Olivia Newton-John, Rod Stewart, Boyz II Men top Billboard’s sexiest songs
With Valentine being the acknowledged season for lovers, music bible, Billboard has ranked the 50 sexiest songs of all time with Olivia Newton-John, Rod Stewart, Boyz II Men ranking first, second and third respectively.
According to Billboard, “These are, literally, the 50 most popular songs about sex ever, as based on each song’s performance on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (from August 4, 1958 — the inception of the Hot 100 chart — through the January 16, 2010 issue).
Sitting at the top of the list is Physical by Olivia Newton-John. The 61-year-old Newton-John has four Grammy Awards but currently spends much of her time on her charitable projects. She is a British-born Australian actress who starred in Grease, is currently in Toronto shooting the film Score: A Hockey Musical, in which she portrays a hockey star’s parent.
In the Billboard survey, Rod Stewart came close at No 2 with 1976’s Tonight’s the Night and also landed another song on the top 10 with Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.
Boyz II Men place third with the 1995 hit, I’ll Make Love To You.
At number five is Marvin Gaye with Let’s Get It On (1973), and Gaye comes in again at number 34 with the blockbuster, Sexual Healing.
At number 32 is Patti Labelle and company’s Lady Marmalade, a tale of a bi-lingual New Orleans call girl. The sexiest lyric in this song is identified as: “Voulez-vouz coucher avec moi, ce soir?”
Obviously absent froom this list is soul singer, Barry White.
“Some songs are steamy slow-jams, some are hi-octane arena-rockers, but what they all have in common (and what got them on this list) is that the subject matter of each song is directly related to sex, in some way,” Billboard said in a statement Friday.
See the Top 10 Sexiest Songs of all times listed below:
10. Da Ya Think I’m Sexy
Artiste: Rod Stewart
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for four weeks (2/10/1979)
Sexiest lyric: “His heart’s beating like a drum ‘cos at last he’s got this girl home/ Relax baby, now we are alone”
9. Kiss You All Over
Artiste: Exile
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for four wks (9/30/1978)
Sexiest lyric: “Gonna wrap my arms around you, hold you close to me/ Oh, babe, I wanna taste your lips, I wanna fill your fantasy”
8. Like A Virgin
Artsite: Madonna
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for six wks
(12/22/1984)
Sexiest lyric: “Oooh, like a virgin/ Feels so good inside”
7. Do That To Me One More Time
Artsites: Captain & Tennille
Sexiest lyric: “Do that to me one more time/ Once is never enough with a man like you.”
6. Hot Stuff
Artiste: Donna Summer
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for three wks (6/2/1979)
Sexiest lyric: “Wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover/ Wanna bring a wild man back home.”
5 Let’s Get It On
Artiste: Marvin Gaye
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for two wks (9/8/1973)
Sexiest lyric: “Don’t you know how sweet and wonderful life can be?/ I’m asking you, baby, to get it on with me.”
4. Too Close
Artiste: Next
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for five wks (4/25/1998)
Sexiest lyric: “Baby when we’re g@#%^ing, I get so excited/ Ooh, how I like it, I try but I can’t fight it.”
3. I’ll Make Love To You
Boyz II Men
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for 14 wks (8/27/1994)
Sexiest lyric: “Throw your clothes, on the floor/ I’m gonna take my clothes off too/ I made plans to be with you”
2 Tonight’s The Night
Rod Stewart
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for eight wks
(11/13/1976)
Sexiest lyric: “You’d be a fool to stop this tide/ Spread your wings and let me come inside.”
1. Physical
Olivia Newton-John
Hot 100 Peak: 1 for 10 wks
Sexiest lyric: “I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie/ There’s nothing left to talk about unless it’s horizontally.”