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In Honor of 2025, Here Are 25 No. 25 Billboard Hot 100 Hits
A New Year’s look at No. 25-peaking Hot 100 classics from acts including Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Melissa Etheridge, Dr. Dre – and Kermit the Frog.
Later in the decade, despite it not being easy being green, Kermit the Frog (with a hand, literally, from Jim Henson) hopped to the same mark with “Rainbow Connection,” his classic banjo-strummed hopeful anthem from The Muppet Movie. 25-peaking collections include Ray Charles’ pioneering Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music; Enya’s mainstream new age breakthrough Watermark; The All-American Rejects’ self-titled debut LP; Jon Batiste’s Grammy Award winner for album of the year, We Are; and ABBA’s Gold: Greatest Hits, which has charted for more than 350 weeks.) Less than a decade later, one of Gold’s two signature songs segued from radio and turntables to TV, as Cynthia Fee famously covered it as the theme to NBC’s beloved sitcom The Golden Girls.
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