20 Questions

Unfortunately, "It's Raining Men" didn't make the top 10,so it is ruled out.

0 Person, Place or Thing
1 It is a song
2 First recorded prior to 2000
3 It was first recorded between 1970-99
4. A single person is not credited as the performer
5. Performing group not in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
6. The group is American
7. None of the lead vocalists are male
8 The song was recorded from 1970-1985
9. The song was released on or between Jan 1, 1978 and Dec 31, 1985?
10. The song was never on the billboard weekly top 40
11. The song was not released in any of the years 78, 79, 80, 81
12. The song was released in 82 or 83.
13. The song was released in 1982.
14. The song made the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs (there is no reference to the "Hot Black Singles" chart on the song's wiki page)
15. The song made the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart.
16. The song charted at one of positions 4 through 10 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart

I think we're back to Nasty Girl by Vanity 6 as the leading contender.

I don't think the Nasty Girl video had anything close to 60m views tho.

I'm starting to think this is a song that was first released in 1982 but maybe only became popular some time later...maybe even a cover of it? I can't find anything that fits.

Me neither. I think it must be a better known song than this.

Did it chart in the top 10 in 1982?

I gave you a bit more info than the question sought..

0 Person, Place or Thing
1 It is a song
2 First recorded prior to 2000
3 It was first recorded between 1970-99
4. A single person is not credited as the performer
5. Performing group not in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
6. The group is American
7. None of the lead vocalists are male
8 The song was recorded from 1970-1985
9. The song was released on or between Jan 1, 1978 and Dec 31, 1985?
10. The song was never on the billboard weekly top 40
11. The song was not released in any of the years 78, 79, 80, 81
12. The song was released in 82 or 83.
13. The song was released in 1982.
14. The song made the top 40 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs (there is no reference to the "Hot Black Singles" chart on the song's wiki page)
15. The song made the top 10 of the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart.
16. The song charted at one of positions 4 through 10 on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart
17. The song charted (regarding Q14,15 and 16) in 1983

I don't understand this last question or the answer.

What's not to understand?

my assumption is that D1 was curious if this song may have peaked well after the release...so say, for example, it had some sort of revival in 1989 or something, thus the chart peak was years away from the release in 1982 (thus making it harder to nail down the song).

I could have just "no" to his question, but the song peaked in 1983 so I thought I would add that info so you folks were not chasing your tails on his possible theory (which was a legit idea/thought).

When I go to the billboard r&b website, I can only see the #1 song when I scroll from week to week. They want me to subscribe in order to see the full chart. Is everyone else seeing the same thing?

I thought you were asking a question we already knew the answer to. Didn't think about it only reaching the top 10 in another year. But also you didn't qualify which top 10, which I interpreted as meaning the main Billboard top 100 chart.

maybe try playback fm top 100 R and B 1983......

I can only find the yearly not weekly.

I just assumed it would be clear what top 10 I was referring to since we already knew it never reached the top 40 on the main chart.

yeah... that may be a problem

but if you can't get that level of detail, it is still on both of these

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/goldwax31...

https://playback.fm/charts/rnb/1983

I guess it was to the person that mattered. 😁

u folks have enough info to solve I am guessing.. or, if no interest someone can start another game

Yeah, I went through that list a couple of times and found nothing that fit. Not sure where I'm going wrong.

I hope I did not lead any of you astray with a wrong answer..

A few notes about the song.

I first heard the song at a nightclub/disco in Messena , New York in 1983. I was training in Cornwall, Ontario and a bunch of us took a cross border trip on a Saturday night into Messena. The DJ played that song and I was disappointed that my wife was not with me (she was in Edmonton while I was in Cornwall months). She loved to dance and I was sad….. So, I never forgot the song..

Some notes (from Wiki)

It was Indeep’s only hit
It should have got more top 40 play if not for the anti-disco movement.
It peaked at #2 in the US Billboard Hot Dance Club list
It peaked at 13 on UK singles list
It got well into the top 10 on main charts in several Euro countries (#1 in Greece, #2 Belgium, #2 Netherlands)

Rolling Stone magazine declared the song "one of the greatest songs ever written about being a girl, listening to the radio, or any combination of the two.”

Seems like quite an exaggeration to me, but does speak to the fact it was a top song.

I have heard of this song before but I'm pretty sure I had never heard it.
I'm guessing that in the US it was not played significantly outside of nightclubs. Of course if it was played on black radio stations I wouldn't have heard it either.

Ah yeah, I can see why I missed it. I was only looking at songs that the site had down as being released in 1982, and that song said 1983. Not a fault of yours since the wiki page says 1982, but I wasn't really in the mood to cross reference dozens of songs with wiki lol.

Yeah.. also this...

17. The song charted (regarding Q14,15 and 16) in 1983

I think it was a late 1982 release that peaked in early 1983