding. I also loved the Motown sounds of the 60's and was able to compile a collection sought from pawn shops in the area of London I grew up in, or from Wales where my grand parents resided.
By my count, there were 20 by the Beatles, plus another 16 from solo careers, plus two written by Beatles and recorded by someone else (World Without Love; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Some of these do have dual nationalities, some said i could have included Olivia Newton-John but i think she considered herself Australian really. Cheers
The jump from 1997 to 2006 is really fascinating. I was young back then but most of the radio/pop music I remember from the 90s was various girl/boy bands, EDM, Britpop and R&B. That none of it made waves across the Atlantic to chart #1 is kinda surprising considering how dominate UK artists were before the turn of the millenium.
I think its cause while we had those, the US had their own boybands and rap was starting to become really big, basically that was the main period were both sides of the pond were doing their own thing really, to a degree. Thanks for watching
Elton John features on What Ever Gets You Thru The Night by John Lennon and John Lennon under the pseudonym Winston O' Boogie is on Elton John's version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
I remember hearing it all the time that summer , was played alot. Always hovered around 1, was there not long.1 week. What I don't get, or remember holding back the tears , I remember the song. All the 80s were great.
Wow, they loved George and Phil stateside. Would be a short video without them and the Fab 4, Stones and Gibb brothers. Couple of surprises for me, like only one Queen entry and I never knew John Waite and John Parr were British. And a 9 year gap between 1997 and 2006!! What happened?
Very true, and the Gibb brothers in the 70s too. I actually have a video on 80 big songs people didnt know were by Brits, if you want to check that out. Yeah i think in those years UK music was very much dance music and then our own boybands/girlbands. In the US it was their boybands/girlbands and rap. Cheers
This may or may not be completely accurate, but I heard it was written as a joke. He kept coming to Beatles sessions with songs, and eventually, one of the others said something to the effect of "another silly love song?" So he wrote it so as to say that there's nothing wrong with another silly love song.
The very FIRST British artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 was Laurie London with You Got The Whole World In Your Hands way back in 1958 if not mistaken.
Odd how Nielsen Soundscan was so detrimental to british acts. And the shift to streaming data didnt help a lot either despite being very kind to some international acts.
The jump from 'Candle in the Wind' in 1997 to 'You're Beautiful' in 2006 was jarring. I guess that was the era of Steps and S-Club 7. Yeah, I can see why nothing topped the US charts then...
Yeah, definitely different boybands and girlbands on either side of the pond. Then in the UK dance music was getting big while in the US rap was getting even bigger too. Cheerd
I noticed a big 9 year gap Between Elton John Candle in the wind to James Blunt where there no British number 1s in the American charts. That is a hell of a long time for no British number 1 singles on the American charts considering what went on before. Also in 1990s there were far fewer British number 1s than what went before. Britpop movement did not interest American listeners. Americans since were listening more to their own and Australian artists. There were quite a few number 1s from Australian artists in the 1990s. A sign that Americans gravitating towards Australians more in their musical tastes in the 1990s. Also since 1990s it has been lean period I would say for British music in America compared to what went before. But I remember a lot of good stuff was in the 1990s by British artists and they deserved more number 1s in America in that decade.
Yeah i was expecting there to be less from the 90s but not no number ones for practically a decade! But actually when i did my UK chart number 1s in the 2000s you can see that we were listening to pretty different things at that time for some reason lol and in the late 90s the UK had their own boybands and girlbands too so that might be part of it. Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker the US never did Britpop or dance music. I think that sums up most of the difference. It would be interesting to do it the other way and see if American artists at #1 in the UK slumps in the same way. I know we didn't care for Mariah Carey as much as Billboard did. I'd expect most of the 90s UK #1s by US artists to be Madonna or MJ (and even that's not many)
That was shocking - I thought I dozed off and missed the 00s. (That coincided with when I stopped liking pop music anyway.) I was also surprised that Wonderwall was not a No. 1. I played that and Creep (TLC not Radiohead) until the tape literally broke.
@@moondoggy02116 "Wonderwall" in the US or the UK? Blame Robson & Jerome for it failing to get to #1 in the UK. Same story as for Pulp's "Common People" in the same year.
Thank you. It's a little strange to see some phenomena considered great to be absent ( Unholy Trinity? Punks? Raves? Britpop? Big Beat? IDM? Where are they all?) , some diminished (Art Rock? Glam Rock? New vawe? Electro pop?), but we all know how strange it is to trust these charts as "objective information", and how top hits can diverge from mass trends.
