These hits topped the Dutch Top 40 in 1969.
Issue Date | Song | Artist(s) | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
4 January | "Hair" | Zen | [1] |
11 January | [2] | ||
18 January | [3] | ||
25 January | "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" | Nina Simone | [4] |
1 February | [5] | ||
8 February | [6] | ||
15 February | [7] | ||
22 February | [8] | ||
1 March | "Atlantis" | Donovan | [9] |
8 March | [10] | ||
15 March | [11] | ||
22 March | "Why" | The Cats | [12] |
29 March | [13] | ||
5 April | [14] | ||
12 April | [15] | ||
19 April | [16] | ||
26 April | "Goodbye" | Mary Hopkin | [17] |
3 May | [18] | ||
10 May | "Get Back" | The Beatles | [19] |
17 May | [20] | ||
24 May | "Israelites" | Desmond Dekker & the Aces | [21] |
31 May | [22] | ||
7 June | "Oh Happy Day" | The Edwin Hawkins Singers | [23] |
14 June | [24] | ||
21 June | "The Ballad of John and Yoko" | The Beatles | [25] |
28 June | [26] | ||
5 July | [27] | ||
12 July | [28] | ||
19 July | "I Want to Live" | Aphrodite's Child | [29] |
26 July | "Give Peace a Chance" | Plastic Ono Band | [30] |
2 August | [31] | ||
9 August | "Saved by the Bell" | Robin Gibb | [32] |
16 August | "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" | Zager and Evans | [33] |
23 August | [34] | ||
30 August | [35] | ||
6 September | [36] | ||
13 September | "Don't Forget to Remember" | Bee Gees | [37] |
20 September | [38] | ||
27 September | "Bloody Mary" | Tom & Dick | [39] |
4 October | [40] | ||
11 October | [41] | ||
18 October | "My Special Prayer" | Percy Sledge | [42] |
25 October | [43] | ||
1 November | [44] | ||
8 November | [45] | ||
15 November | [46] | ||
22 November | "Oh Well (Part 1)" | Fleetwood Mac | [47] |
29 November | [48] | ||
6 December | [49] | ||
13 December | [50] | ||
20 December | "Marian" | The Cats | [51] |
27 December | [52] | ||
"Sugar, Sugar" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry and recorded by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was released as the group's third single on the Calendar Records label on May 24, 1969, rereleased on the Kirshner Records label in July 1969, and included on their second album, Everything's Archie. In the autumn of 1969, it topped both Billboard's Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart, ranking number one for the year in both America and the UK. It is the most successful bubblegum pop single of all time, and is widely regarded as the apotheosis of the late-1960s/early-1970s bubblegum music genre. In mid-1970, R&B/soul singer Wilson Pickett achieved success on both the US soul and pop charts with a cover version.
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40. It started as a radio program titled "Veronica Top 40", on the offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting. Joost den Draaijer initiated the Top 40 in the Netherlands. The show currently airs on Fridays from 2 to 6 PM on Qmusic.
"Games People Play" is a song written, composed, and performed by American singer-songwriter Joe South, released in August 1968. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1969 and won the 1970 Grammy Awards for both Best Contemporary Song and the Song of the Year.
The Cats were a Dutch rock band formed in Volendam in 1964.
Zen was a Dutch rock band, founded by Siegfried 'Siebe' de Jong and Dirk van der Ploeg in 1965. Van der Ploeg was the songwriter for the band, but the band underwent numerous changes in its line-up in its existence. The hippie-oriented one hit wonder band hit the top spot on the Dutch Top 40 singles chart in January 1969, with their version of the theme song from the musical Hair.