{"id":21720,"date":"2024-09-02T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21720"},"modified":"2025-01-05T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T22:07:44","slug":"fifty-years-of-music-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/fifty-years-of-music-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Of Music \u2013 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fifty years ago, I made my first appeared on the Earth.\u00a0 In celebration, we are going to take a look at the year-end\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100 singles chart for each year of my life and see what songs resonated with me at the time and if they continue to do so to this day.<\/p>\n

We continue our look back at the music of my lifetime with 2006, the year I celebrated my 32nd birthday.\u00a0 A mere eleven of these songs remain familiar to me today, with just three of them appearing in my collection in one way or another.<\/p>\n

#76: Rascal Flatts \u2013 Life is a Highway<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

A cover of the Tom Cochrane classic for the Cars<\/em> soundtrack, it peaked at #7.<\/p>\n

#71: Bon Jovi \u2013 Who Says You Can’t Go Home<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

The band’s highest charting song of the decade, it reached #23.<\/p>\n

#42: Black Eyed Peas \u2013 My Humps<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 26 plays<\/p>\n

Dismissed as a puerile form of sexual titillation by some critics, it spent six weeks at #3 while spending over nine months on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

#38: Nickelback \u2013 Photograph<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

The band’s third top ten hit, it went to #2.<\/p>\n

#34: Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx \u2013 Gold Digger<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 17 plays<\/p>\n

Featuring a sample of a Ray Charles song from 1956, it became West’s first #1, spending ten weeks atop the Hot 100.<\/p>\n

#23: Red Hot Chili Peppers \u2013 Dani California<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

The band’s third top ten hit, it topped out at #6 and won two Grammys.<\/p>\n

#9: Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland \u2013 SexyBack<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

The lead single from his sophomore effort, it spent seven weeks at #1.<\/p>\n

#7: Gnarls Barkley \u2013 Crazy<\/em>
\niTunes stats: 27 plays<\/p>\n

Spending seven weeks at #2, the group’s debut single was the first track of the year to hit #2 and not rise to the top of the charts.<\/p>\n

#5: Shakira featuring Wycleaf Jean \u2013 Hips Don’t Lie<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

Shakira’s first chart topper, it spent two weeks at #1 in the summer.<\/p>\n

#4: James Blunt \u2013 You’re Beautiful<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

Spending a single week atop the Hot 100, it was the first non-hip hop\/R&B track or American Idol song to reach #1 since 2001.<\/p>\n

#1: Daniel Powter \u2013 Bad Day<\/em>
\niTunes stats: N\/A<\/p>\n

It spent five weeks atop the Hot 100 in the spring of 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifty years ago, I made my first appeared on the Earth.\u00a0 In celebration, we are going to take a look at the year-end\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100 singles chart for each year of my life and see what songs resonated with me at the time and if they continue to do so to this day. We continue our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[746,98,564,11567,11571,433,2896,11570,11562,2718,170,11531,11566,6401,438,440,11568,1322,11569],"class_list":["post-21720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-billboard","tag-black-eyed-peas","tag-bon-jovi","tag-cars","tag-daniel-powter","tag-gnarls-barkley","tag-grammys","tag-james-blunt","tag-jamie-foxx","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-kanye-west","tag-nickelback","tag-rascal-flatts","tag-ray-charles","tag-red-hot-chili-peppers","tag-shakira","tag-timbaland","tag-tom-cochrane","tag-wycleaf-jean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21799,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21720\/revisions\/21799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}