Thats true, chart success and overall quality dont always go hand in hand lol you can see that in my 80s UK number 1s video when you then think about all the great 80s songs...im not just saying that as a shameless plug either lol. Cheers
Yeah i mentioned that in my pinned comment, i could have really included her in the end but from what i saw she really did consider herself Australian, but maybe that wasnt accurate. Bee Gees definitely considered themselves both. Cheers
Here's my Top 30: 30 Don't you want me 29 Kiss from a rose 28 Baby come back 27 Beautiful 26 Thinking about you 25 Human 24 How deep is your love 23 Stayin Alive 22 Come together 21 Brown sugar 20 Yesterday 19 Let it be 18 Paint it black 17 Holding back the years 16 Father figure 15 Careless whisper 14 Dreams 13 Jive talkin 12 Band on the run 11 Blinded by the light 10 Angie 9 Don't you forget about me 8 Do ya think I'm sexy 7 Tonight's the night 6 Another brick in the wall 5 Ruby Tuesday 4 Every breath you take 3 Shout 2 Maggie May 1 House of the rising sun
The one that threw me was Player ("Baby Come Back"), as they were an L.A.-based band. But I looked them up, and they had a Liverpudlian as one of their four members. So I guess they count. I was going to note that you missed Gilbert O'Sullivan, but after looking him up, I found out he was Irish rather than British or Scottish or Welsh.
Actually i probably made a mistake there, I saw that they were British-American but yeah as you said just one member was English, he was the lead though i guess, still probably not enough for them to count really. Yeah i would get a lot of comments here if i included the Irish as Brits lol its awkward with what to class Northern Irish artists as too. They aren't British, they are part of the UK...but they aren't Irish as in from the Republic Of Ireland lol. Thanks for watching
Yeah true, i was aware they didnt really break america like that though. Even if their albums did pretty well, especially What's The Story, Morning Glory? Wonderwall is massive in America even if it never got close to number 1 at the time. Cheers
No Who, no Kinks, no Cream, no Slade, no Sweet, no T Rex, no Cure, no Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers! Ain't much that's got over the pond if u cut Beatles, the Solo Beatles, Stones and the BeeGees out. Wasn't aware, that George Michael was so big in America. Interesting❤
Yeah its also interesting some of the big british artists who didnt even have as many number 1s on the UK charts as you would expect too! I guess it really doesnt prove overall popularity and longevity. Cheers
The Brits were still incredibly successful. Having a #2 hit is nothing to sneeze at. Or a top ten hit. And they had lots of them. It was difficult for British acts to get to the top of the charts In the 60’s, with the Beatles and the Supremes alone, accounting for something like thirty number ones. Also, some were on top for weeks: Hey Jude = nine weeks.
Oh yeah, at one point there is nearly a decade where no British artist got a number one in America. Really the 60s and 80s made up the majority! Thanks for watching
There are 2 things that I don't understand and they catch my attention. 1. I feel that in the USA they were very behind, how could it be that in the 70s there were so many number 1s by Ex Beatles? In the UK practically none of those were number 1, perhaps only My Sweet Lord. 2. Phil Collins' success in the USA is incredible, much greater than in the UK, something similar to the case of Elton John (who only had 3 songs in the top 3 in the UK between the 70s and 80s, but in this new century he made 7 collaborations and they were number 1, which in my opinion, stains their legacy, since they are songs that no one really knows and they only lasted 1 week at number 1 and in the top 10)
I'm Canadian and some songs don't have the same success here as they do in the U.S. or U.K. and vice versa - I don't understand why you find that concept so hard to grasp ?
The momentum from The Beatles success and size probably carried into their solo work over there a bit more perhaps, thats my best guess anyway. Yeah doing these videos im always very surprised by the fact that both Elton John & Queen didnt have the singles chart success (or at least number ones) you would think given the size they are as artists overall! On both sides of the pond too really. Cheers
Elton John famously didn't get a solo UK #1 until "Sacrifice/Healing Hands" in 1990. I guess his style fitted the US more in the early 70s, whereas over here in the UK it was all glam rock (six number ones for Slade, for example, who didn't do anything much Stateside in the 70s) I see the same in the late 80s. The US is loving George Michael & Phil Collins ballads, while the UK is into Kylie & Jason and early dance music. I think this video also makes the solo Beatles songs stand out because they dominated the British acts appearing in the US charts; most of the 70s British acts weren't crossing over.
@@gnu_andrew The most curious thing about Elton's case is that he never had a solo number 1 song on his first release. Since initially "Sacrifice" was a flop, the same for "Are You Ready For Love", and "Candle In The Wind" reached number 1 after having been #11 in the 70s and reaching the top 10 in the 80s with a live version.
