Music
Which day of the week inspires the most hit songs?
by Mark Teo
February 6, 2015
Conventional wisdom would lead us to believe that the weekend—Friday, Saturday, and Sunday—would produce the most hit songs. Hit songs, after all, tend to be celebratory, party-starting and irreverent—I mean, have you heard Rebecca Black’s “Friday”? And for the most part, a study by Vocativ confirmed our common-sense assumptions: They scanned Billboard archives, dating all the way back to 1962, to find out which days of the week produced the most hits.
What they found was predictable: There’s tons of songs about Saturday and Sunday. But there are a few surprise omissions—U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and Whigfield’s “Saturday Night,” for example, didn’t make their way to the Billboard charts—and a few surprises, as well. Like this: Monday has inspired more hit songs than Friday. We don’t get it either. Scroll through the gallery above for a day-by-day breakdown of Billboard’s hit songs.
And also: Here’s Whigfield’s “Saturday Night,” because it is a bomb-ass jam suited for any day of the week.
