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92-480: " Lamplight " is a song by the Bee Gees , released as the B-side of " First of May ", but featured as the single's A-side in Germany. It also featured on their double album Odessa in March 1969. The song was written and composed by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb and featured lead vocals by Robin Gibb. No other singles were released from the album, and the fact that the group's manager Robert Stigwood chose "First of May", which only featured Barry Gibb 's voice for
184-469: A 150-item pop album chart in 1963. It was eventually expanded into a 200 album list on May 13, 1967. Various genre album charts were also published: Country LP chart in January 1964, R&B chart in 1965, jazz in 1969, Latin in 1973, Gospel 1974, and Rock in 1981. Other charts include Classical albums, Comedy Albums, Holiday Albums, Soundtracks, Independent Albums, Catalog Album and many others besides. At
276-449: A Beatles-type reception, and special security arrangements were being put in place. In February, Horizontal repeated the success of their first album, featuring the group's first UK No. 1 single " Massachusetts " (a No. 11 US hit) and the No. 7 UK single " World ". The sound of the album Horizontal had a more "rock" sound than their previous release, although ballads like " And
368-920: A Friday-to-Thursday cycle since July 2015; previously it was on a Monday-to-Sunday cycle. Radio airplay song charts, however, follow the Monday-to-Sunday cycle (previously Wednesday-to-Tuesday). The charts are released each Tuesday with an issue date the following Saturday. The first chart published by Billboard was "Last Week's Ten Best Sellers Among The Popular Songs", a list of best-selling sheet music , in July 1913. Other early charts listed popular song performances in theatres and recitals in different cities. In 1928, "Popular Numbers Featured by Famous Singers and Leaders" appeared, which added radio performances to in-person performances. On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published its first pop chart based on record sales. Titled "Ten Best Records for Week Ending", it listed
460-641: A Friday-to-Thursday cycle. Radio Songs, which informs the Hot 100, synced to the Monday-to-Sunday period after formerly covering Wednesday to Tuesday. All other radio charts and genre tallies followed the Monday-to-Sunday cycle. The move was made to coincide with the IFPI's move to have all singles and albums released globally on Fridays. Starting on February 12, 2005, Billboard changed its methodology to include paid digital downloads from digital music retailers such as Rhapsody , AmazonMP3, and iTunes . With this policy change,
552-509: A brace of shows at the Stadthalle, Braunschweig . After that, the group was off to Switzerland . As Maurice described it: There were over 5,000 kids at the airport in Zurich. The entire ride to Bern, the kids were waving Union Jacks. When we got to the hotel, the police weren't there to meet us and the kids crushed the car. We were inside and the windows were all getting smashed in, and we were on
644-464: A chart manager, who makes these determinations. According to the 100th-anniversary issue of Billboard , prior to the official implementation of SoundScan tracking in November 1991, many radio stations and retail stores removed songs from their manual reports after the associated record labels stopped promoting a particular single. Thus, songs fell quickly after peaking and had shorter chart lives. In 1990,
736-410: A concept album called Masterpeace , evolved into the double-album Odessa . Most rock critics felt this was the best Bee Gees album of the 1960s with its progressive rock feel on the title track , the country-flavoured " Marley Purt Drive " and " Give Your Best ", and ballads such as " Melody Fair " and " First of May " (the last of which became the only single from the album and a UK # 6 hit). Feeling
828-404: A full week of sales on combined sales and airplay points. This allowed several tracks to debut at number one. In December 1998, the policy was further modified to allow tracks to chart on the basis of airplay alone without a commercial release. This change was made to reflect the changing realities of the music business. Previous to this, several substantial radio and MTV hits had not appeared on
920-487: A hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s. The group wrote all their own original material, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists, and are regarded as one of the most important and influential acts in pop-music history. They have been referred to in the media as The Disco Kings, Britain's First Family of Harmony, and The Kings of Dance Music . Born on
1012-473: A large batch of original material—including the song that became their first major hit, " Spicks and Specks " (on which Byrne played the trumpet coda)—as well as cover versions of current hits by overseas acts such as the Beatles. They regularly collaborated with other local musicians, including members of beat band Steve & The Board, led by Steve Kipner , Nat's teenage son. Frustrated by their lack of success,
