ABC (The Jackson 5 song)

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This article is about the Jackson Five song. For alphabet songs, see Alphabet song. For other songs, see ABC song (disambiguation).
"ABC"
Song
B-side"The Young Folks"

"ABC" is a 1970 number-one hit by the Jackson 5. First aired on American Bandstand on the ABC network) on February 21, 1970. It was released on February 24."ABC" knocked The Beatles' Let It Be off the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970, and was number one on the soul singles chart for four weeks. It was written with the same design as their first 1970 hit 'I Want You Back'. ABC was performed on the American Bandstand (21st February, 1970), Ed Sullivan Show (10th May, 1970), The Groovy Show (10th June, 1970), Flip Wilson Show (4th November, 1971), Save the Children Benefit Concert (September, 1972), The Jackson 5 Show (5th November, 1972), Royal Variety Show (5th November, 1972), One More Time (10th January, 1974), Sandy In Disneyland (10th April, 1974) and The Jacksons TV Series (7th July, 1976).

It is considered one of the band's signature songs. It is one of the shortest titles to hit #1, and is the first alphabetically in a list of #1 its on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]

50 Cent told NME that the song was the first he remembered hearing: "I've always loved MJ, so I guess it was probably a good place to start music: right here, with the ABCs."[3]

Charts

Chart (1970-1971, 2009) Peak
position
Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[4] 24
UK Singles Chart 8
US Billboard Hot 100 1
Chart (2009) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 43
Irish Singles Chart 38
UK Singles Chart 50

Personnel

References

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Billboard Books. p. 272.
  3. ^ Haynes, Gavin (October 1, 2015). "Soundtrack of my life". NME: 48. {{cite journal}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |magazine= (help)
  4. ^ [2] Archived August 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Preceded by Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
April 25, 1970 (two weeks) 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one single
April 4, 1970 (four weeks) 		Succeeded by
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