The Bee Gees didn’t like that title, and they tried to get him to change it to Night Fever, since they already had the song. Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees manager and label boss who produced Saturday Night Fever, originally wanted to use just plain Saturday Night as the title. “Night Fever,” the longest-reigning #1 hit of 1978, was a strong enough single that a major motion picture had to change its marketing plans. March of 1978 was when that wave welled up and crested. It’s a 7.) The Beatles’ achievement is still totally singular in pop-chart history, but the Bee Gees had their own perfect storm. (One was baby brother Andy Gibb’s previous chart-topper “ (Love Is) Thicker Than Water.” The other was Samantha Sang’s “ Emotion,” which peaked at #3. If you include the songs that the Gibb brothers wrote and produced, the Bee Gees were responsible for four songs in the top five that week. The Bee Gees were the first post-Beatles artists to seize #1 and #2 at the same time. Those two songs held down the top two spots for five weeks in a row. The week that the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” hit #1, “ Stayin’ Alive” was the #2 song in America. But in March of 1978, the Bee Gees came closer than anyone else, ever. It’s the only time a single artist had ever occupied the entire top five. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.įor one week in April of 1964, the top five singles on the Billboard Hot 100 were all Beatles songs.
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