Create a playlist of the hit songs and albums for all your birthdays (UK charts)

customer adventures, music, How To — by TDavid @ 11:02 am PST

With the everyhit.com date engine you can find out what songs were #1 on your birthday.

Then you can go a step further and display the hit songs and/or albums for every birthday through history and create the ultimate birthday hit song playlist. For somebody who loves music, this could make a great birthday present. The only catch is that they would need to be born on/after 1952, as that was the date the hits charts were established. Just buy the songs via your favorite online music service and put them on a CD or a thumbdrive and wrap with a bow.

Speaking of birthdays, it is our middle son’s birthday today. He turns 15. Ahh, remember those days? Here is his single hits breakdown for his birthday:

1991 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was Bryan Adams - “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”
1992 On your 1st birthday Erasure - “Abba-Esque (EP)”
1993 On your 2nd birthday Gabrielle - “Dreams”
1994 On your 3rd birthday Wet Wet Wet - “Love Is All Around”
1995 On your 4th birthday The Outhere Brothers - “Boom Boom Boom”
1996 On your 5th birthday The Fugees - “Killing Me Softly”
1997 On your 6th birthday Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - “I’ll Be Missing You”
1998 On your 7th birthday Billie - “Because We Want To”
1999 On your 8th birthday A.T.B. - “9pm (Till I Come)”
2000 On your 9th birthday Eminem - “The Real Slim Shady”
2001 On your 10th birthday Roger Sanchez - “Another Chance”
2002 On your 11th birthday Elvis vs JXL - “A Little Less Conversation”
2003 On your 12th birthday Beyonce - “Crazy In Love”
2004 On your 13th birthday Usher - “Burn”
2005 On your 14th birthday 2Pac featuring Elton John - “Ghetto Gospel”
2006 On your 15th birthday Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - “Hips Don’t Lie”

Here are the hits from my birthday years, and yes I realize this puts my birthday on the web (no biggie, I’ve shared this in countless web profiles):

1968 On your birthdate the No. 1 single was Mary Hopkin - “Those Were The Days”
1969 On your 1st birthday Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Bad Moon Rising”
1970 On your 2nd birthday Freda Payne - “Band Of Gold”
1971 On your 3rd birthday The Tams - “Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me”
1972 On your 4th birthday David Cassidy - “How Can I Be Sure”
1973 On your 5th birthday The Simon Park Orchestra - “Eye Level”
1974 On your 6th birthday Carl Douglas - “Kung Fu Fighting”
1975 On your 7th birthday Rod Stewart - “Sailing”
1976 On your 8th birthday Abba - “Dancing Queen”
1977 On your 9th birthday Elvis Presley - “Way Down”
1978 On your 10th birthday John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - “Summer Nights”
1979 On your 11th birthday The Police - “Message In A Bottle”
1980 On your 12th birthday The Police - “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”
1981 On your 13th birthday Adam & The Ants - “Prince Charming”
1982 On your 14th birthday Musical Youth - “Pass The Dutchie”
1983 On your 15th birthday Culture Club - “Karma Chameleon”
1984 On your 16th birthday Stevie Wonder - “I Just Called To Say I Love You”
1985 On your 17th birthday Midge Ure - “If I Was”
1986 On your 18th birthday Communards - “Don’t Leave Me This Way”
1987 On your 19th birthday MARRS - “Pump Up The Volume”
1988 On your 20th birthday The Hollies - “He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother”
1989 On your 21st birthday Black Box - “Ride On Time”
1990 On your 22nd birthday Maria McKee - “Show Me Heaven”
1991 On your 23rd birthday Bryan Adams - “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”
1992 On your 24th birthday The Shamen - “Ebeneezer Goode”
1993 On your 25th birthday Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - “Boom! Shake The Room”
1994 On your 26th birthday Whigfield - “Saturday Night”
1995 On your 27th birthday Simply Red - “Fairground”
1996 On your 28th birthday Deep Blue Something - “Breakfast At Tiffanys”
1997 On your 29th birthday Elton John - “Candle In The Wind ‘97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight”
1998 On your 30th birthday B*witched - “Rollercoaster”
1999 On your 31st birthday Eiffel 65 - “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”
2000 On your 32nd birthday Mariah Carey & Westlife - “Against All Odds”
2001 On your 33rd birthday Kylie Minogue - “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”
2002 On your 34th birthday Will Young & Gareth Gates - “The Long And Winding Road / Suspicious Minds”
2003 On your 35th birthday Black Eyes Peas - “Where Is The Love?”
2004 On your 36th birthday Eric Prydz - “Call On Me”
2005 On your 37th birthday Pussycat Dolls featuring Busta Rhymes - “Don’t Cha”

I’m not sure about some of these hits but oh yeah: everybody was Kung Fu fighting.

A gift idea opportunity for online music stores
The online music services should include a function/feature like this and promote and promote as a birthday gift idea for music fans. That is assuming all these tracks are available online (some aren’t yet, like the Beatles) but they could put links to buy the CDs (with affiliate links) for the CDs containing any missing songs.

Too fun, thanks Digg.

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Create a playlist of the hit songs and albums for all your birthdays (UK charts)

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