Last Pop Broadway hit song

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Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/25/09 at 11:18pm

What was the last Broadway song that was a hit on the pop charts? Of course not counting the Disney movie songs. I cant personally think of any since maybe "One Night in Bangkok" from Chess.

#2

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 12:25am

Donny Osmond's version of "This is the Moment" hit #64.
Cite.

#3

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 12:27am

Woops, sorry, I just realized that's for the whole album, not the song. Back to the drawing board!

#4

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 1:13am

The last #1 hit on the US charts was Louis Armstrong's version of "Hello, Dolly!"

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#5

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 1:41am

Lol...ok Ill accept even one that hit in the top 50 or so songs...and yes I mean songs not albums. I just cant remember ANY in the last 20 years that got any significant radio play.

#6

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 5:48am

Did "Seasons of Love" make the charts?

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#7

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 6:26am

Humm...it reached #33 in 2005(???). I was thinking that was the only possible one lately, though I was expecting for it to be in the 90's...oops wait that was the Movie release...ok thats CHEATING! Im still going with Bangkok.And before that...Memory? Thatd be 1981 and without a doubt a huge hit.

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 6:50am

Did Memory or Bangkok grace the US charts?

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#9

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 6:56am

How about Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life" (#15 on Billboard's Hot 100) and Gwen Stefani's "Rich Girl" (#7 on Billboard's Hot 100)?

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#10

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 7:15am

Wicked Made it and So did some songs from rent.

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 9:21am

When did Wicked make the pop charts?

And, can we really consider Jay-Z or Stefani? It was largely sampling that they did.

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#12

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 9:23am

No Matter What from Whistle Down The Wind was pretty popular by Boyzone

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#13

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 9:35am

This should fit in somewhere ........ " If He Came Into My Life Today "

from " Mame "

#14

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 9:38am

Adding to Smaxie's list, Gwen Stefani's "Wind It Up," which draws from "Lonely Goatherd."

#15

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 9:40am

Also, " WHAT I DID FOR LOVE " Chorus Line

#16

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 10:02am

When did "What I Did For Love" make the pop charts?

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#17

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Posted: 3/26/09 at 10:07am

In the 70's when it first opened .... many people recorded it, artists in that era
of course.

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#18

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 10:58am

When the Evita movie came out I believe "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" was on the pop charts and got a ton of radio play.

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#19

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 11:04am

Didn't Barbara Streisand's version of "Somewhere" from her Broadway Album hit the pop charts?

#20

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 11:39am

I could have sworn Someone Like You from Jekyll and Hyde hit the charts, but I'm not entirely sure. No Matter What was definitely on the UK charts, but I don't know about the US. Did Boyzone ever hit the US charts at all?

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#21

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 12:46pm

"Seasons of Love" from the movie soundtrack went to #33 in 2005

Wow, it does seem like the movie has been out over 3 yrs.

#22

re: Last Pop Broadway hit song

Posted: 3/26/09 at 2:38pm

American Idol - David Cook released
"The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera.

It went to #77 in the Hot 100 in spring 2008.