Paul Anka - Wikipedia

Canadian-American singer and actor (born 1941)

Paul AnkaOC
Anka performing at Caesars Windsor Hotel in Windsor, Ontario in May 2024
Born	Paul Albert Anka (1941-07-30) July 30, 1941 (age 84)Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Citizenship	Canada United States
Occupations	Singer songwriter actor
Years active	1955–present
Spouses	Anne de Zogheb ​ ​(m. 1963; div. 2001)​ Anna Åberg ​ ​(m. 2008; div. 2010)​ Lisa Pemberton ​ ​(m. 2016; div. 2020)​
Children	6
Relatives	Jason Bateman (son-in-law)
Musical career
Genres	Pop soft rock jazz doo-wop rock and roll swing
Labels	ABC-Paramount Recordst EMI Columbia Artone RCA Victor United Artists Records Columbia Records Buddah Records Warner Bros. Records
Musical artist
Website	paulanka.com

Paul Albert Anka OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter, and actor. His songs include "Diana", "You Are My Destiny", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby".

Anka also wrote the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; one of Tom Jones' biggest hits, "She's a Lady"; and the English lyrics to Claude François and Jacques Revaux's music for Frank Sinatra's signature song "My Way", which has been recorded by many artists including Elvis Presley. He co-wrote three songs with Michael Jackson: "This Is It" (originally titled "I Never Heard"),[1] "Love Never Felt So Good", and "Don't Matter to Me", which became posthumous hits for Jackson in 2009, 2014, and 2018, respectively.

Early life

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Paul Albert Anka was born in Ottawa, Ontario to Camelia (née Tannis) and Andrew Emile "Andy" Anka Sr., who owned a restaurant called the Locanda.[2] According to Paul's autobiography, My Way, both of his parents were of Lebanese Christian descent; however, he also said in his autobiography that his ancestors came from Bab Tuma, in Syria.[3][4] His father came to Canada from Damascus, Syria and his mother was an immigrant from Lebanon.[5][6] His mother died when he was 18.[7]

Paul Anka briefly studied piano under Winifred Rees[8] [9] and sang with the St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral choir under the direction of Frederick Karam, with whom he studied music theory in Ottawa.[10] He attended Fisher Park High School in the city, where he was part of a vocal trio called the Bobby Soxers.[11][12]

Career

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Early success

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Anka recorded his first single, "I Confess", when he was 14. In 1956, with $100 given to him by his uncle, he went to Manhattan, New York, where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC Records, singing what was widely believed to be a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter. In an interview with Terry Gross of NPR in 2005, he said that it was to a girl at his church whom he hardly knew.[13] The resulting song "Diana" brought Anka stardom as it went to No. 1 on the Canadian and U.S. music charts.[14] "Diana" is one of the best selling singles ever by a Canadian recording artist.[15] He followed up with four songs which made it into the Top 20 in 1958,[16] including "It's Time to Cry", which reached No. 4 and "(All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings", which was No. 15, making him (at 17) one of the biggest teen idols of the time. He toured Britain and Australia with Buddy Holly. Anka also wrote "It Doesn't Matter Anymore"–a song written for Holly, which Holly recorded just before he died in 1959. Shortly afterward Anka said:

"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" has a tragic irony about it now, but at least it will help look after Buddy Holly's family. I'm giving my composer's royalty to his widow – it's the least I can do.[17]

Anka composed the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (reworked in 1962 from a song Anka wrote earlier called "Toot Sweet"; it had been rewritten with lyrics and recorded by Annette Funicello in 1959 as "It's Really Love").[18] He wrote "Teddy" – a Top 20 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. Anka wrote the English lyrics to "My Way", Frank Sinatra's signature song (originally the French song "Comme d'habitude"). In the 1960s, Anka began acting in motion pictures as well as writing songs for them, most notably the theme for the hit film The Longest Day (which also was the official march of the Canadian Airborne Regiment), in which he made a cameo appearance as a U.S. Army Ranger. For his film work he wrote and recorded one of his greatest hits "Lonely Boy". He also wrote and recorded "My Home Town", which was a No. 8 pop hit for him the same year. He then became one of the first pop singers to perform at casinos in Las Vegas. In 1960, he appeared twice as himself in NBC's short-lived crime drama Dan Raven.