Yeah it didnt think it did in the UK either at the time actually but did a decade later after he died, you would think it would have in America too really. Thanks for watching
Yeah she probably should have counted as a dual nationality in the end too, just seemed like she really considered herself Australian from what i saw. Cheers
Yeah, seems like both sides of the pond really stuck to their own in that period, especially with boybands and girlbands as well as dance music being so prominent in the UK too. Cheers
Yeah i would agree actually, 60s had great stuff too of course but may not have been high on the charts. Especially when they didnt have a chance with The Beatles dominating so much lol. Thanks for watching
Yep wasnt a single number 1 by Brits in that time, if you check out my 2000s UK number 1's video it seems we were quite different in what we were listening to on either side of the pond in those years lol. Cheers
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I decided not to include songs where the British artist is the feature and not the main artist, or one of the main artists. Such as:
- Rihanna Ft Calvin Harris - We Found Love (even though he completely wrote and produced it)
- Elton John on 'That’s What Friends Are For' & a couple of songs 21 Savage was featured on.
Also i know Olivia Newton-John was born in England but she moved to Australia very young and i think considered herself Australian, but the Bee Gees were just as British as they were Australian if not more really. Same With Rupert Holmes (Pina Colada song) but America not Australia. Let me know your rankings and favourites in the comments. Cheers!
21 Savage moved to the USA very young, I think he considers himself American too, nationalities are tricky though
@@1ToTheInfinity Yeah i think that was part of the jokes when it was revealed he was born in England lol. Yeah it is when its dual nationalities and deciding whats more prominent etc. Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker it is. I remember being surprised that Daniel Bedingfield qualified for a British BRIT award, given he was born in New Zealand. Apparently he had to show them his British passport to be nominated.
Very disappointing file
No Footloose, no Like a virgin, etc
@@realandreellover690 probably because Kenny Loggins & Madonna are American, not British...
Many today don't realise how massive a group the Beatles were, often they would be number one and replaced at number one by a different Beatles song, they virtually owned the charts in their time.
The British Invasions of the 60s and 80s really shows.
It could explain why so many people say their favorite music is from the 60’s and the 80’s.
And the Adele invasion
Now I realize that the Brits had a lot of bangers in the seventies. No wonder my dad listened a lot of that music in my childhood (around the nineties).
George Harrison being the first Beatle to get a number 1 is amazing
All things must pass is the best post-beatle album by any of them. It's brilliant.
And last too.
i was shocked that Queen only had 2 and just as shocked Fleetwood Mac only had ONE
Two before The Beatles, and when another non Beatles song finally pops up, it’s a song that was written by Paul McCartney .
Which was then followed by another Beatles song!
Australian here. If you're claiming the Bee Gees are from the UK (technically yes) you should have included Olivia Newton john as well, because she was born there too. "Physical" spent 10 weeks at number one, the longest of any song of the '80s.
Well i was torn, i did mention that in my pinned comment, I knew she was born here but from what i saw she really considered herself Australian it seems? She moved over as a kid i believe. Whereas the Bee Gees actually formed and started in England before moving over there, then went back and forth i think. But maybe i could have included her and put a note on the screen or something. With anything similar in the future i think ill do that. Cheers
ONJ was both British and Australian.
Technically my arse the Bee Gees are 100% British after all Robin & Maurice were born on the Isle of Man and Barry in Manchester.
They may have moved to Australia very young but were NOT born their
ONJ was born in Cambridge so also 100% British
Yeah in the end i could have included Olivia Newton-John in this really. Cheers
The second best decade of British music, the 80's, went right over the heads of Americans. So many great bands and solo artists: Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Primitives, OMD, Big Country, Aztec Camera, Cocteau Twins, Altered Images, KATE BUSH.
The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen
I am a huge fan of the Cocteau Twins love Liz Frazer and dreamy vibes it's better than the shit they churn out these days Cocteau Twins were a part of my childhood, Heaven or Las Vegas, Four calendar Cafe and Milk and Kisses are my favourites 😊😊😊
Oh and I love pearly dew drops drop
@@Tinkerbella89 100% too right about "the shit they churn out these days"
Shit 80's!!!
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Amazing how the charts are dominated by just a handful of British bands
Yeah especially in the 60s and 80s, still quite a few that people wouldnt have known were british though. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker Plenty Brits didn't know Def Leppard & Whitesnake were Brits, too :)
@@dasnutnock6408 They are actually both in my '80 huge songs people didnt know were by British artists video'...shameless plug i know lol. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker I’ll take a look - great channel, by the way 👍
@@dasnutnock6408 Thanks!