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#17328958429381104-499: A live broadcast from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral for a Christmas television special called How On Earth?, they performed their own song, "Thank You For Christmas" which was written especially for the programme, as well as a medley of the traditional Christmas carols " Silent Night ", " The First Noel " and " Mary's Boy Child " (the latter incorrectly noted as " Hark! The Herald Angels Sing " on tape boxes and subsequent release). The songs were all pre-recorded on 1 December 1967 and
1196-513: A promotional campaign to coincide with its release. Stigwood proclaimed that the Bee Gees were "The most significant new musical talent of 1967", thus initiating the comparison of the Bee Gees to the Beatles. Before recording the first album, the group expanded to include Colin Petersen and Vince Melouney . " New York Mining Disaster 1941 ", their second British single (their first-issued UK 45 rpm
1288-554: A replacement for Robin. To accompany the album, they also filmed a TV special with Frankie Howerd and cameos from several other contemporary pop and rock stars, which aired on the BBC in December 1970. Petersen played drums on the tracks recorded for the album but was fired from the group after filming began (he went on to form the Humpy Bong with Jonathan Kelly ). His parts were edited out of
1380-566: A rut. The album Life in a Tin Can , released on Robert Stigwood's newly formed RSO Records , and its lead-off single, " Saw a New Morning ", sold poorly with the single peaking at No. 94. This was followed by an unreleased album (known as A Kick in the Head Is Worth Eight in the Pants ). A second compilation album, Best of Bee Gees, Volume 2 , was released in 1973, although it did not repeat
1472-551: A seven-week tour of the US on 2 August 1968, but on 27 July, Robin collapsed and fell unconscious. He was admitted to a London nursing home for nervous exhaustion, and the American tour was postponed. The band began recording their sixth album, which resulted in their spending a week recording at Atlantic Studios in New York. Robin, still feeling poorly, missed the New York sessions, but
1564-629: A solo album which never saw official release either, although " I'll Kiss Your Memory " was released as a single backed by "This Time" without much interest. Meanwhile, Robin saw chart success in Europe and Australia with his UK No. 2 hit " Saved by the Bell " from the album Robin's Reign . In mid 1970, according to Barry, "Robin rang me in Spain where I was on holiday [saying] 'let's do it again'". By 21 August 1970, after they had reunited, Barry announced that
1656-461: A song could chart based on digital downloads alone. On July 31, 2007, Billboard changed its methodology for the Hot 100 chart to include digital streams, which at the time was obtained from Yahoo and AOL's streaming platforms. This change was made exclusively to the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The effect of this chart change was minuscule at the time because it was estimated to account for 5% of
1748-451: A soulful ballad sung by Barry, has since become a pop standard recorded by many singers. Another single, " Holiday ", released in the US, peaked at No. 16. The parent album, Bee Gees 1st (their first internationally), peaked at No. 7 in the US and No. 8 in the UK. Bill Shepherd was credited as the arranger. After recording that album, the group recorded their first BBC session at
1840-518: A specific genre such as R&B, country, or rock, or they may cover all genres. The charts can be ranked according to sales, streams, or airplay, and for main song charts such as the Hot 100 song chart, all three data are used to compile the charts. For the Billboard 200 album chart, streams and track sales are included in addition to album sales . The weekly sales and streams charts have been monitored on
1932-546: A trademark of the band. This was also the first Bee Gees album to have two US top-10 singles since 1968's Idea . Main Course also became their first charting R&B album. On the Bee Gees' appearance on The Midnight Special in 1975, to promote Main Course , they sang "To Love Somebody" with Helen Reddy . Around the same time, the Bee Gees recorded three Beatles covers—" Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight ", " She Came in Through
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#17328958429382024-607: Is based on the views and fans on social networking websites like Myspace and Facebook. It has since been discontinued. In May 2014, after the Korea K-Pop Hot 100 chart was discontinued in the U.S., the Billboard K-Town column continued to provide chart information for K-pop artists on all Billboard charts. The Artist 100 debuted in July 2014. In June 2019, Billboard launched the Top Songwriters Chart and
2116-479: Is considered the true guide to a song's popularity until the creation of the Hot 100 in 1958. Another accolade of a successful song was a position on the "Honor Roll of Hits", introduced on March 24, 1945, initially as a 10-song list, later expanded to 30 songs, which ranked the most popular songs by combining record and sheet sales, disk jockey, and jukebox performances as determined by Billboard's weekly nationwide survey. This chart amalgamated different records of
