Every 1's a Winner (song)

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"Every 1's a Winner"
Single by Hot Chocolate
from the album Every 1's a Winner
B-side"A Part of Being with You"
ReleasedMarch 4, 1978 (1978-03-04)
GenreR&B
Length4:49 (album version)
4:04 (single version)
LabelRAK
Songwriter(s)Errol Brown
Producer(s)Mickie Most
Hot Chocolate singles chronology
"Put Your Love In Me"
(1977) 		"Every 1's a Winner"
(1978) 		"I'll Put You Together Again"
(1978)

"Every 1's a Winner" is the third single from the 1978 Hot Chocolate album of the same name. The single was released on 4 March 1978 on RAK Records in the UK and Infinity Records in the US. It peaked at #12 on the UK Singles Chart and #6 on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was the band's second-highest charting single in the US, behind "You Sexy Thing".[1][2]

Chart history

Remixes, covers and sampling

Hot Chocolate released a remixed version of the song on their 1987 album 2001; the remix reached #67 in the UK. A 1999 version of the song by Electrotheque reached #85 in the UK.[13]

Insane Clown Posse sampled sections of "Every 1's A Winner" for their song "The Mighty Death Pop!", [14] as did Girl Talk, on his song "Give Me a Beat".[15]

Scottish rock band Gun recorded a cover of the song in 2015, as part of the re-release of their album Frantic.[16] The song was later included on their best-of compilation R3L0ADED in 2019.[17]

References

  1. ^ "Hot Chocolate". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  2. ^ "Hot Chocolate Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  4. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1979-03-10. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  5. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Every 1's a Winner". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  6. ^ "Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2019-08-11.
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  8. ^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, February 29, 1979". Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  9. ^ "australian-charts.com - Forum - Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts - 1980s (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  10. ^ "1979 Top 200 Singles". RPM. Vol. 32, no. 13. Library and Archives Canada. December 22, 1979. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  11. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1979/Top 100 Songs of 1979". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  12. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 29, 1979". Archived from the original on July 13, 2014. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  13. ^ "Electrotheque". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2018-11-10.
  14. ^ "Insane Clown Posse's 'The Mighty Death Pop' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  15. ^ "Girl Talk's 'Give Me a Beat' - Discover the Sample Source". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  16. ^ Aimee Davis (September 3, 2015). "Gun cover the Hot Chocolate classic 'Every 1's A Winner'…and it's good!". Never Enough Notes. Retrieved January 5, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ^ Scot Colothan (September 19, 2019). "GUN announce best-of album 'R3L0ADED' & premiere Stevie Wonder cover". Planet Rock. Retrieved January 5, 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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