Greatest music ever, 1964-77.
Saw Paul and Linda live May 76
It was great 👍
Wings were merde.
Im glad they included Fleetwood mac
Makes sense, 90's and 00's UK went through Britpop and EDM (from europop to big room) which wasn;t popular in the the US at that time.
Interesting that Elton John had several number ones in the USA before he finally got one in the UK with that duet wit Kiki Dee and don't go breaking my heart.
Incidentally, I would never have imagined Freddie and the Dreamers getting to #1 in the USA, and a bit surprised to see Herman and the Hermits got there a few times too.
Hmm, so many artists I had no idea were British. Thanks for the nostalgia and the education.
Thanks for watching! Check out my video '80 Huge Songs People Didn't Know Were By British Artists' too, might be a few more surprises there. Cheers
When it got to less than four minutes left and we were still in the 80s, I thought the other three decades must be pretty short and I was right.
No wonder so much fuss was made about the Spice Girls, Leona Lewis & Adele having US success. You can sum most of the 2010 ones up as either Adele, Ed Sheeran or One Direction.
Yeah there really was a big shift after the 80s wasnt there! I think these last years have been the most successful for Brits in america since then really, even if it isnt number ones but overall streaming etc. The 3 you mentioned but also Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa, Sam Smith and a few others. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker I think part of the recent success can be explained by streaming and global release days. There is much less differentiation between markets now. The 60s & 80s British Invasions of the US were quite the opposite; the Brits were doing something new and cool that US acts weren't doing yet, whether it was the Merseybeat sound of the Beatles and other bands, or the New Romantics in the early 80s. On the other hand, the gaps come mostly from when the US wasn't that interested in what the British were doing, whether it was glam rock in the early 70s, rave culture in the early 90s or Britpop in the mid 90s. Growing up in the UK in the 90s myself, we didn't have that many hits from US artists either. Both sides were all about their homegrown talent.
@@gnu_andrew Yeah streaming is a huge part of that now but its good that british artists are still some of the absolute biggest. We wont get another era like the 60s or 80s unfortunately. I noticed that with my 2000s UK number 1s video, i actually think we could have done with more American number 1s there were some awful songs lol. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker lol I'd definitely swap some of the X Factor and Pop Idol ones, that's for sure! Thanks for an interesting video.
Thanks for this great compilation
Thanks for watching
I had no idea that Paul Mcartney had so many solo hits over there.
I was surprised too, especially that 'Maybe I'm Amazed' wasnt one of the numbers 1's as well. Cheers
Adele is overrated. It’s like she’s yelling at you when she sings. Not a fan.
@@RJS1974 You definitely wont have liked that Lewis Capaldi song then lol. Cheers
@@RJS1974 I'm glad you said that. I agree. She's been lucky enough to have some decent songs on her albums 'but they're not that good.' She's not as good as someone like Alison Moyet who actually has a voice. But I also feel the same about Ed Sheerin who's good but not as good as he's made out to be.
@@paulhagen5645 they're all pretty bland, but the US tends to like bland. All the Adele and Ed Sheeran songs in this video are basically indistinguishable from each other. One trick ponies.
being born in 1958 with two older siblings the Beatles, stones and many many 60's music was what I grew up listening to daily. My elder sister worked in a record shop through the 60's so used to bring home a large number of records as part of her pay. I loved my own music from the 70's era mostly the heavy rock music but also lighter rock and even rock sounding. I also loved the Motown sounds of the 60's and was able to compile a collection sought from pawn shops in the area of London I grew up in, or from Wales where my grand parents resided.
This is such a terrific video! Thank you for taking the time. Loved this so much
Appreciate it thanks for watching!
Prove that The Beatles Were F'ckin Massive
and them solo
By my count, there were 20 by the Beatles, plus another 16 from solo careers, plus two written by Beatles and recorded by someone else (World Without Love; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Prove it? Lol. Read about them, you'll have your proof
@@Mark-d2w3b the comment ment this video was the prove
@@ricardo_miguel13 Ahh, I see, ok. The proof. :)
the 60s and 80s were really intense
This video had a lot of data. Honestly, a very solid video. Best video. I watched today.
Appreciate it thanks!
Although Carl Douglas was raised in the UK,he’s actually from Kingston,Jamaica.
Some of these do have dual nationalities, some said i could have included Olivia Newton-John but i think she considered herself Australian really. Cheers
What a gap beetween 1997 and 2006 ! Unbelievable !