In 1963, Anka purchased the rights and ownership of his ABC-Paramount catalog and re-recorded his earlier hits for RCA Victor, which he had joined in 1960.[19]

1970s breakthrough and chart comebacks

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Frustrated after more than ten years without a top 25 hit record, Anka switched labels again, which marked a turning point in his career. This time he signed with United Artists and in 1974 teamed up with Odia Coates to record the No. 1 hit, "(You're) Having My Baby", exposing Anka to a new generation of fans and proving his staying power among his original fan base that was now maturing.[20]

Anka also wrote five songs which were included on an album by Don Goodwin.[21]

Anka and Coates recorded three more duets that made it into the Top 20: "One Man Woman/One Woman Man" (No. 7), "I Don't Like to Sleep Alone" (No. 8), and the No. 15 duet "(I Believe) There's Nothing Stronger Than Our Love". In 1975, he recorded a jingle for Kodak written by Bill Lane (lyrics) and Roger Nichols (melody) called "Times of Your Life". It became so popular Anka recorded it as a full song, which peaked at No. 7 in the US pop chart in 1976. The follow-up was another hit that Anka wrote for Sinatra, "Anytime (I'll Be There)", peaking at No. 33. Anka's last Top 40 hit in the US was in the summer of 1983: "Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes",[20] which included backing vocals from then-Chicago frontman Peter Cetera; it hit No. 2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary chart.[22]

1990s comeback

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Anka's 1998 album A Body of Work was his first new U.S. studio release since Walk a Fine Line in 1983; vocalists and performers included Celine Dion, Kenny G, Patti LaBelle, and Skyler Jett. The album included a new version of "Hold Me 'Til the Morning Comes", once again performed with Peter Cetera. In 2005, Anka released an album of big-band arrangements of contemporary Rock songs titled, Rock Swings; the album provided a mainstream comeback of sorts that saw Anka awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.

On October 12, 2009, Anka stated that Michael Jackson's new release titled "This Is It" was a collaborative effort between the two in 1980. According to Anka, after recording the song, Jackson decided not to use it and the tune was then recorded and released by Sa-Fire. After Anka threatened to sue for credit and a share of royalties, the administrators of Jackson's estate granted Anka 50% of the copyright.[23] An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1980 session, "Love Never Felt So Good", was discovered shortly thereafter. His album Songs of December charted at No. 58 in Canada in November 2011.[24]

Italy

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Anka collaborated with a number of Italian musicians, including composer/director Ennio Morricone, singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti, and lyricist Mogol. His official discography reports nine singles released by RCA Italiana,[25] but the Italian charts list at least six other songs he interpreted or recorded in Italian. His top hit was "Ogni giorno" which scored No. 1 in 1962, followed by "Piangerò per te" and "Ogni volta", which reached both No. 2, in 1963 and 1964. "Ogni volta" ("Every Time") was sung by Anka during the Festival di Sanremo of 1964 and then sold more than one million copies in Italy alone; it was also awarded a gold disc.[26]

Anka returned to Sanremo in 1968 with "La farfalla impazzita" by Battisti-Mogol. On that occasion, the same title was interpreted by Italian crooner Johnny Dorelli. The pair of singers, however, were eliminated before the final stage of the musical contest.[citation needed] In 2006, he recorded a duet with 1960s Italian hitmaker Adriano Celentano, a new cover of "Diana", with Italian lyrics by Celentano-Mogol and with singer-songwriter Alex Britti on the guitar.[27] The song hit No. 3.

Finland

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Anka has been popular in Finland since the beginning of his career. He performed in Helsinki's Linnanmäki in 1959,[28][29] in Lappeenranta in 1989, at the Pori Jazz Festival in Pori on 19 July 2007 and in 2012, and in Tampere three times on 6 August 2008 and on 9 and 10 August 2009. He also appeared in the Las Vegas scene in the 1991 Finnish film Prince of the Hit Parade (Iskelmäprinssi), directed by Juha Tapaninen.[30] At the end of the film there is an archive footage of Anka's performance in Linnanmäki. As background music, Anka performs his song "How Long" in the film.