2208-461: The Billboard chart at all, because many major labels chose not to release them as standalone singles, hoping their unavailability would spur greater album sales . Not offering a popular song to the public as a single was unheard of before the 1970s. The genres that suffered most at the time were those that increasingly impacted pop culture , including new genres such as trip hop and grunge . Among
2300-405: The Billboard charts. At the time, instead of using Nielsen SoundScan or Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (BDS), Billboard obtained its data from manual reports filled out by radio stations and stores. For different musical genres, which stations and stores are used separates the charts; each musical genre has a core audience or retail group. Each genre's department at Billboard is headed up by
2392-724: The Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester , England, until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the skiffle / rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes . The family then moved to Redcliffe , in the Moreton Bay Region , Queensland, Australia, and later to Cribb Island . After achieving their first chart successes in Australia as the Bee Gees, they returned to
2484-621: The Playhouse Theatre , Northumberland Avenue , in London, with Bill Bebb as the producer, and they performed three songs. That session is included on BBC Sessions: 1967–1973 (2008). After the release of Bee Gees' 1st , the group was first introduced in New York as "the English surprise". At that time, the band made their first British TV appearance on Top of the Pops . Maurice recalled: Jimmy Savile
2576-502: The country singles chart was the first chart to use SoundScan and BDS. They were followed by the Hot 100 and the R&;B chart in 1991. Today, all of the Billboard charts use this technology. Before September 1995, singles were allowed to chart in the week they first went on sale based on airplay points alone. The policy was changed in September 1995, to only allow a single to debut after
2668-417: The "Best Selling Popular Record Albums", was first published on March 24, 1945, with The King Cole Trio its first No. 1. The first chart had 10 albums, before reducing to five in the following weeks, then increasing again to 10 in 1948. The album chart was split into 33-8 and 45 rpm lists in 1950 before they recombined in 1954, then divided into mono and stereo classifications in 1959 before they merged into
2760-499: The 10 top-selling records of three leading record companies as reported by the companies themselves. In March 1937, the "Songs with the Most Radio Plugs" chart debuted with data from a separate company. In October 1938, a review list, "The Week's Best Records", was retitled "The Billboard Record Buying Guide" by incorporating airplay and sheet music sales, which would eventually become the first trade survey of record popularity. In
2852-557: The A-side, that caused Robin to quit the group (he would return in 1970). The song's demo was recorded on October 25, 1968 – this and another early version featured on the Sketches for Odessa disc released with the album's remastered edition in 2009. The song's introduction is sung in French – Alors viens encore cherie J'attendrai ans après ans sous la lampe dans la vieille avenue . The same passage
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2944-583: The Bathroom Window " with Barry providing lead vocals, and " Sun King " with Maurice providing lead vocals, for the unsuccessful musical/documentary All This and World War II . The next album, Children of the World , released in September 1976, was filled with Barry's new-found falsetto and Weaver's synthesizer disco licks. The first single from the album was " You Should Be Dancing ", which features percussion work by musician Stephen Stills . The song pushed
3036-469: The Beatles and directed NEMS, a British music store. Epstein passed the demo tapes to Robert Stigwood , who had recently joined NEMS. After an audition with Stigwood in February 1967, the Bee Gees signed a five-year contract whereby Polydor Records would release their records in the UK, and Atco Records would do so in the US. Work quickly began on the group's first international album, and Stigwood launched
3128-452: The Bee Gees "are there and they will never, ever part again". Maurice said, "We just discussed it and re-formed. We want to apologise publicly to Robin for the things that have been said." Earlier, in June 1970, Robin and Maurice recorded a dozen songs before Barry joined and included two songs that were on their reunion album. Around the same time, Barry and Robin were about to publish the book On
3220-567: The Bee Gees agreed with Stigwood to participate in the creation of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack . It was a turning point in their career. The cultural impact of both the film and the soundtrack was significant throughout the world, and epitomized the disco phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic . The band's involvement in the film did not begin until post-production. As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in
