When legends like Peabo Bryson die, it makes me realize that we do not have that caliber a singer anymore. You had Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross, Freddie Jackson, Peabo Bryson, El DeBarge and countless others running around at the same time we will never have that again.
#1 Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Summer in:
1998: The Boy Is Mine
1999: Genie In A Bottle
2000: Bent
2001: U Remind Me
2002: Hot In Herre
2003: Crazy In Love
2004: Confessions Part II
2005: We Belong Together
2006: Promiscuous
2007: Umbrella
2008: I Kissed a Girl
2009: I Gotta Feeling
2010: California Gurls
2011: Party Rock Anthem
2012: Call Me Maybe
2013: Blurred Lines
2014: Fancy
2015: Cheerleader
2016: One Dance
2017: Despacito
2018: In My Feelings
2019: Old Town Road
2020: ROCKSTAR
2021: Butter
2022: As It Was
2023: Last Night
2024: I Had Some Help
2025: Ordinary
2026: TBD
Michael Jackson becomes the first and only act in history to earn a new Hot 100 hit in each of the last six consecutive decades.
1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.