If you were alive and sentient in 1969, you couldn’t have missed the song “In the Year 2525,” which spent six weeks on Billboard’s Top-100 chart, ultimately selling more than five million copies.
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. On July 20, 1969 ...