![]() ![]() We've limited our list below specifically to songs with 'rain' in the title, but if we were to extend to weather themed songs, some of the big hits include Crowded House's 1992 Number 7 hit Weather With You, Rihanna's 10-week chart-topper Umbrella, and Blame It On The Weatherman by Irish girl group B*Witched. The first ever 'rain' themed song to reach the charts, Rain Rain Rain by Frankie Laine and The Four Lads, was a Top 10 hit, reaching Number 8 in 1954. The original re-entered the Top 40 at Number 31 in 2014 after becoming an unlikely protest song in the wake of a UKIP councillor's comments on gay marriage.Įlsewhere, other big 'rain' songs include Adele's Set Fire To The Rain, a Number 11 hit in 2011, and Kiss The Rain, a transatlantic one-hit wonder for British singer-songwriter Billie Myers in 1998, reaching Number 4. Geri Halliwell's cover - which featured in Bridget Jones's Diary - took it all the way to Number 1 in 2001. It's not the first time the timeless classic has appeared in the chart: the cast of Glee covered it in a mashup with Rihanna's Umbrella, reaching Number 22 in 2011, and a hi-energy rendition by Sheila and B Devotion reached Number 11 in 1978.Īnother popular 'rain' song is camp classic It's Raining Men, first released by The Weather Girls, where it reached Number 2 in 1984. Of those, just four have reached Number 1 the most recent is a cover of Singin' In The Rain by British producer Mint Royale, which topped the chart for two weeks in 2005. In the 68 years of the Official Singles Chart, 102 songs with 'Rain' in their title have charted inside the Top 40. This week sees UK rappers Aitch, AJ Tracey and Tay Keith score a Top 5 debut with their collaboration Rain, while Niall Horan has gone all-out on his weather-themed second album, called Heartbreak Weather. Given its mood-reflecting qualities (pathetic fallacy is the technical term), it's also a popular subject in songs. As well as reportedly checking the forecast eight times a week on average, it's also a fail-safe social prop for making small talk. So go make a cup of hot cocoa, slip on your coziest, warmest pair of socks, and prepare for a playlist that sounds like the inside of a snow globe.Obsession with the weather is a uniquely British phenomenon. They're the songs that you can listen to well past December, all the way through the end of February (at least) because they're about the winter season and not the holiday season. ![]() These are the songs that put you in that winter state of mind. These are songs that conjure up mental pictures of snow flurries and puffy coats and steaming cups of hot, soul-warming beverages. ![]() These are songs that make you immediately feel the need to curl up on the couch under a warm, cozy blanket because the weather is straight-up frigid. "What is a winter song?" you might be wondering. What's more, you might even get away with slyly replacing some holiday playlist airtime with another kind of season-specific music: Winter songs. But, even if you don't love Christmas-y classics like "Jingle Bells" and you'd rather be decked in the face than listen to another round of "Deck the Halls," you can still get into the seasonal spirit. Maybe you are firmly Team Christmas Music and love this phenomenon, but maybe you're.well, not, in which case, you probably feel a swelling of "Oh god, not this again" every time the holiday season rolls around. Creedence Clearwater Revival Travelin' Band / Who'll Stop the Rain (1970) Single 'Who'll Stop the Rain' 'Who'll Stop the Rain. Eurythmics Here Comes the Rain Again / This City Never Sleeps / Paint a Rumour (1984) Single 'Here Comes the Rain Again' 'Here Comes the Rain Again' 29: 29. Starting in November, something happens on radios all across the country: Top 40 hits give way to nostalgic, beloved holiday classics (and more recent, less-beloved pop covers of said holiday classics). The Weather Girls It's Raining Men (1982) Single 30: 30. ![]()
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