3312-440: The Bee Gees band that lasted through the late 1970s. Maurice, who had previously performed on piano, guitar, harpsichord, electric piano, organ, mellotron and bass guitar, as well as mandolin and Moog synthesiser , by then confined himself to bass onstage. At Eric Clapton 's suggestion, the brothers moved to Miami, Florida , early in 1975 to record at Criteria Studios . After starting off with ballads, they eventually heeded
3404-401: The Bee Gees to a level of stardom they had not previously achieved in the US, though their new R&B/disco sound was not as popular with some diehard fans. The pop ballad " Love So Right " reached No. 3 in the US, and " Boogie Child " reached US No. 12 in January 1977. The album peaked at No. 8 in the US. Following a successful live album, Here at Last... Bee Gees... Live ,
3496-604: The Bee Gees." With nine number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 , the Bee Gees are the third-most successful band in Billboard charts history behind only the Beatles and the Supremes . Following Maurice's sudden death in 2003 aged 53, Barry and Robin retired from the group after 45 years of activity. However, in 2009 Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in 2012, aged 62, and Colin Petersen died in 2024, aged 78, leaving Barry, Vince Melouney , and Geoff Bridgford as
3588-498: The Gibbs began their return journey to England on 4 January 1967, with Ossie Byrne travelling with them. While at sea in January 1967, the Gibbs learned that Go-Set , Australia's most popular and influential music newspaper, had declared "Spicks and Specks" the "Best Single of the Year". Before their departure from Australia to England, Hugh Gibb sent demos to Brian Epstein , who managed
3680-606: The July 27, 1940, issue, the first "Billboard Music Popularity Chart" was published for the week ending July 20, with separate listings covering retail sales, sheet music sales, jukebox song selection and radio play. Among the lists were the 10 songs of the "Best Selling Retail Records", which is the fore-runner of today's pop chart, with " I'll Never Smile Again " by Tommy Dorsey (featuring vocals by Frank Sinatra ) its first number one. This best-seller chart (also known as "Best Sellers in Stores" and "Best Selling Pop Singles in Stores")
3772-833: The Other Hand . They also recruited Geoff Bridgford as the group's official drummer. Bridgford had previously worked with the Groove and Tin Tin and played drums on Maurice's unreleased first solo album. In 1970, 2 Years On was released in October in the US and November in the UK. The lead single " Lonely Days " reached No. 3 in the United States, promoted by appearances on The Johnny Cash Show , J ohnny Carson 's Tonight Show , The Andy Williams Show , The Dick Cavett Show and The Ed Sullivan Show . Their ninth album, Trafalgar ,
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3864-630: The Rattlesnakes disbanded when Frost and Horrocks left, so the Gibb brothers then formed Wee Johnny Hayes and the Blue Cats, with Barry as "Johnny Hayes". In August 1958, the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy (born in March 1958), emigrated to Australia and settled in Redcliffe, Queensland , just north-east of Brisbane . The young brothers began performing to raise pocket money. Speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired
3956-544: The Sun Will Shine " and " Really and Sincerely " were included. The Horizontal album reached No. 12 in the US and No. 16 in the UK. With the release of Horizontal , they also embarked on a Scandinavian tour with concerts in Copenhagen . Around the same time, the Bee Gees turned down an offer to write and perform the soundtrack for the film Wonderwall , according to director Joe Massot . On 27 February 1968,
4048-495: The UK and No. 57 in the US. The Bee Gees felt "The Singer Sang His Song" was the stronger of the two sides, an opinion shared by listeners in the Netherlands who made it a No. 3 hit. Further Bee Gees chart singles followed: " I've Gotta Get a Message to You ", their second UK No. 1 (No. 8 US), and " I Started a Joke " (No. 6 US), both culled from the band's third album Idea . Idea reached No. 4 in
4140-461: The UK and was another top 20 album in the US (No. 17). After the tour and TV special to promote the album, Vince Melouney left the group, desiring to play more of a blues style music than the Gibbs were writing. Melouney did achieve one feat while with the Bee Gees: his " Such a Shame " (from Idea ) is the only song on any Bee Gees album not written by a Gibb brother. The band were due to begin
4232-403: The UK in January 1967, when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience. The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1977) was the turning point of their career, with both the film and soundtrack having a cultural impact throughout the world, enhancing the disco scene's mainstream appeal. They won five Grammy Awards for Saturday Night Fever , including Album of
