12 No. 12 Rock Hits for 2012
Jan 26, 2012 blog
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As 2012 gets underway, Chart Beat remembers songs that rose to No. 12 high points on Billboard surveys and, notwithstanding descending dual spots bashful of a tip 10, sojourn notable.
Last week, we removed No. 12-peaking nation hits, including T.G. Sheppard’s newness lane “Make My Day” with Clint Eastwood, Garth Brooks’ domestic anthem “We Shall Be Free” and Brad Paisley’s entrance singular “Who Needs Pictures.”
Jan. 10: 12 No. 12 RB/Hip-Hop Hits
Jan. 17: 12 No. 12 Country Hits
Jan. 24: 12 No. 12 Rock Hits
Jan. 31: 12 No. 12 Billboard Hot 100 Hits
This week is for those who are always about to rock.
Here are 12 noted No. 12 hits on Billboard’s stone charts.
“Trouble,” Lindsey Buckingham, Mainstream Rock, 1981
After Fleetwood Mac posted 12 Hot 100 tip 10s, including a No. 1 “Dreams,” between 1976 and 1981, Buckingham expelled his initial solo album, “Law and Order.” This strain featured a band’s Mick Fleetwood on drums.
“Valley Girl,” Frank Zappa, Mainstream Rock, 1982
Inducted into a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and respected with a Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, a late Zappa ribbed those who promulgate by “valspeak.” “What’s'a matter with a approach we talk? we am a val, we know,” a strain explains. “But we live, like, in a unequivocally good partial of Encino …”
“Two Hearts Beat as One,” U2, Mainstream Rock, 1983
With 49 hits on Mainstream Rock, U2 boasts a many entries among all acts, forward of runners-up Tom Petty and a Heartbreakers (48) and Van Halen (46). U2 has scored 7 No. 1s, from 1987′s “With or Without You” by 1995′s “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.”
“You Can’t Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want),” Joe Jackson, Mainstream Rock, 1984
Jackson’s 1984 hit, that followed a No. 7 Mainstream Rock and No. 6 Hot 100 strike “Steppin’ Out,” appears on his seventh album, “Body and Soul.” The set facilities Ellen Foley, best-known for singing on Meat Loaf’s 1977 stone opus “Paradise By a Dashboard Light.”
“Sittin’ On (The Dock of a Bay),” Michael Bolton, Mainstream Rock, 1988
While many cruise Bolton an adult contemporary tack – he tallied a whopping 32 hits on AC between 1987 and final year – he’s frequency a usually cocktail artist who’s done a Billboard stone chart. Others? Ace of Base, Chubby Checker, Enya, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie, UB40 and even “Weird Al” Yankovic. As recently as 2008, Katy Perry rose to No. 27 on Alternative Songs with “I Kissed a Girl.”
“Jealous Guy,” John Lennon a Plastic Ono Band, Mainstream Rock, 1988
The “Imagine: John Lennon” manuscript paved a approach for a recover of this song, initial accessible on 1971′s “Imagine,” while Lennon’s before dual Mainstream Rock hits were unison versions available in 1972 from a “Live in New York City” set: 1986′s “Come Together” (No. 25) and “Imagine” (No. 20).
“Why,” Annie Lennox, Alternative Songs, 1992
Lennox’s solo debut, “Diva,” straddled cocktail and choice audiences, with “Why” and follow-up “Walking on Broken Glass” reaching both lists. By a finish of 1992, Lennox combined a fragile “Love Song for a Vampire,” a No. 24 strike on Alternative Songs, from a Francis Ford Coppola film “Bram Stroker’s Dracula.”
“Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,” Primus, Alternative Songs, 1994
The strain (not about thespian Winona Ryder) show’s off a nonsensical side of a band, whose thesis to “South Park” – “Goin down to South Park, gonna have myself a time …” – has kicked off a array for 14 years. “Who knows what (we’ll be) doing in 20 years?” lead thespian Les Claypool says. “You never know. For all we know, I’ll be creation pancakes in 20 years. Claypool’s Waffle Factory or something.”
“Shadowboxer,” Fiona Apple, Triple A, 1997
The brooding singer, whose new manuscript is finally on a way, appearance aloft with her second single, “Sleep to Dream,” nonetheless it also missed a tip 10 (No. 11). Apple during final pennyless by to a tip 10 with “Criminal” (No. 2) and, 3 years later, “Fast As You Can” (No. 8).
“The Last DJ,” Tom Petty and a Heartbreakers, Triple A, 2002
The strain recaps a pioneering suggestion of Jim Ladd, free-form stone horde on KLOS Los Angeles from 1997 until his banishment in October. (This month outlines Ladd’s initial on new employer Sirius XM). Coincidentally, he was also featured on Roger Waters’ 1987 strain “Radio Waves,” another No. 12-peaking track.
“Come Away With Me,” Norah Jones, Triple A, 2003
Jones’ brew of blues, jazz and stone has found a biggest support during Triple A radio, where 4 of her hits have reached a summit. Her side plan a Little Willies’ “For a Good Times” dented Country Albums final week during No. 9.
“Paper Planes,” M.I.A., Alternative Songs, 2008
The strain has turn famous (and parodied by “Saturday Night Live”) for a use of gunshots in a chorus. “Gun sounds are a partial of a enlightenment as an bland thing. If you’ve been unprotected to gunfights and assault and bombs and war, afterwards we can use those sounds subsidy my thoughts, ya know?,” she said. “Look, I’ve been shot during so I’m utterly gentle with gunshot sounds. If we have a problem with it, go and speak to a people who were sharpened during me.”