It's all the fault of Tony Blair :D
British and American tastes massively diverged - UK was Britpop, Dance, Electronic and UK Reality show pop; US R&B and Hip-hop and US reality show pop
WOW... 9 years between "Candle In The Wind" and "You're Beautiful" with no British #1s
Yeah, pop music on either side of the pond was sort of its own thing around that time i think! Cheers
British pop was dreadful at that time, a whole world away from the inventiveness of the second invasion
9 year drought of number ones between Candle In The Wind and You're Beautiful 97 -06
Yeah, it seems we were doing our own thing on either side of the pond in that time lol. Thanks for watching
Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, John Lennon beherrschen die Charts.
❤️❤️❤️
The jump from 1997 to 2006 is really fascinating. I was young back then but most of the radio/pop music I remember from the 90s was various girl/boy bands, EDM, Britpop and R&B. That none of it made waves across the Atlantic to chart #1 is kinda surprising considering how dominate UK artists were before the turn of the millenium.
I think its cause while we had those, the US had their own boybands and rap was starting to become really big, basically that was the main period were both sides of the pond were doing their own thing really, to a degree. Thanks for watching
Elton John features on What Ever Gets You Thru The Night by John Lennon and John Lennon under the pseudonym Winston O' Boogie is on Elton John's version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
9:06: Air Supply is Aussie!
They are a duo, one english and one Australian so they are as much british as Australian. Cheers
And, yet, you failed to include ONJ???
A travesty!!!
They were formed in Australia, not Britain.
Great video thanks!
14:00 that song was number 1 for 2 weeks
Billy Ocean? yeah youre right thats my bad
Great list, especially the early stuff. Had to pause a few times to update my Spotify playlist. Well done, now a subscriber 😊
Thanks for watching! If you want to add anymore to it i could have probably included Olivia Newton-John's Billboard number 1's too really. Cheers
Some of you may not know that DJ John Peel featured on the song Maggie May
I thought he just appeared on top of the pops with them once, but not the actual recording?
i did
Had no idea West End Girls made it to #1 in the states.
I remember hearing it all the time that summer , was played alot. Always hovered around 1, was there not long.1 week. What I don't get, or remember holding back the tears , I remember the song. All the 80s were great.
While there were The Beatles, there was not much space available.
Wow, they loved George and Phil stateside. Would be a short video without them and the Fab 4, Stones and Gibb brothers. Couple of surprises for me, like only one Queen entry and I never knew John Waite and John Parr were British. And a 9 year gap between 1997 and 2006!! What happened?
Very true, and the Gibb brothers in the 70s too. I actually have a video on 80 big songs people didnt know were by Brits, if you want to check that out. Yeah i think in those years UK music was very much dance music and then our own boybands/girlbands. In the US it was their boybands/girlbands and rap. Cheers
2 Queen entry
Always amazing, how successful this ,,Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney has been !!
Yeah i honestly find it pretty terrible lol especially when songs like 'Maybe I'm Amazed' weren't nearly as successful overall. Thanks for watching
This may or may not be completely accurate, but I heard it was written as a joke. He kept coming to Beatles sessions with songs, and eventually, one of the others said something to the effect of "another silly love song?" So he wrote it so as to say that there's nothing wrong with another silly love song.
@@logangreer001 Thank you very much for the detailed Answer !
Everybody get NOW why the Beatles & the Stones are considered the greatest?
If you leave out Pink Floyd....unbelievable they only got one mention here
@@sunilphalakdhari3869 Cause they only had one #1 song. As great as they were, they weren't really a "top 40" kind of band.
@@lynnturman8157 The Beatles are one of my favorite bands, didn't know they had that many #1 songs though 😅
A+ video!
Awesome songs!
Thanks! Top 100 Most Streamed Songs By British artists coming soon, hopefully this evening
The very FIRST British artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 was Laurie London with You Got The Whole World In Your Hands way back in 1958 if not mistaken.
Im not sure i didnt see that come up, i dont know if what i was looking at only when back to 1960 perhaps? Cheers
Odd how Nielsen Soundscan was so detrimental to british acts. And the shift to streaming data didnt help a lot either despite being very kind to some international acts.
Holy shit the beatles had a lot of bangers
The jump from 'Candle in the Wind' in 1997 to 'You're Beautiful' in 2006 was jarring. I guess that was the era of Steps and S-Club 7. Yeah, I can see why nothing topped the US charts then...
Yeah, definitely different boybands and girlbands on either side of the pond. Then in the UK dance music was getting big while in the US rap was getting even bigger too. Cheerd
Paul McCartney...
Best songwriter ever.