4324-467: The US. The next two singles, " I.O.I.O. " and " If I Only Had My Mind on Something Else ", barely scraped the charts. On 1 December 1969, Barry and Maurice parted ways professionally. Maurice started to record his first solo album, The Loner , which was not released. Meanwhile, he released the single " Railroad " and starred in the West End musical Sing a Rude Song . In February 1970, Barry recorded
4416-506: The Year . The Bee Gees have sold over 120 million records worldwide, placing them among the best-selling music artists of all time , as well as the most successful trio in the history of contemporary music. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; the Hall's citation says, "Only Elvis Presley , the Beatles , Michael Jackson , Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold
4508-531: The band, backed by the 17-piece Massachusetts String Orchestra, began their first tour of Germany with two concerts at Hamburg Musikhalle . In March 1968, the band was supported by Procol Harum (who had a hit " A Whiter Shade of Pale ") on their German tour. As Robin's partner Molly Hullis recalls: "Germans were wilder than the fans in England at the heights of Beatlemania ." The tour schedule took them to 11 venues in as many days with 18 concerts played, finishing with
4600-404: The boys began to sing in harmony. The story is told that they were going to lip-sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema (as other children had done on previous weeks), but, as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live but received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In May 1958,
4692-648: The brothers met the American-born songwriter, producer, and entrepreneur Nat Kipner , who had just been appointed A&R manager of a new independent label , Spin Records . Kipner briefly took over as the group's manager and successfully negotiated their transfer to Spin in exchange for granting Festival the Australian distribution rights to the group's recordings. Through Kipner the Bee Gees met engineer-producer, Ossie Byrne , who produced (or co-produced with Kipner) many of
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#17328958429384784-490: The brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960, introduced them to Brisbane radio-presenter jockey Bill Gates. The crowd at the speedway would throw money onto the track for the boys, who generally performed during the interval of meetings (usually on the back of a truck that drove around the track) and, in a deal with Goode, any money they collected from the crowd they were allowed to keep. Gates named
4876-487: The brothers' experience of living in that city. It was released on his posthumous album 50 St. Catherine's Drive . The house was demolished in 2016. A minor hit in 1965, " Wine and Women ", led to the group's first LP, The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs . By 1966 Festival Records was, however, on the verge of dropping them from the Leedon roster because of their perceived lack of commercial success. At this time
4968-441: The chart's total points. In October 2012, Billboard significantly changed the methodology for its country, rock, Latin, and rap charts, when it incorporated sales of digital downloads and streaming plays into what had previously been airplay-only charts. Another change was that rather than measuring airplay only from radio stations of a particular genre, the new methodology measures airplay from all radio formats. This methodology
5060-651: The current Hot 100 chart. The jukebox chart ceased publication after the June 17, 1957, issue, the disk jockey chart after July 28, 1958, and the best-seller chart after October 13, 1958. After July 28, 1958, the composite chart the "Top 100" chart was also discontinued; and the "Hot 100" began the following week on August 4, 1958, listing " Poor Little Fool " by Ricky Nelson as its first No. 1. The Hot 100 currently combines singles sales, radio airplay , digital downloads , and streaming activity (including data from YouTube and other video sites). Many Billboard charts use this basic formula apart from charts dedicated to
5152-459: The earlier Spin recordings, most of which were cut at his own small, self-built St Clair Studio in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville . Byrne gave the Gibb brothers virtually unlimited access to St Clair Studio over a period of several months in mid-1966. The group later acknowledged that this enabled them to significantly improve their skills as recording artists. During this productive time, they recorded
5244-422: The end of each year, Billboard tallies the results of all of its charts, and the results are published in a year-end issue and heard on year-end editions of its American Top 40 and American Country Countdown radio broadcasts. The first such annual charts released were for the year 1946, published on the January 4, 1947, issue, although annual listing of songs had been published some years prior, such as
5336-553: The film Melody . In 1972, they hit No. 16 in the US with the non-album single " My World ", backed by Maurice's composition " On Time ". Another 1972 single, " Run to Me " from the LP To Whom It May Concern , returned them to the UK top 10 for the first time in three years. Bridgford left the group partway through recording, and the band chose not to hire a new member to replace him. The resulting three-piece lineup of Barry, Robin and Maurice would remain unbroken for