Other countries

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With less success than in Italy and Finland, Anka tried the French market as well, with his first song being "Comme Avant"[25] with Mireille Mathieu. In 1964, he released an album titled Paul Anka à Paris; the six tracks on side B were sung in French. A single release in Japanese ("Kokoro no Sasae"/"Shiawase e no Tabiji") is also reported on his discography. In 1993, he recorded a duet with Filipino singer Regine Velasquez titled "It's Hard to Say Goodbye", included on her album Reason Enough. This song was re-recorded several years later by Anka and Celine Dion and was included on his album A Body of Work.[20][31]

Anka has performed four times in Israel,[32] and in 2019 rejected pleas that he boycott the country.[33]

Acting career

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Anka appeared in 1958's "Let's Rock", where he sang and appeared in a scene signing autographs. His first major-film acting role was in a cameo as an army private in The Longest Day (1962). He also composed the title song to the movie. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he starred in such teen exploitation films as Girls Town (1959) and Look in Any Window (1961), in which he played a peeping tom. He later played an Elvis-hating casino pit manager in 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) and a yacht broker in Captain Ron (1992). He guest-starred as a murder suspect in one of the Perry Mason Made-for-TV movies, The Case of the Maligned Mobster (1991). He made guest appearances as himself in the episode "Red's Last Day" on That '70s Show and in "The Real Paul Anka" episode of Gilmore Girls. He made several appearances on the NBC TV series Las Vegas. In 2016, he made another guest appearance as himself in the "Spring" episode of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a revival of the original show.[34]

Other film and television appearances

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Anka was the subject of the 1962 NFB documentary Lonely Boy, considered a classic work of cinéma vérité.[35] He wrote and performed songs in the 1985 Canadian children's Christmas cartoon George and the Christmas Star. He appeared on The Simpsons season 7 episode Treehouse of Horror VI, Attack of the 50 Ft Eyesore, singing a song with Lisa in October 1995. In American Idol's seasons 2 and 3, he made a special appearance and sang an adapted version of "My Way" that mocked the format of the show as well as participants, judges, and the host. The performance was praised as one of the best moments of the show. He also played the role of Buddy Maus in Season 2 Episode 14 "The Betrayal" of the TV show Kojak.

Anka appeared in an episode of The Morecambe & Wise Show in 1970, singing his own lyrics 'My Way'.[36] The show was broadcast again on BBC2 on Christmas Day 2021, after the tape recording-believed lost - was found.[37] Anka appeared as himself in the American sitcom That 70s Show in season 2, episode 2 "Red’s Last Day".[38]

On Gilmore Girls, Lorelai Gilmore named her Polish Lowland Sheepdog after Anka.[39] Series co-creator Daniel Palladino chose the name after hearing the Rock Swings album at a coffeehouse.[40] Both Paul Ankas were featured in a dream sequence Lorelai describes to her daughter Rory in the cold open to "The Real Paul Anka", the eighteenth episode of Season 6.[41][42] Anka competed in season four of The Masked Singer as "Broccoli". He finished in 7th place exiting during the Group C finals.[43]

Personal life

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Anka was married to Anne de Zogheb, the half-English and half-Lebanese[44] daughter of Lebanese diplomat Charles de Zogheb, from February 16, 1963 to 2001.[45] The couple met in 1962 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she was a fashion model on assignment and under contract to the Eileen Ford Agency. Zogheb, brought up in Egypt,[46] is of Lebanese, English, Dutch, French, German, and Greek[46] descent. The couple married the following year in a ceremony at Paris-Orly Airport. Through his daughter Amanda, he is the father-in-law of Jason Bateman, an actor.[47] On September 6, 1990, Anka became a naturalized citizen of the United States.[48]

In 2008, Anka married his personal trainer, Anna Åberg, in Sardinia, Italy.[49] They divorced in 2010, and he has full custody of their son. Anna was featured in the Swedish TV3 show Svenska Hollywoodfruar (Swedish Hollywood Wives). Paul Anka's autobiography, My Way, co-written with David Dalton, was published in 2013.[50]

In October 2016, Anka and Lisa Pemberton married in Beverly Hills, California.[51] They divorced in 2020.[52]

Awards and honours

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In 1972, a street in Ottawa was named Paul Anka Drive.[53] In 1981, the Ottawa City Council named August 26 as "Paul Anka Day" to celebrate his quarter-century in show business.[54]