No he's not .
I noticed a big 9 year gap Between Elton John Candle in the wind to James Blunt where there no British number 1s in the American charts. That is a hell of a long time for no British number 1 singles on the American charts considering what went on before. Also in 1990s there were far fewer British number 1s than what went before. Britpop movement did not interest American listeners. Americans since were listening more to their own and Australian artists. There were quite a few number 1s from Australian artists in the 1990s. A sign that Americans gravitating towards Australians more in their musical tastes in the 1990s. Also since 1990s it has been lean period I would say for British music in America compared to what went before. But I remember a lot of good stuff was in the 1990s by British artists and they deserved more number 1s in America in that decade.
I find it interesting there was a break in 1972 and 1996 and a huge gap between 1997 and 2006
Yeah i was expecting there to be less from the 90s but not no number ones for practically a decade! But actually when i did my UK chart number 1s in the 2000s you can see that we were listening to pretty different things at that time for some reason lol and in the late 90s the UK had their own boybands and girlbands too so that might be part of it. Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker the US never did Britpop or dance music. I think that sums up most of the difference. It would be interesting to do it the other way and see if American artists at #1 in the UK slumps in the same way. I know we didn't care for Mariah Carey as much as Billboard did. I'd expect most of the 90s UK #1s by US artists to be Madonna or MJ (and even that's not many)
That was shocking - I thought I dozed off and missed the 00s. (That coincided with when I stopped liking pop music anyway.) I was also surprised that Wonderwall was not a No. 1. I played that and Creep (TLC not Radiohead) until the tape literally broke.
@@moondoggy02116 "Wonderwall" in the US or the UK? Blame Robson & Jerome for it failing to get to #1 in the UK. Same story as for Pulp's "Common People" in the same year.
Thank you. It's a little strange to see some phenomena considered great to be absent ( Unholy Trinity? Punks? Raves? Britpop? Big Beat? IDM? Where are they all?) , some diminished (Art Rock? Glam Rock? New vawe? Electro pop?), but we all know how strange it is to trust these charts as "objective information", and how top hits can diverge from mass trends.
Thats true, chart success and overall quality dont always go hand in hand lol you can see that in my 80s UK number 1s video when you then think about all the great 80s songs...im not just saying that as a shameless plug either lol. Cheers
I did not realise that Macca had so many hits in the USA in the 70s and 80's
Andy Gibb is one of the Gibb brothers?
Yeah the youngest, he was never part of the Bee Gees. Sadly died very young i believe. Cheers
Hah, we're getting rickrolled, how sneaky! 😁
Haha i take no responsibility...rickrolled twice too technically. Thanks for watching
Brits dominated the 60's
Where's OLIVIA???
Born in Cambridge, and made her fame in England in the late 60s/early 70s.
Looks like you need a re-edit!!!
Yeah i mentioned that in my pinned comment, i could have really included her in the end but from what i saw she really did consider herself Australian, but maybe that wasnt accurate. Bee Gees definitely considered themselves both. Cheers
Here's my Top 30:
30 Don't you want me
29 Kiss from a rose
28 Baby come back
27 Beautiful
26 Thinking about you
25 Human
24 How deep is your love
23 Stayin Alive
22 Come together
21 Brown sugar
20 Yesterday
19 Let it be
18 Paint it black
17 Holding back the years
16 Father figure
15 Careless whisper
14 Dreams
13 Jive talkin
12 Band on the run
11 Blinded by the light
10 Angie
9 Don't you forget about me
8 Do ya think I'm sexy
7 Tonight's the night
6 Another brick in the wall
5 Ruby Tuesday
4 Every breath you take
3 Shout
2 Maggie May
1 House of the rising sun
Great list again, if theres one thing Brits can do its pop music isnt it! Cheers
At least there were some Queen songs. I was waiting for "Bohemian Rhapsody" because that hit UK billboards at #1 twice. Once in 1975 and again in 1991
You could almost pinpoint when music actually change to "pulped music". I would say 90's onwards after the 80's even George Michael was over produced.
The one that threw me was Player ("Baby Come Back"), as they were an L.A.-based band. But I looked them up, and they had a Liverpudlian as one of their four members. So I guess they count.
I was going to note that you missed Gilbert O'Sullivan, but after looking him up, I found out he was Irish rather than British or Scottish or Welsh.
