VG-lista 1964 to 1994
This is a summary list of all the top singles in the VG-lista,[1] the official Norwegian hit-chart, from 1964 to 1994. For detailed listings week by week for number-one positions from 1995 onwards, see List of number-one songs in Norway.
1964
[edit]- The Beatles - "She Loves You"
- The Beatles - "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- The Swinging Blue Jeans - "Hippy Hippy Shake"
- Wenche Myhre - "La meg være ung"
- Jim Reeves - "I Love You Because"
- The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night"
- Jim Reeves - "I Won't Forget You"
- The Beatles - "I Should Have Known Better"
- Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
- The Beatles - "If I Fell"
- The Beatles - "I Feel Fine"
1965
[edit]- Sven-Ingvars - "Fröken Fräken"
- The Beatles - "Rock and Roll Music"
- The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time"
- France Gall - "Poupée de cire, poupée de son"
- The Beatles - "Ticket to Ride"
- Roger Miller - "King of the Road"
- Jailbird Singers - "Där björkarna susa"
- Hep Stars - "Cadillac"
- Elvis Presley - "Crying in the Chapel"
- The Spotnicks - "Blue Blue Day"
- The Beatles - "Help!"
- The Rolling Stones - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"
- The Beatles - "Yesterday"
- The Beatles - "Day Tripper"
1966
[edit]- Barry McGuire - "You Were on My Mind"
- The Overlanders - "Michelle"
- The Beatles - "Michelle"
- The Beach Boys - "Barbara Ann"
- The Beach Boys - "Sloop John B"
- The Beatles - "Paperback Writer"
- The Kinks - "Sunny Afternoon"
- The Beatles - "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby"
- Sonny & Cher - "Little Man"
- Herman's Hermits - "No Milk Today"
1967
[edit]- Tom Jones - "Green, Green Grass of Home"
- The Monkees - "I'm a Believer"
- The Beatles - "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever"
- Sandie Shaw - "Puppet on a String"
- Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra - "Somethin' Stupid"
- The Monkees - "Theme From The Monkees"
- The Tremeloes - "Silence Is Golden"
- The Beatles - "All You Need Is Love"
- Scott McKenzie - "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"
- Box Tops - "The Letter"
- Bee Gees - "Massachusetts"
- Sven-Ingvars - "Önskebrunnen"
- The Beatles - "Hello, Goodbye"
1968
[edit]- Anna-Lena Löfgren - "Lyckliga Gatan"
- Cliff Richard - "Congratulations"
- Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - "Young Girl"
- Gunnar Wicklund - "Vi skal gå hand i hand"
- Nancy Sinatra & Dean Martin - "Things"
- Inger Lise Andersen - "Romeo og Julie"
- The Beatles - "Hey Jude/Revolution"
- Mary Hopkin - "Those Were The Days"
- Gluntan - "Langs hver en vei"
- Inger Lise Andersen - "Fru Johnsen"
1969
[edit]- Marmalade - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
- Kirsti Sparboe - "Oj, Oj, Oj, Så Glad Jeg Skal Bli"
- Lulu - "Boom Bang-a-Bang"
- The Beatles - "Get Back"
- The Beatles - "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
- Elvis Presley - "In the Ghetto"
- Zager & Evans - "In the Year 2525"
- Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - "Je t'aime... moi non plus"
- The Archies - "Sugar Sugar"
1970
[edit]- B.J. Thomas - "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
- Stevie Wonder - "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday"
- The Beatles - "Let It Be"
- Frijid Pink - "The House of the Rising Sun"
- Christie - "Yellow River"
- Mungo Jerry - "In the Summertime"
- The Beach Boys - "Cottonfields"
- Anita Hegerland - "Mitt sommarlov"
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Lookin' Out My Back Door"
- Gro Anita Schønn - "En enkel sang om frihet"
1971
[edit]- Neil Diamond - "Cracklin' Rosie"
- George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
- Lynn Anderson - "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden"
- Middle of the Road - "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"
- Ocean - "Put Your Hand in the Hand"
- Pop Tops - "Mamy Blue"
- Middle of the Road - "Soley Soley"
1972
[edit]- Middle of the Road - "Sacramento"
- New Seekers - "Beg, Steal or Borrow"
- Ann-Louise Hanson - "Tag emot en utsträckt hand"
- Stein Ingebrigtsen - "Cento Campane"
- Daniel Boone - "Beautiful Sunday"
- Hot Butter - "Popcorn"
- Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Matrimony"
- Gilbert O'Sullivan - "Clair"
1973
[edit]- Wenche Myhre - "Jeg og du og vi to"
- Cliff Richard - "Power to All Our Friends"
- Dawn - "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree"
- Stein Ingebrigtsen - "Bare du"
- Albert Hammond - "Free Electric Band"
- Lillebjørn Nilsen - "Barn av regnbuen"
1974
[edit]- The Rolling Stones - "Angie"
- Inger Lise Rypdal - "En spennende dag for Josefine"
- Suzi Quatro - "Devil Gate Drive"
- ABBA - "Waterloo"
- Terry Jacks - "Seasons in the Sun"
- Terry Jacks - "If You Go Away"
- George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby"
- Hans Petter Hansen - "Jeg kommer snart igjen"
1975
[edit]- Slade - "Far Far Away"
- Billy Swan - "I Can Help"
- Teach-In - "Ding-A-Dong"
- Nazareth - "Love Hurts"
- George Baker Selection - "Paloma Blanca"
- Rod Stewart - "Sailing"
1976
[edit]- Roger Whittaker - "The Last Farewell"
- Harpo - "Movie Star"
- Brotherhood of Man - "Save Your Kisses for Me"
- ABBA - "Dancing Queen"
- Pussycat - "Mississippi"
1977
[edit]- Boney M. - "Daddy Cool"
- Smokie - "Living Next Door To Alice"
- Boney M - "Ma Baker"
- The Manhattan Transfer - "Chanson D'Amour"
- Baccara - "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"
- Baccara - "Sorry, I'm a Lady"
1978
[edit]- Baccara - "Darling"
- Bonnie Tyler - "It's a Heartache"
- Jahn Teigen - "Mil etter mil"
- Boney M - "Rivers of Babylon"
- John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - "You're the One That I Want"
- Geir Børresen & Smurfene - "Smurfesangen"
1979
[edit]- Bee Gees - "Too Much Heaven"
- Frankie Miller - "Darlin'"
- Milk and Honey - "Hallelujah"
- Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
- Patrick Hernandez - "Born to Be Alive"
- Frank Zappa - "Bobby Brown"
- Cliff Richard - "We Don't Talk Anymore"
1980
[edit]- Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"
- Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II"
- Sverre Kjelsberg & Mattis Hætta - "Sámiid Ædnan"
- Johnny Logan - "What's Another Year"
- Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra - "Xanadu"
- Lipps Inc - "Funkytown"
- The Kids - "Hun er forelska i lærer'n"
- Diana Ross - "Upside Down"
- Ottawan - "D.I.S.C.O."
- Barbra Streisand - "Woman in Love"
1981
[edit]- Lars Kilevold - "Livet er for kjipt"
- Gyllene Tider - "När vi två blir en"
- Jannicke - "Svake mennesker"
- Jon English and Mario Millo - "Against the Wind"/"Six Ribbons"
- Beranek - "Dra til hælvete"
- Caramba - "Hubba Hubba Zoot-Zoot"
- Kim Carnes - "Bette Davis Eyes"
- Sheena Easton - "For Your Eyes Only"
- Ottawan - "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)"
1982
[edit]- Casino Steel & Gary Holton - "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town"
- Electronicas - "Dance Little Bird"
- Shakin' Stevens - "Oh Julie"
- Christopher Cross - "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"
- The Human League - "Don't You Want Me"
- Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder - "Ebony and Ivory"
- Nicole - "Ein Bißchen Frieden"
- David Bowie - "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"
- Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger"
- Bolland & Bolland - "You're In the Army Now"
- F. R. David - "Words"
1983
[edit]- Renée and Renato - "Save Your Love"
- David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
- Carola - "Främling"
- Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
- Agnetha Fältskog - "The Heat is On"
- Mike Oldfield - "Moonlight Shadow"
- Irene Cara - "Flashdance... What a Feeling"
- The Monroes - "Sunday People"
- Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson - "Say Say Say"
- Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"
- Tracey Ullman - "They Don't Know"
1984
[edit]- Matthew Wilder - "Break My Stride"
- Slade - "My Oh My"
- Cyndi Lauper - "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
- Mel Brooks - "To Be or Not To Be"
- Break Machine - "Street Dance"
- Phil Collins - "Against All Odds"
- Wham! - "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
- Stevie Wonder - "I Just Called to Say I Love You"
- Wham! - "Freedom"
- Limahl - "Neverending Story"
1985
[edit]- Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
- Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is"
- VideoKids - "Woodpeckers from Space"
- USA for Africa - "We Are the World"
- Bobbysocks - "La det swinge"
- Paul Hardcastle - "19"
- Sandra - "Maria Magdalena"
- Eurythmics - "There Must Be An Angel"
- The Monroes - "Cheerio"
- a-ha - "Take On Me"
- Modern Talking - "Cheri Cheri Lady"
- Jennifer Rush - "Power of Love"
- Lionel Richie - "Say You, Say Me"
1986
[edit]- Pet Shop Boys - "West End Girls"
- Bobbysocks - "Waiting for the Morning"
- Billy Ocean - "When the Going Gets Tough"
- Mr. Mister - "Kyrie"
- George Michael - "A Different Corner"
- Hear 'n Aid - "Stars"
- Falco - "Jeanny"
- Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)"
- Madonna - "Papa Don't Preach"
- Lionel Richie - "Dancing on the Ceiling"
- Chris de Burgh - "The Lady in Red"
- a-ha - "I've Been Losing You"
- Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"
- Bob Geldof - "This is the World Calling"
1987
[edit]- Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer"
- Kim Wilde - "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
- Gary Moore - "Over the Hills and Far Away"
- Boy George - "Everything I Own"
- Ferry Aid - "Let It Be"
- Whitney Houston - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
- a-ha - "The Living Daylights"
- Michael Jackson - "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
- Pet Shop Boys - "It's a Sin"
- Desireless - "Voyage Voyage"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Brilliant Disguise"
- Rick Astley - "Never Gonna Give You Up"
- Bee Gees - "You Win Again"
- T'Pau - "China in Your Hand"
1988
[edit]- Belinda Carlisle - "Heaven Is a Place on Earth"
- Billy Ocean - "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
- a-ha - "Stay on These Roads"
- Prince - "Alphabet St."
- Ofra Haza - "Im Nin'Alu"
- Tindrum - "Drums of War"
- Viggo Sandvik - "Fisking i Valdres"
- Europe - "Superstitious"
- Transvision Vamp - "I Want Your Love"
- Vidar Theisen & The Retrievers - "Heavy Metal"
- Koreana - "Hand in Hand"
- One 2 Many - "Downtown"
- Sam Brown - "Stop!"
1989
[edit]- Robin Beck - "First Time"
- Will To Power - "Baby, I Love Your Way"
- Paula Abdul - "Straight Up"
- Madonna - "Like a Prayer"
- Roxette - "The Look"
- The Bangles - "Eternal Flame"
- Prince - "Batdance"
- Franklin - "Bombadilla Life"
- Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - "Swing the Mood"
- Kaoma - "Lambada"
- Phil Collins - "Another Day in Paradise"
1990
[edit]- Lisa Stansfield - "All Around the World"
- Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
- Madonna - "Vogue"
- Alannah Myles - "Black Velvet"
- Roxette - "It Must Have Been Love"
- a-ha - "Crying in the Rain"
- Maria McKee - "Show Me Heaven"
1991
[edit]- Enigma - "Sadeness (Part I)"
- Inner Circle - "Bad Boys"
- The Simpsons - "Do the Bartman"
- Roxette - "Joyride"
- Cher - "The Shoop Shoop Song"
- Scorpions - "Wind of Change"
- Zucchero & Paul Young - "Senza una donna"
- Bryan Adams - "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
- U2 - "The Fly"
- Michael Jackson - "Black or White"
1992
[edit]- George Michael & Elton John - "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
- Ten Sharp - "You"
- Go-Go Gorilla - "Mother Porno"
- Go-Go Gorilla - "Go-Go Gorilla"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Human Touch"
- Mr Big - "To Be with You"
- U96 - "Das Boot"
- Maggie Reilly - "Everytime We Touch"
- Roxette - "How Do You Do!"
- Michael Learns To Rock - "The Actor"
- Bon Jovi - "Keep the Faith"
- Ace of Base - "Wheel of Fortune"
1993
[edit]- Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You"
- 2 Unlimited - "No Limit"
- Snow - "Informer"
- Haddaway - "What Is Love"
- Culture Beat - "Mr Vain"
- 4 Non Blondes - "What's Up"
- Freddie Mercury - "Living on My Own"
- Meat Loaf - "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)"
- Bryan Adams - "Please Forgive Me"
1994
[edit]- Aerosmith - "Cryin'"
- Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart & Sting - "All For Love"
- Sissel Kyrkjebø - "Se ilden lyse"
- Enigma - "Return to Innocence"
- Bruce Springsteen - "Streets of Philadelphia"
- Beck - "Loser"
- Crash Test Dummies - "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
- Wet Wet Wet - "Love Is All Around"
- Rednex - "Cotton Eye Joe"