This Week in Billboard Chart History: In 1997, 'Wannabe' Spiced Up the Hot 100 at No. 1 — billboard.com

Your weekly recap celebrating significant milestones from more than seven decades of Billboard chart history Feb. 16, 1985 After arriving with the uptempo Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," Wham! ruled again with ballad "Careless Whisper," 30 years ago today. Feb. 17, 1996 The Beatles topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart ... as part of a title, anyway: "Bigger Than the Beatles," by Joe Diffie, became the chart's fab new No. 1. (The song's chorus also namechecks the Rolling Stones and Eagles.)

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