On this week's '80's show (the re-airing of the August 22nd, 1981 AT40), Casey answers a question letter regarding songs which predict their own peak positions in their titles. The statisticians found that "eight songs in the Rock Era contained the number in the title that they eventually peaked at":
"The Seventh Son", Johnny Rivers (#7, 1965)
"One Bad Apple", The Osmonds (#1, 1971)
"#9 Dream", John Lennon (#9, 1975)
"One Of These Nights", The Eagles (#1, 1975)
"Do That To Me One More Time", The Captain And Tennille (#1, 1980)
"Another One Bites The Dust", Queen (#1, 1980)
"The One That You Love", Air Supply (#1, 1981)
"Just The Two Of Us", Grover Washington, Jr. (#2, 1981 -- the song which inspired the question letter)
"The One That You Love", Air Supply (#1, 1981)
Either Casey's team missed some, or else they were applying undocumented criteria, because I was able to pull two or three more examples from the depths of the well of useless trivia stored somewhere in my brain! For starters...
"1-2-3", Len Barry (#2, 1965)
"25 or 6 to 4", Chicago (#4, 1970)
Additionally, six years after this AT40 show, Gloria Estefan And The Miami Sound Machine would take a
different song titled "1-2-3" to #3 -- one song title, two peaks! And it's been occasionally pointed out that the Chicago song also predicted its chart action moving from #6 to #4 on the September 11th, 1970 chart...
It would be odd if the Len Barry and Chicago songs were disqualified owing to more than one number in the title -- several times in the teaser and main answering segment, mention was only made of the song title containing the number of its peak, nothing about any other numbers...
However, I can think of yet another example, where the number could arguably be considered part of the song's
subtitle:
"Fingertips - Part 1", Little Stevie Wonder (#1, 1963)
If that wasn't a direct oversight, the statisticians
might have disqualified it on "subtitle only" grounds -- there have been other answers to questions where subtitles were excluded (for example, longest overall title of a #1 song)...
Okay, that's the end of the "true" examples that I could come up with, but this
is the American Top 40 Fun And Games forum, so I
do have some "out-of-the-box" thinking to share on this topic...
If we expand from simple numbers to any word which
suggests a particular number in some way, I have some more examples (and a near-miss):
"Penny Lane", The Beatles (#1, 1967)
The penny coin is worth one penny in UK currency, or worth one cent in dollar-based currencies.
"Love Is Like Oxygen", Sweet (#8, 1978)
The chemical element oxygen has atomic number 8.
"Queen Of Hearts", Juice Newton (#2, 1981)
The queen is the second-highest rank in a deck of playing cards.
And Men Without Hats just missed evoking the two points of an American football safety call with "The Safety Dance" (#3, 1983)!
Finally, suppose we turn Billboard's Hot 100 upside down by ranking its one hundred songs according to how poorly it sold and/or received airplay, so that the number-one song did the worst and the number-one-hundred song did the best.
Then on the week ending March 3rd, 1984, "99 Luftballons" by Nena achieved its trough of the 99th-worst-performing song on that week's Hot 100!
("99" by Toto only made it as low as #75, the week ending March 15th, 1980...)