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No Foolin’: The Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits With ‘Fool’ in Their Titles


Fools for chart history can explore Billboard’s roundup of the 25 biggest Hot 100 hits with the word 'fool' in their titles; see the full list.

From tracks by Nelson and Swift to those by Luther Vandross, George Michael, Elvis Presley, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin and more, the songs below became beloved hits. 1s from his debut solo album, Faith, Michael took an adventurous turn, releasing this elegant ballad perhaps better suited to a piano bar than pop radio. The song shares the mark for the longest-reigning Hot 100 hit by a woman in her first chart visit as a lead artist (tied with Debby Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” in 1977).

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