Ok….I’ve just been to my wardrobe and got out my supersize anorak. So be warned!!!
Sorry to do this, and I know it’s only a bit of fun, but you may not get the actual correct song from your date of birth when using this site.
Most will be correct but a certain percentage will give the wrong song.
Reason being is that the dates they use are those for the Sunday of the week when the record was announced at number one ( for some reason chart tradition has always recorded the number one dates in this way. )
For example…..the new chart used to be announced on a Tuesday lunchtime ( I’m sure those of a certain age will remember crowding around a little portable radio in the school playground to hear the new chart
). However a new number one announced on a Tuesday will have the date of the following Sunday as that which it became number one.
So if you were born on the Thursday it’ll give the number one from the previous week for that day!! Even when the chart started being announced on a Sunday didn’t alter this delay either!
This oddity can lead to many arguments at pop quizzes especially when it comes to Christmas number ones.
I remember being hugely disappointed at the time that the Housemartins Caravan of Love didn’t hold on to the Christmas number one spot in 1986 and I remember clearly the last chart before Christmas that year where it was pipped by Reet Petite.
However typing 25 December 1986 into this list will give you the Housemartins.
Similarly 25 December 1985 gives you Whitney Houston when it should be the great Shakin Stevens.
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