5428-444: The final cut of the film and Pentangle drummer Terry Cox was recruited to complete the recording of songs for the album. A proposed feature film starring the group, Lord Kitchener's Little Drummer Boys , was not made. After the album was released in early 1970, it seemed that the Bee Gees were finished. The leadoff single, " Don't Forget to Remember ", was a big hit in the UK, reaching No. 2, but only reached No. 73 in
5520-404: The flipside, " Lamplight ", should have been the A-side, Robin quit the group in mid-1969 and launched a solo career. The first of many Bee Gees compilations, Best of Bee Gees , was released featuring the non-LP single " Words " plus the Australian hit " Spicks and Specks ". The single " Tomorrow Tomorrow " was also released and was a moderate hit in the UK, where it reached No. 23, but it
5612-550: The floor. On 17 March, the band performed "Words" on The Ed Sullivan Show . The other artists who performed on that night's show were Lucille Ball , George Hamilton and Fran Jeffries . On 27 March 1968, the band performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Two more singles followed in early 1968: the ballad " Words " (No. 8 UK, No. 15 US) and the double A-sided single " Jumbo " backed with " The Singer Sang His Song ". "Jumbo" only reached No. 25 in
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#17328958429385704-423: The group ended up playing small clubs. As Barry joked, "We ended up in, have you ever heard of Batley's the variety club in ( West Yorkshire ) England?". On the advice of Ahmet Ertegun , head of their US label Atlantic Records , Stigwood arranged for the group to record with soul music producer Arif Mardin . The resulting LP, Mr. Natural , included fewer ballads and foreshadowed the R&B direction of
5796-529: The group lip-synched their performance. The recordings were eventually released on the "Horizontal" reissue bonus disc in 2008. The folk group the Settlers and Radio 1 disc-jockey, Kenny Everett , also performed on the programme, which was presented by the Reverend Edward H. Patey, dean of the cathedral. January 1968 began with a promotional trip to the US. Los Angeles Police were on alert in anticipation of
5888-525: The group the "BGs" (later changed to "Bee Gees") after his, Goode's and Barry Gibb's initials. The name was not specifically a reference to "Brothers Gibb", despite popular belief. During the next few years, they began working regularly at resorts on the Queensland coast. Through his songwriting, Barry sparked the interest of Australian star Col Joye , who helped the brothers get a recording deal in 1963 with Festival Records subsidiary Leedon Records under
5980-407: The many pre-1999 songs that had ended up in this Hot 100 limbo were The Cardigans ' " Lovefool ", Natalie Imbruglia 's " Torn " (which peaked at 42), Goo Goo Dolls ' " Iris " (which hit number 9), OMC 's " How Bizarre ", Sugar Ray 's " Fly ", and No Doubt 's " Don't Speak ". On June 25, 2015, Billboard made changes in its chart requirements. The official street date for all new album releases
6072-467: The methodology for its charts that incorporated YouTube video streaming data into the determination of ranking positions on streaming charts. The incorporation of YouTube streaming data enhanced a formula that includes on-demand audio streaming and online radio streaming. The YouTube video streams that used in this methodology are official video streams, Vevo on YouTube streams, and user-generated clips that use authorized audio. Billboard said this change
6164-521: The movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs ." Producer Robert Stigwood commissioned the Bee Gees to create the songs for the film. The brothers wrote the songs "virtually in a single weekend" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France. Barry Gibb remembered the reaction when Stigwood and music supervisor Bill Oakes arrived and listened to the demos: They flipped out and said these will be great. We still had no concept of
6256-438: The movie, except some kind of rough script that they'd brought with them. ... You've got to remember, we were fairly dead in the water at that point, 1975, somewhere in that zone—the Bee Gees' sound was basically tired. We needed something new. We hadn't had a hit record in about three years. So we felt, Oh Jeez, that's it. That's our life span, like most groups in the late '60s. So, we had to find something. We didn't know what
6348-459: The name "Bee Gees". The three released two or three singles a year, while Barry supplied additional songs to other Australian artists. In 1962 the Bee Gees were chosen as the supporting act for Chubby Checker 's concert at the Sydney Stadium. From 1963 to 1966, the Gibb family lived at 171 Bunnerong Road, Maroubra , in Sydney. Just before his death, Robin Gibb recorded the song "Sydney" about