Actually i probably made a mistake there, I saw that they were British-American but yeah as you said just one member was English, he was the lead though i guess, still probably not enough for them to count really. Yeah i would get a lot of comments here if i included the Irish as Brits lol its awkward with what to class Northern Irish artists as too. They aren't British, they are part of the UK...but they aren't Irish as in from the Republic Of Ireland lol. Thanks for watching
El contenido no está completo, llevo 30 segundo y ya tiene errores: dónde está "Glad All Over" de The Dave Clark Five?
That never went to number 1 in the US, this is US Billboard number 1 songs by British artists, not the British chart. Thanks
adele with rolling in the deep, someone like you, set fire to the rain, hello, easy on me
C'est là que l'on voit vraiment que la bonne pop-rock british s'est arrêtée au début des années 90...
It will take me a while to put my list together this time - lol
Haha no worries, personally the mid 80s was very strong here for me!
@@Media_Ranker For me it will be the older stuff
You should make a video for no 1 albums by British acts too, maybe that way Led Zeppelin might get some representation!
Yeah i definitely need to start doing some album videos actually and that could be the first one. Cheers
fleetwood mac one single at#1 i say 4 lps?
My Elton ruled the 70's.
ONJ lived longer in England than Andy Gibb, who moved to Australia when he was a toddler.
Many from the 1960s to the 1980s
After the 1990s, there were fewer and fewer
And the last 5 years pretty much nowt 😂
Notice how half of the 60s songs are the Beatles 😌
The one artist missing from the list is Oasis. Amazing hits but most of their songs did not do well in the US.
Yeah true, i was aware they didnt really break america like that though. Even if their albums did pretty well, especially What's The Story, Morning Glory? Wonderwall is massive in America even if it never got close to number 1 at the time. Cheers
you can say that about Queen 2#ones in USA
@@Media_Rankerdidn’t wonderwall hit #4?
Bloody George Michael, Bee Gees and Phil Collins had so many hits over there.
thr uk is the reason popular music became what it is now
Interesting is the gab between 1997 and 2006...
5:20 great sample by EPMD in rap music
So the Beatles spent the 60's at the top of the American charts.
I thought that guy/band of the kung fu fighting song was/were American(s)
Pretty much and nope, Carl Douglas is Jamaican-British. Cheers
12:45
Sorry, Invisible Touch...
I knew this song in a sunday night TV show.
Greetings from Brazil.
The Beatles: 20 Songs.
Crazy domination across only 6/7 years wasnt it! Thanks for watching
solo 16 songs! Plus Lucy In The Sky by Elton John, a Paul written song (World Without Love) and a John cowritten song (Fame)
wow rod stewart maggie may was that John peel?
George Harrison the first Beatle that gdot number 1? Wow
He got in there early lol a great song though too! Cheers
And the Beatles again
I forgot Oasis weren’t on here that’s outrageous
They never did crack america really, well i think the albums did well. Saw a clip (i think recent) of Noel talking about that actually. Cheers
Surprised U2 never had a No 1 over there
Here to see George Michael and Wham!
No Who, no Kinks, no Cream, no Slade, no Sweet, no T Rex, no Cure, no Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, Pulp, Manic Street Preachers! Ain't much that's got over the pond if u cut Beatles, the Solo Beatles, Stones and the BeeGees out. Wasn't aware, that George Michael was so big in America. Interesting❤
Yeah its also interesting some of the big british artists who didnt even have as many number 1s on the UK charts as you would expect too! I guess it really doesnt prove overall popularity and longevity. Cheers
The Brits were still incredibly successful. Having a #2 hit is nothing to sneeze at. Or a top ten hit. And they had lots of them. It was difficult for British acts to get to the top of the charts
In the 60’s, with the Beatles and the Supremes alone, accounting for something like thirty number ones. Also, some were on top for weeks: Hey Jude = nine weeks.
BritPop never transferred over to the USA.
George Michael y Andy Gibs ❤❤❤❤
13:56 I knew this was just a rick roll.....😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
In fairness for this one i did put him in the thumbnail lol. Thanks for watching
@@Media_Ranker hadn't noticed. I just wanted a funny comment on your fun vid.🥰
@@MrImmers No worries lol personally i still havent heard that too much yet, its still a great pop song in the end isnt it. Thanks for watching
Ma mancano delle settimane a volte interi mesi in questa lista di primo posti, o sbaglio?
Oh yeah, at one point there is nearly a decade where no British artist got a number one in America. Really the 60s and 80s made up the majority! Thanks for watching
You may have missed "Dreams". Fleetwood Mac was 3/5 British
Its there, just after Leo Sayer. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker well what the hell, I even went back and looked for it. My bad!
No worries lol there are nearly 200 songs here! Thanks for watching
There are 2 things that I don't understand and they catch my attention.
