September 18, 1982. I can peg my fascination with music charts to that date. After listening to a local radio station’s countdown of the hits of the summer, I decided to make my own list of favorites (see original list here). I ended up revising it every few days, eventually developing my own charts which I maintained into the ‘90s.
I’ve also projected before and after those lists to create speculative lists of #1 songs for eras not covered by those original charts. You can check out those links here, but this page is focused on the #1 songs that might have been for me in the 2010s.
Click here to see other Dave’s Faves song lists.
2020:
- Feb. 1: Alanis Morissette “Reasons I Drink” (4)
- Feb. 29: Indigo Girls “Shit Kickin’” (2)
- March 14: Sting “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (4)
- April 11: Fish “Weltschmerz” (3)
- May 2: Eric Bazilian “Help!” (5)
- June 6: Indigo Girls “Country Radio” (4)
- July 4: Glass Animals “Heat Waves” (3)
- July 25: Chris Cornell “Patience” (3)
- Aug. 15: Fish “Garden of Remembrance” (5)
- Sept. 12: Fish “This Party’s Over” (5)
- Oct. 17: Bruce Springsteen “Letter to You” (1)
- Oct. 24: John Mitchell “A Gentleman’s Excuse Me” (3)
- Nov. 14: Crowded House “Whatever You Want” (3)
- Dec. 5: Del Amitri “Close Your Eyes and Think of England” (4)
2021:
- Jan. 8: Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License” (7)
- Feb. 27: Post Malone “Only Wanna Be with You” (6)
- April 10: Dennis DeYoung “Isle of Misanthrope” (3)
- May 1: Eric Bazilian “Back in the 80s” (5)
- June 5: Styx “Crash of the Crown” (4)
- July 3: Jon Batiste “Freedom” (3)
- July 24: Walker Hayes “Fancy Like” (4)
- Aug. 21: Angel Olsen “Safety Dance” (3)
- Sept. 11: Chris Stapleton “Nothing Else Matters” (4)
- Oct. 2: John Mellencamp & Bruce Springsteen “Wasted Days” (5)
- Nov. 6: Tears for Fears “The Tipping Point” (4)
- Dec. 4: Kacey Musgraves “Fix You” (3)
- Dec. 25: Tears for Fears “No Small Thing” (4)
2022:
- Jan. 22: Tears for Fears “Break the Man” (3)
- Feb. 22: Keb’ Mo’ “Lean on Me” (4)
- Mar. 12: Tears for Fears “Long Long Long Time” (3)
- Mar. 31: Lyle Lovett “12th of June” (5)
- May 7: Bonnie Raitt “Just Like That”
(5)
- June 11: Alan Parsons with Tommy Shaw “Uroboros” (3)
- July 2: Michael Franti & Spearhead “Life Is Amazing” (3)
- July 23: Weezer “Records” (3)
- Aug. 13: Noah Kahan “Stick Season” (3)
- Sept. 3: Michael Franti & Spearhead “No Makeup” (1)
- Sept. 10: Hardy with Lainey Wilson “Wait in the Truck” (1)
- Sept. 17: Death Cab for Cutie “Pepper” (2)
- Oct. 1: Beck “Old Man” (4)
- Oct. 29: Simple Minds “The Walls Came Down” (2)
- Nov. 12: Willie Nelson with Lucinda Williams “Live Forever” (6)
- Dec. 24: Jelly Roll “Need a Favor” (4)
2023:
- Jan. 14: The New Pornographers “Really Really Light” (3)
- Feb. 24: The National “Tropic Morning News” (4)
- Mar. 4: Beck “Thinking About You” (3)
- Mar. 25: The Revivalists “Kid” (2)
- Apr. 8: Joy Oladokun & Noah Kahan “We’re All Gonna Die” (3)
- Apr. 29: Jenny Lewis “Psychos” (2)
- May 13: Ben Folds “Exhausting Lover” (2)
- May 27: John Mellencamp “Hey God” (1)
- June 3: Joy Oladokun “Taking Things for Granted” (1)
- June 10: The National & Taylor Swift “The Alcott” (1)
- June 17: John Mellencamp “The Eyes of Portland” (2)
- July 1: Hozier “Francesca” (2)
- July 15: Noah Kahan “Dial Drunk” (2)
- July 29: Fall Out Boy “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (2)
- Aug. 12: Foo Fighters with Alanis Morissette “Mandinka” (2)
- Aug. 26: The Gaslight Anthem with Bruce Springsteen “History Books” (3)
- Sept. 16: Zach Bryan & Kacey Musgraves “I Remember Everything” (2)
- Sept. 30: Blink-182 “One More Time” (3)
- Oct. 21: Bruce Springsteen “Addicted to Romance” (2)
- Nov. 4: The Beatles “Now and Then” (4)
- Dec. 2: Trevor Horn & Steve Hogarth “Drive” (4)
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First posted 12/30/2023. | 
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