6440-412: The recording. Bee Gees The Bee Gees were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry , Robin , and Maurice Gibb . The trio were especially successful in popular music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers in the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies : Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were
6532-412: The relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere. The results are published in Billboard magazine. Billboard biz, the online extension of the Billboard charts, provides additional weekly charts, as well as year-end charts. The two most important charts are the Billboard Hot 100 for songs and Billboard 200 for albums, and other charts may be dedicated to
6624-667: The remainder of the band's active years. On 24 November 1972, the band headlined the "Woodstock of the West" Festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum (which was a West Coast answer to Woodstock in New York), which also featured Sly and the Family Stone , Stevie Wonder and the Eagles . Also in 1972, the group sang " Hey Jude " with Wilson Pickett . By 1973, however, the Bee Gees were in
6716-446: The rest of the band put away instrumental tracks and demos. By 1969, Robin began to feel that Stigwood had been favouring Barry as the frontman. The Bee Gees' performances in early 1969 on the Top of the Pops and The Tom Jones Show , singing "I Started a Joke" and "First of May" as a medley, were the final appearances of the group with Robin. Their next album, which was to have been
6808-454: The rest of their career. When it, too, failed to attract much interest, Mardin encouraged them to work within the soul music style. The brothers attempted to assemble a live stage band that could replicate their studio sound. Lead guitarist Alan Kendall had come on board in 1971 but did not have much to do until Mr. Natural . For that album, they added drummer Dennis Bryon, and they later added ex- Strawbs keyboard player Blue Weaver, completing
6900-471: The same song by different performers as one, and topping the first chart was " Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive ". In November 1955, a composite standing chart that combined retail sales, jukebox and disk jockeys play charts but counted individual record separately was created as "The Top 100" chart, with " Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing " by The Four Aces its first No. 1. This chart is the direct predecessor to
6992-408: The success of Volume 1 . On 6 April 1973 episode of The Midnight Special they performed " Money (That's What I Want) " with Jerry Lee Lewis . Also in 1973, they were invited by Chuck Berry to perform two songs with him onstage at The Midnight Special : " Johnny B. Goode " and " Reelin' and Rockin' ". After a tour of the United States in early 1974 and a Canadian tour later in the year,
7084-434: The surviving members of the group. Born on the Isle of Man during the late 1940s, the Gibb brothers moved to their father Hugh Gibb 's home town Chorlton-cum-Hardy , Manchester, England, in 1955. They formed a skiffle /rock-and-roll group, the Rattlesnakes , which consisted of Barry on guitar and vocals, Robin and Maurice on vocals, and friends Paul Frost on drums and Kenny Horrocks on tea-chest bass . In December 1957,
7176-432: The three data sources: sales (both physical and digital), airplay and streaming. In the early period, the issue dates and the chart dates given in Billboard were different until January 13, 1962, when the issue dates and the chart dates both referred to the week ending dates. The Honor Roll of Hits chart was discontinued after November 16, 1963. Billboard also publishes various music genre charts. "Harlem Hit Parade"
7268-466: The undifferentiated annual chart based on "Honor Roll of Hits" for 1945. Between 1991 and 2006, the top single/album/artist(s) in each of those charts was/were awarded in the form of the annual Billboard Music Awards , which were held in December until the awards went dormant in 2007. The awards returned in May 2011. For many years, a song had to be commercially available as a single to be considered for any of
7360-507: The urging of Mardin and Stigwood, and crafted more dance-oriented disco songs, including their second US No. 1, " Jive Talkin' ", along with US No. 7 " Nights on Broadway ". The band liked the resulting new sound. This time the public agreed by sending the LP Main Course up the charts. This album included the first Bee Gees songs wherein Barry used falsetto , something that became
7452-507: The world, launching the most popular period of the disco era. They also penned the song " If I Can't Have You ", which became a US No. 1 hit for Yvonne Elliman , while the Bee Gees' own version was the B-side of "Stayin' Alive". Such was the popularity of Saturday Night Fever that two different versions of the song " More Than a Woman " received airplay, one by the Bee Gees, which was relegated to an album track, and another by Tavares , which
7544-508: Was "Spicks and Specks"), was issued to radio stations with a blank white label listing only the song title. Some DJs immediately assumed this was a new single by the Beatles and started playing the song in heavy rotation . This helped the song climb into the top 20 in both the UK and US. No such chicanery was needed to boost the Bee Gees' next single, " To Love Somebody ", into the US Top 20. Originally written for Otis Redding , "To Love Somebody",
