What Song Was #1 The Year You Were Born

What were your parents jamming out to the year you were born? What were you listening to in your favorite high school days?

Everyone has a favorite song from their childhood or high school years, but can you name the top song on the Billboard charts from the year you were born? Before scrolling down to your year, take a stab to see if you can guess correctly. This fun quiz will give you an answer that may surprise you!

The Billboard Hot 100 chart was created in 1958 and is used to track the most popular songs in the United States. Songs are ranked using radio airplay, digital downloads, streaming activity, and sales data. Every week since its inception, Billboard has published a list of the top 100 songs as well as other genre-specific weekly charts like rap, country, and Latin music.

Looking back at some of the biggest hits of yesteryear will bring back all kinds of memories for certain age groups. The number one song on the Hot 100 charts in 1980 was “Call Me” by Blondie while 1988 saw Bon Jovi’s classic “Bad Medicine” hit number one. In 2000 it was Santana featuring Rob Thomas’s “Smooth” and 2009 had The Black Eyed Peas topping the list with “Boom Boom Pow”.

But how about your birth year? What does your personal history have to offer when it comes to chart-topping songs? Let's see if you can guess which one hit wonder or timeless classic topped the US pop music charts during your first year of life!

Did you guess correctly? Did any unexpected surprises come up? Music is an amazing way to travel back in time almost like a personal time machine... Scroll down to your birth year and find the song that was #1 the year you were born or even specific years. Start listening and relive those moments through sound once more!