In 2004, he was appointed an Officer Of The Order of Canada

In popular culture

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In the mid-1980s,[55] Anka was secretly recorded while launching a tirade against his crew and band members, berating them for behavior that he considered unprofessional. When asked about it on the interview program Fresh Air, he referred to the person who did the recording as a "snake we later fired". The recording became widely known after being uploaded to the internet around 2004, and a number of quotes from it became famous, including "The guys get shirts!"; "Don't make a maniac out of me!"; and "Slice like a __ hammer!"[56] Some of the quotes were reproduced by Al Pacino's character in the 2007 film Ocean's Thirteen.[55] In the TV show Gilmore Girls, Lorelai Gilmore names her dog Paul Anka.[57] He is also briefly mentioned in Finnish road movie Rumble, as the father figure of the movie's main character group mentions "being with Paul Anka in Linnanmäki amusement park".

Business ventures

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In 2012, Anka co-founded the holographic tech startup, ARHT Media.[58] He is a member of ARHT Media's Board of Advisors, alongside businessman Kevin O'Leary and former prime minister Brian Mulroney until Mulroney's death in February, 2024.[59]

Discography

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Albums

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Year	Title	Label	Format	US[60]	Certifications
1958	Paul Anka	ABC Paramount	LP	-
1959	My Heart Sings	ABC Paramount	CD, LP	-	-
1960	Swings for Young Lovers	ABC Paramount	CD, LP	-	-
1961	It's Christmas Everywhere	ABC Paramount	LP	-	-
1962	Young, Alive and in Love!	RCA Victor	LP	61	-
1962	Let's Sit This One Out	RCA Victor	LP	137	-
1963	15 Songs I Wish I'd Written	RCA Victor	LP	-	-
1963	3 Great Guys (Paul Anka, Sam Cooke and Neil Sedaka)	RCA Victor	LP	-	-
1963	Our Man Around the World	RCA Victor	LP	-	-
1963	Italiano	RCA Victor	LP	-	-
1964	A Casa Nostra	RCA Victor	LP	-	-
1968	Goodnight My Love	RCA Victor	LP	101	-
1969	Life Goes On	RCA Victor	LP	194	-
1972	Paul Anka	Buddah Records	CD, LP	188	-
1972	Jubilation	Buddah	CD, LP	192	-
1974	Anka	United Artists Records	CD, LP	9	Gold
1975	Feelings	United Artists	CD, LP	36	-
1975	Times of Your Life (nine of 10 cuts from previous two albums)	United Artists	LP	22	Gold
1976	The Painter	United Artists	CD, LP	85	-
1977	The Music Man	United Artists	LP	195	-
1978	Listen to Your Heart	RCA Victor	CD, LP	179	-
1979	Headlines	RCA Victor	CD, LP	-	-
1981	Both Sides of Love	RCA Victor	LP	171	-
1983	Walk a Fine Line	Columbia Records	CD, LP	156	-
1987	Freedom for the World (titled Freedom in Canada)	A&M Records	CD, LP	-	-
1989	Somebody Loves You	Polydor Records	CD	-	-
1996	Amigos (Duets in Spanish)	Sony	CD	-	-
2005	Rock Swings	Verve Records	CD	120 (9 UK)	-
2007	Classic Songs, My Way	Decca Records	CD	139	-
2011	Songs of December	Decca	CD	-	-
2013	Duets	Sony	CD	95	-
2021	Making Memories	Paul Anka Productions, Greenhill	CD, Album, Stereo	-	-
2022	Sessions	Paul Anka Productions, Greenhill	CD, Album, Stereo	-	-