7636-845: Was created in 1943 which became "Best-Selling Race Records" in 1948 and "Best-selling Rhythm & Blues Records" in 1949, and then "Soul Singles" in 1969 (currently Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ). "Best-selling Folk Records" was published in 1948, and this morphed into "Best-Selling Country & Western Records" in 1949, "Best-Selling C&W Records" in 1956 and "Hot Country Singles" in 1963 (now Hot Country Songs ). MOR charts has been published since 1961, variously called "Easy Listening", "Middle-Road Singles" and "Pop-Standard Singles" and now Adult Contemporary . Billboard charts now cover these music genres: rock , pop, country , dance , bluegrass , jazz , classical , R&B , rap , electronic , Latin , Christian , world and holiday music , and even ringtones for mobile (cell) phones. An album chart,
7728-431: Was extended to their Christian and gospel charts in late 2013. These methodology changes resulted in higher positions on the genre charts for songs with crossover appeal to other genres and radio formats (especially pop) at the expense of songs that appeal almost exclusively to core fans of the given genre, a change that proved controversial with those devotees. On February 20, 2013, Billboard announced another change in
7820-566: Was going to happen. Bill Oakes, who supervised the soundtrack, asserts that Saturday Night Fever did not begin the disco craze but rather prolonged it: "Disco had run its course. These days, Fever is credited with kicking off the whole disco thing—it really didn't. Truth is, it breathed new life into a genre that was actually dying." Three Bee Gees singles—" How Deep Is Your Love " (US No. 1, UK No. 3), " Stayin' Alive " (US No. 1, UK No. 4) and " Night Fever " (US No. 1, UK No. 1)—charted high in many countries around
7912-711: Was made to further reflect the divergent platforms of music consumption in today's world. Notes In December 2010, Billboard announced a new chart titled Social 50 , which ranks the most active artists on the world's leading social networking sites. The Social 50 chart tallies artists' popularity using their weekly additions of friends/fans/followers, along with weekly artist page views and weekly song plays on Myspace , YouTube , Facebook , Twitter and iLike . In January 2011, Billboard introduced another chart called Uncharted , which lists new and developing artists, who are yet to appear on any major Billboard chart, "...regardless of their country of origin." The ranking
8004-413: Was moved from Tuesday to Friday in the United States. For all sales-based charts (ranking both albums and tracks), Billboard and Nielsen changed the chart reporting period to cover the first seven days of an album's release. As a result of the changes, The Billboard 200, top albums sales, genre-based albums, digital songs, genre-based downloads, streaming songs, and genre-focused streaming surveys ran on
8096-570: Was on it and that was amazing because we'd seen pictures of him in the Beatles fan club book, so we thought we were really there! That show had Lulu , us, the Move , and the Stones doing ' Let's Spend the Night Together '. You have to remember this was really before the superstar was invented so you were all in it together. In late 1967, they began recording their second album. On 21 December 1967, in
8188-451: Was only No. 54 in the US. The compilation reached the top 10 in both the UK and the US. While Robin pursued his solo career, Barry, Maurice and Petersen continued as the Bee Gees on their next album, Cucumber Castle . The band made their debut performance without Robin at Talk of the Town . They had recruited their sister, Lesley, to participate in at least one performance at this time as
8280-463: Was released in late 1971. The single " How Can You Mend a Broken Heart " was their first to hit No. 1 on the US charts, while " Israel " reached No. 22 in the Netherlands. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" also brought the Bee Gees their first Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals . Later that year, the group's songs were included in the soundtrack for
8372-484: Was sung at the song's end, this time in English. There are no French words featured on the demo; it starts straight in at the first stanza. The song was recorded in Trident and IBC Studios, London, England, produced by Robert Stigwood with the Bee Gees. This song was included on their EP called I Started a Joke , released in the same year. Singers Steve Barry and Lorraine Piché covered this song in 2002. Steve Barry produced
8464-508: Was the hit. During a nine-month period beginning in the Christmas season of 1977, seven songs written by the brothers held the No. 1 position on the US charts for 27 of 37 consecutive weeks: three of their own releases, two for brother Andy Gibb , the Yvonne Elliman single, and " Grease ", performed by Frankie Valli . Billboard charts The Billboard charts tabulate
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