Dr Sarah Mander, from the University of Manchester, said: “There is definitely a pattern whereby after periods of bad weather you get a lot of weather related songs. The study also found that musicians were inspired by specific weather events. Weather-related songs are also very popular, with 7 per cent of them appearing Rolling Stone’s (2011) top 500 list of the Greatest Songs Of All Time. Over 900 songwriters or singers have written or sung about weather, the most common being Bob Dylan, followed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Songs mentioned up to six weather types, such as ‘Stormy’ by Cobb and Buie. The study involving The University of Manchester academics along with colleagues from Newcastle, Southampton, Oxford and Reading analysed the weather through lyrics, musical genre, keys and links to specific weather events.įrequently, songs mentioned more than one weather type, indicating a range of emotions within a song. The joint study published in the journal Weather also found many song writers were inspired by weather events. The most common were sun and rain, and blizzards being the least common. All rights reserved.Weather is frequently portrayed in pop music, with a new scientific study finding over 750 popular music songs referring to weather. View the full list of every 'Rain' song that has reached the Official Singles Chart Top 40 below: TITLE ![]() We've limited our list below specifically to songs with 'rain' in the title, but if we were to extend to weather themed songs, some of the big hits include Crowded House's 1992 Number 7 hit Weather With You, Rihanna's 10-week chart-topper Umbrella, and Blame It On The Weatherman by Irish girl group B*Witched. The first ever 'rain' themed song to reach the charts, Rain Rain Rain by Frankie Laine and The Four Lads, was a Top 10 hit, reaching Number 8 in 1954. The original re-entered the Top 40 at Number 31 in 2014 after becoming an unlikely protest song in the wake of a UKIP councillor's comments on gay marriage.Įlsewhere, other big 'rain' songs include Adele's Set Fire To The Rain, a Number 11 hit in 2011, and Kiss The Rain, a transatlantic one-hit wonder for British singer-songwriter Billie Myers in 1998, reaching Number 4. Geri Halliwell's cover - which featured in Bridget Jones's Diary - took it all the way to Number 1 in 2001. It's not the first time the timeless classic has appeared in the chart: the cast of Glee covered it in a mashup with Rihanna's Umbrella, reaching Number 22 in 2011, and a hi-energy rendition by Sheila and B Devotion reached Number 11 in 1978.Īnother popular 'rain' song is camp classic It's Raining Men, first released by The Weather Girls, where it reached Number 2 in 1984. ![]() Of those, just four have reached Number 1 the most recent is a cover of Singin' In The Rain by British producer Mint Royale, which topped the chart for two weeks in 2005. In the 68 years of the Official Singles Chart, 102 songs with 'Rain' in their title have charted inside the Top 40. This week sees UK rappers Aitch, AJ Tracey and Tay Keith score a Top 5 debut with their collaboration Rain, while Niall Horan has gone all-out on his weather-themed second album, called Heartbreak Weather. Given its mood-reflecting qualities (pathetic fallacy is the technical term), it's also a popular subject in songs. As well as reportedly checking the forecast eight times a week on average, it's also a fail-safe social prop for making small talk. ![]() Obsession with the weather is a uniquely British phenomenon.
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