I’m away on vacation this week, so I’ve queued this post up early. At the time of writing, EclecticMusicLover had the only perfect score in last week’s quiz.
This week it’s another in the same series, identifying artists by their first number one Billboard hit.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/ghcgh/artist-by-first-1-hit-vi
There were more artists of interest to me this week, so I scored 25/25.
I always like seeing other peoples’ end-of-year stats, so here are mine:
2022 is a little lower than 2021 but largely because of a traffic boom in March and April 2021, where Google featured my Worst Songs of the 1970s and 1980s lists. The last three months of this year have been strong – December 2022 is around 20% higher than December 2021.
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A little more knowledge & a few better guesses than last week got me to 22/25. I hope you’re enjoying your vacation.
22 is a good effort. We came back from a big hike yesterday.
ME here. 15/25. Again, never heard of half these songs. Am I missing anything? Funny that My Ding A Ling shows up. I’m reading a Chuck Berry biography and just went through that whole section. It reminded me that maybe Sometimes When We Touch isn’t really the worst song of all time. I had no expectations of Dan Hill. But Chuck Berry? What an embarrassing POS.
It’s certainly unfortunate that My Ding a Ling was his first number one.
25/25 with 1:18 left. Or I did it in 1:18? 1:18 was on the screen when I was done. Whatever.
Wow – that’s a good effort.
24/25 Missed the DJ Khaled one, as I’m not familiar with any of his songs.
I don’t know any DJ Khaled either, must have got it via elimination.
Yeah, if only I’d clicked on the one by Akon (whose music I also know nothing about) first lol.
22 – perfectly adequate!
Yup, that’s a really good effort.
13
Thanks for playing!
My pleasure. It’s always fun (and humbling.)
12. I got the “old” ones that I know and didn’t know the modern” ones.
My blog’s “traffic” is Kingclover every couple of months and thousands of Chinese who must be really interested in my reviews of The Rezillos and The Tom Robinson Band:)
What do you mean? You really get thousands of hits from China???!!!
I get you looking at my blog as you do occasionally and literally the only other views I get are from China. Maybe not thousands (I was exaggerating for effect), but quite a few. Most “follower” requests are from young Chinese women offering to sell me health products – viagra, diet pills etc.
Well, don’t buy any of those products. They’re probably infected with Covid or else they’re counterfeited knock-offs of other products. LMAO
China was my 35th highest traffic country last year.
17/25. Started off okay but then I dropped off the cliff
Good effort!
16/25. There was too many from the 2010s.
Good effort though.
I did 11/25, so 44%. Not as bad as I thought, though.
Yup, solid effort!
Thanks! 🙂
21/25…. a few well placed guesses…
I had a great Jan-April last year…then May – August was slow…it picked up in September for me as well. I also dropped off from last year although I took a month off in August…that didn’t help but my archive kept the views around the same as July.
It’s a bit temperamental sometimes, right? I changed the background colour on mobile in February last year and it crashed my views for a while.
Yes it is…I tried posting from my cell…it just doesn’t work.