1. I feel that in the USA they were very behind, how could it be that in the 70s there were so many number 1s by Ex Beatles? In the UK practically none of those were number 1, perhaps only My Sweet Lord.
2. Phil Collins' success in the USA is incredible, much greater than in the UK, something similar to the case of Elton John (who only had 3 songs in the top 3 in the UK between the 70s and 80s, but in this new century he made 7 collaborations and they were number 1, which in my opinion, stains their legacy, since they are songs that no one really knows and they only lasted 1 week at number 1 and in the top 10)
I'm Canadian and some songs don't have the same success here as they do in the U.S. or U.K. and vice versa - I don't understand why you find that concept so hard to grasp ?
The momentum from The Beatles success and size probably carried into their solo work over there a bit more perhaps, thats my best guess anyway. Yeah doing these videos im always very surprised by the fact that both Elton John & Queen didnt have the singles chart success (or at least number ones) you would think given the size they are as artists overall! On both sides of the pond too really. Cheers
Elton John famously didn't get a solo UK #1 until "Sacrifice/Healing Hands" in 1990. I guess his style fitted the US more in the early 70s, whereas over here in the UK it was all glam rock (six number ones for Slade, for example, who didn't do anything much Stateside in the 70s)
I see the same in the late 80s. The US is loving George Michael & Phil Collins ballads, while the UK is into Kylie & Jason and early dance music.
I think this video also makes the solo Beatles songs stand out because they dominated the British acts appearing in the US charts; most of the 70s British acts weren't crossing over.
@@gnu_andrew The most curious thing about Elton's case is that he never had a solo number 1 song on his first release. Since initially "Sacrifice" was a flop, the same for "Are You Ready For Love", and "Candle In The Wind" reached number 1 after having been #11 in the 70s and reaching the top 10 in the 80s with a live version.
The Beatles did best on the U.S. charts. And the Americans liked the solo Beatles, too especially Paul.
1:25 EMINEM Sample
Didnt know that Eminem song, just listened to it, cant believe he sampled that but it works! lol. Cheers
Ringo Starr had more solo no 1s than Lennon..?
Billy Ocean was British? Wow
Trinidadian-British but yeah i think a lot of people just assumed he was American. Cheers
@@Media_Ranker I always thought he was from some Carribean island.
Rick Astley's the boss.
Dire Straits, Phil Collins, Bill Idol
From almost all i knew they are/were British but Def Leppard, Tom Jones, Carl Douglas, Rick Astley and Bee Gees, ( i thought australian)
Beatles sixteen number one's?? Unbelievable
Across only 6 or 7 years i think it was too, i knew it would be a lot but crazy really! Thanks for watching
Actually, they had 20 #1s in the USA.
Did Bohemian Rhapsody just disappear?
Never went to number 1 in America believe it or not. Cheers
@@Media_RankerIt got to #9 in 1976 and #2 in 1992.
@@tcn1961 In 1992 that was just after Freddie died right? And then Wayne's World at basically the same time? Cheers
@@Media_Ranker Exactly. Queen had quite the USA revival around that time.
so apparently paul has 32 #1 hits, this is crazy
Something like that yeah if you add The Beatles, his solo and duets together. That is insane isnt it lol. Cheers
Really surprised John Lennon's Imagine didn't reach No 1
Yeah it didnt think it did in the UK either at the time actually but did a decade later after he died, you would think it would have in America too really. Thanks for watching
Olivia Newton John
Yeah she probably should have counted as a dual nationality in the end too, just seemed like she really considered herself Australian from what i saw. Cheers
I had no idea The Bay City Rollers were from the UK.
Yeah, Scotland specifically but obviously doing a very american style! Cheers
That's a huge gap between 1997 and 2006, interesting.
Yeah, seems like both sides of the pond really stuck to their own in that period, especially with boybands and girlbands as well as dance music being so prominent in the UK too. Cheers
That was the thing I noticed too... such a gap!
Where is you”ll never walk alone number 1 in 1963 I think
Gerry & The Pacemakers? I cant see that it went to number 1 in the US? Cheers
i was so young
music got better when it entered the 70's
Yeah i would agree actually, 60s had great stuff too of course but may not have been high on the charts. Especially when they didnt have a chance with The Beatles dominating so much lol. Thanks for watching
What happened between 1998 and 2005? No British songs listed?? 🤔
Yep wasnt a single number 1 by Brits in that time, if you check out my 2000s UK number 1's video it seems we were quite different in what we were listening to on either side of the pond in those years lol. Cheers
Probably Americans keeping it for themselves 😂@@Media_Ranker