Check out this website which will tell you the exact song that was #1 on the American record charts the day you were born.. the lists go all the way back to the 1890's. They didn't have The Billboard Record charts until the mid-30's, but sales of records & sheet music plus the popularity of songs have been noted in historical archives for a long time. While we all know that Frank Sinatra had screaming hoards of teenage fans in his heyday, so did Mozart and Beethoven.
