George Harrison wrote ‘Here Comes the Sun’ after he left a business meeting in April 1969 on what he said was the ‘first sunshine of the year’.
‘Rain’ by John Lennon and Paul McCartney was inspired by a trip to Melbourne when Lennon said ‘he had never seen rain like that except in Tahiti and was inspired by ‘people moaning about the weather all the time’. The Beatles came in at number two, mentioning the weather in 48 of the 308 songs they wrote or sang – 16 per cent – including Good Day Sunshine and Rain.
It took climate scientists from five leading universities, including Southampton, Oxford, Newcastle, Nottingham and Reading to come up with the findings. Research has found that 163 of Dylan’s 542 songs reference the climate – almost a third – making him the musician most likely to mention weather.ĭylan famously sang Blowin’ in the Wind, while the song Subterranean Homesick Blues includes the lyrics: ‘You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.’ He is one of the most influential musicians of his generation.Īnd yet Bob Dylan seems to have found a great deal of inspiration in that most mundane of subjects – the weather. All rights reserved.Weatherman: Bob Dylan sings about the climate more than any other musician, with 30 per cent of his songs referencing the weather
#Songs about weather pop full
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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