Filmography

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Let's Rock	Himself
1959	Verboten!	Self, behind opening credits	Sang "Verboten!"
1959	Girls Town	Jimmy Parlow	Wrote and Sang "Lonely Boy"
1960	The Private Lives of Adam & Eve	Pinkie Parker	Wrote and Sung "Adam and Eve"
1961	Look in Any Window	Craig Fowler
1961	The Seasons of Youth	Self	TV documentary
1961	Make Room for Daddy	Paul Pryor	Season 8, episode 25: "Old Man Danny"
1962	The Longest Day	U.S. Army Ranger
1964	Valentine's Day	Gerald Larson	TV series
1965	The Red Skelton Hour	Bonnie Prince Gorgeous	Episode 25: "Nuts of the Round Table"
1974	Kojak	Buddy Maus	Season 2, episode 14: "The Betrayal"
1977	Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me	Self	TV special
1977	Elvis in Concert	No role – Soundtrack #12: My Way written by Paul Anka	TV special
1982	The Paul Anka Show	Host	TV series
1983	The Fall Guy	Vic Madison	Season 3, episode 7: "Dirty Laundry"
1987	Crime Story	Anthony 'Tony' Dio	Season 1, episode 20: "Top of the World"
1991	Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster	Nick Angel	TV movie
1991	Prince of the Hit Parade	Himself
1992	Captain Ron	Yacht Broker Donaldson
1993	Ordinary Magic	Joey Dean
1994	Shake, Rattle and Rock!	Himself	TV movie; Special appearance
1995	The Simpsons	Himself (voice)	Season 7, episode 6: "Treehouse of Horror VI
1996	Mad Dog Time	Danny Marks
1999	That '70s Show	Himself	Season 2, episode 2: "Red's Last Day"
2001	3000 Miles to Graceland	Pit Boss #1
2005	Las Vegas	Himself	Season 3, episode 2: "Fake the Money and Run"
2006	Gilmore Girls	Himself	Season 6, episode 18: "The Real Paul Anka"
2016	Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life	Himself	Miniseries, episode 2: "Spring"
2020	The Masked Singer	Broccoli	Season 4; Eliminated in episode 9
2020	Jay Sebring....Cutting to the Truth	Himself	Documentary
2024	Times Square Ball	Himself	Sang John Lennon’s Imagine before the ball drop

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• 36 People; November 7, 2016, p. 13

External links

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v t e Paul Anka
Discography
Albums	Paul Anka 3 Great Guys 30th Anniversary Collection Amigos Rock Swings Classic Songs, My Way
Singles	"Diana" "You Are My Destiny" "Crazy Love" "Lonely Boy" "Put Your Head on My Shoulder" "It's Time to Cry" "Puppy Love" "My Home Town" "Hello Young Lovers" "In the Still of the Night" "Do I Love You" "(You're) Having My Baby" "One Man Woman/One Woman Man" "I Don't Like to Sleep Alone" "Times of Your Life" "Hold Me 'Til the Mornin' Comes"
Songs	"Send for Me" "Everything's Been Changed" "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" "Johnny's Theme" "My Way" "She's a Lady" "This Is It" "(I'm Watching) Every Little Move You Make"
Related articles	Anna Åberg Lonely Boy

v t e Canadian Music Hall of Fame
1978-1990	Guy Lombardo (1978) Oscar Peterson (1978) Hank Snow (1979) Paul Anka (1980) Joni Mitchell (1981) Neil Young (1982) Glenn Gould (1983) The Crew-Cuts (1984) The Diamonds (1984) The Four Lads (1984) Wilf Carter (1985) Gordon Lightfoot (1986) The Guess Who (1987) No inductee (1988) The Band (1989) Maureen Forrester (1990)
1990-2000	Leonard Cohen (1991) Ian & Sylvia (1992) Anne Murray (1993) Rush (1994) Buffy Sainte-Marie (1995) David Clayton-Thomas (1996) Denny Doherty (1996) John Kay (1996) Domenic Troiano (1996) Zal Yanovsky (1996) Gil Evans (1997) Lenny Breau (1997) Maynard Ferguson (1997) Moe Koffman (1997) Rob McConnell (1997) David Foster (1998) Luc Plamondon (1999) Bruce Fairbairn (2000)
2001-2010	Bruce Cockburn (2001) Daniel Lanois (2002) Tom Cochrane (2003) Bob Ezrin (2004) The Tragically Hip (2005) Bryan Adams (2006) Bob Rock (2007) Triumph (2008) Loverboy (2009) April Wine (2010)
2011-2020	Shania Twain (2011) Blue Rodeo (2012) k.d. lang (2013) Bachman–Turner Overdrive (2014) Alanis Morissette (2015) Burton Cummings (2016) Sarah McLachlan (2017) Barenaked Ladies (2018) Steven Page (2018) Corey Hart (2019) Andy Kim (2019) Bobby Curtola (2019) Chilliwack (2019) Cowboy Junkies (2019) No inductee (2020)
2021-2030	Jann Arden (2021) Deborah Cox (2022) Nickelback (2023) Terri Clark (2023) Trooper (2023) Oliver Jones (2023) Diane Dufresne (2023) Maestro Fresh Wes (2024)

