October 7, 2000: The highest song entering the Hot 100 single's chart, at Number 38 is "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin.
Ricky Martin's “She Bangs” was the first single from his album “Sound Loaded.”
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Written by Desmond Child, Walter Afanasieff, Robi Draco Rosa and Glenn Monroig, the infectious dance hit peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Martin his second-most successful single behind “Livin’ La Vida Loca” and earning the Puerto Rican star a Grammy nomination in 2001.
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October 7, 1978: Dire Straits released their self-titled debut album containing the hit "Sultans of Swing."
Dire Straits' minimalist interpretation of pub rock had already crystallized by the time they released their eponymous debut. Driven by Mark Knopfler's spare, tasteful guitar lines and his husky warbling, the album is a set of bluesy rockers.
And while the bar band mentality of pub-rock is at the core of Dire Straits -- even the group's breakthrough single, "Sultans of Swing," offered a lament for a neglected pub rock band -- their music is already beyond the simple boogies and shuffles of their forefathers, occasionally dipping into jazz and country.
Read more: Allmusic
"Go All the Way" by the American rock group Raspberries was written by band leader Eric Carmen.
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It was their second single release, their all-time biggest US hit, and appeared on their debut LP, Raspberries. Because of its sexually suggestive lyrics, considered risqué for the day, the song was banned by the BBC.
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In 1989, Don Henley had himself one heck of a career boost with his third solo album, End of the Innocence, which contained three Top 40 singles; The title track, “End of the Innocence,” plus “The Heart of the Matter” and “The Last Worthless Evening.” The song is about Henley telling a woman that she should be with him and if she does, she will no longer spend any more “worthless evenings”. The longtime rumor is that the song is about famed movie star Michelle Pfeiffer.
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October 7, 1998: Eiffel 65 released "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" from the album Europop.
When Eiffel 65 released “Blue (Da Ba Dee),” it was a flop. They sold around 200 records, shrugged it off as a loss, and forgot about it.
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But in a wild turn of events, the track got picked up by a small local station before getting airplay on one of the biggest radio stations in Italy—and within days, it was steamrolling its way to becoming one of the biggest hits of the late 1990s, taking the electronic music group touring around the world as their song shot up the charts.
Read more: VICE
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