v t e Best-selling singles by year in the United Kingdom
1950s	1952: "Here in My Heart" – Al Martino 1953: "I Believe" – Frankie Laine 1954: "Secret Love" – Doris Day 1955: "Rose Marie" – Slim Whitman 1956: "I'll Be Home" – Pat Boone 1957: "Diana" – Paul Anka 1958: "Jailhouse Rock" – Elvis Presley 1959: "Living Doll" – Cliff Richard (UK)
1960s	1960: "It's Now or Never" – Elvis Presley 1961: "Wooden Heart" – Elvis Presley 1962: "I Remember You" – Frank Ifield (UK) 1963: "She Loves You" – The Beatles (UK) 1964: "Can't Buy Me Love" – The Beatles (UK) 1965: "Tears" – Ken Dodd (UK) 1966: "Green, Green Grass of Home" – Tom Jones (UK) 1967: "Release Me" – Engelbert Humperdinck (UK) 1968: "Hey Jude" – The Beatles (UK) 1969: "Sugar, Sugar" – The Archies
1970s	1970: "The Wonder of You" – Elvis Presley / "In the Summertime" – Mungo Jerry (UK) 1971: "My Sweet Lord" – George Harrison (UK) 1972: "Amazing Grace" – Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (UK) 1973: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" – Dawn featuring Tony Orlando 1974: "Tiger Feet" – Mud (UK) 1975: "Bye Bye Baby" – Bay City Rollers (UK) 1976: "Save Your Kisses for Me" – Brotherhood of Man (UK) 1977: "Mull of Kintyre" / "Girls' School" – Wings (UK) 1978: "Rivers of Babylon" / "Brown Girl in the Ring" – Boney M. 1979: "Bright Eyes" – Art Garfunkel
1980s	1980: "Don't Stand So Close to Me" – The Police (UK) 1981: "Tainted Love" – Soft Cell (UK) / "Don't You Want Me" – The Human League (UK) 1982: "Come On Eileen" – Dexys Midnight Runners (UK) 1983: "Karma Chameleon" – Culture Club (UK) 1984: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" – Band Aid (UK) 1985: "The Power of Love" – Jennifer Rush 1986: "Don't Leave Me This Way" – The Communards (UK) 1987: "Never Gonna Give You Up" – Rick Astley (UK) 1988: "Mistletoe and Wine" – Cliff Richard (UK) 1989: "Ride on Time" – Black Box
1990s	1990: "Unchained Melody" – The Righteous Brothers 1991: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Bryan Adams 1992: "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston 1993: "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf 1994: "Love Is All Around" – Wet Wet Wet (UK) 1995: "Unchained Melody" – Robson & Jerome (UK) 1996: "Killing Me Softly" – Fugees 1997: "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" / "Candle in the Wind 1997" – Elton John (UK) 1998: "Believe" – Cher 1999: "...Baby One More Time" – Britney Spears
2000s	2000: "Can We Fix It?" – Bob the Builder (UK) 2001: "It Wasn't Me" – Shaggy featuring Rikrok (UK) 2002: "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" – Will Young (UK) 2003: "Where Is the Love?" – Black Eyed Peas 2004: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" – Band Aid 20 (UK) 2005: "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" – Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay (UK) 2006: "Crazy" – Gnarls Barkley 2007: "Bleeding Love" – Leona Lewis (UK) 2008: "Hallelujah" – Alexandra Burke (UK) 2009: "Poker Face" – Lady Gaga
2010s	2010: "Love the Way You Lie" – Eminem featuring Rihanna 2011: "Someone like You" – Adele (UK) 2012: "Somebody That I Used to Know" – Gotye featuring Kimbra 2013: "Blurred Lines" – Robin Thicke featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams 2014: "Happy" – Pharrell Williams 2015: "Uptown Funk" – Mark Ronson (UK) featuring Bruno Mars 2016: "One Dance" – Drake featuring Wizkid and Kyla (UK) 2017: "Shape of You" – Ed Sheeran (UK) 2018: "One Kiss" – Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa (UK) 2019: "Someone You Loved" – Lewis Capaldi (UK)
2020s	2020: "Blinding Lights" – The Weeknd 2021: "Bad Habits" – Ed Sheeran (UK) 2022: "As It Was" – Harry Styles (UK) 2023: "Flowers" – Miley Cyrus 2024: "Stick Season" - Noah Kahan

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