Baby Don't Forget My Number

"Baby Don't Forget My Number" is a song by German dance-pop group Milli Vanilli. It was released in December 1988 as the second U.S. single release from their album Girl You Know It's True. It became the first of their three number one hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1989. In 1992, "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied this song and "Blame It on the Rain" as "The Plumbing Song" for his album Off the Deep End. The single was certified Gold in the USA by RIAA.

"Baby Don't Forget My Number"
Single by Milli Vanilli
from the album Girl You Know It's True
Released10 December 1988
Recorded1988
GenreDance-pop, hip hop, new jack swing
Length4:10 (Album Version) 4:00 (single version)
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)Frank Farian
Brad Howell
Producer(s)Frank Farian
Milli Vanilli singles chronology
"Girl You Know It's True"
(1988)		 "Baby Don't Forget My Number"
(1988)		 "Blame It on the Rain"
(1989)

Charts

Weekly charts
Chart (1988–89) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[1] 17
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[2] 14
Canada Top Singles (RPM) 3
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[3] 3
France (SNEP)[4] 17
Ireland (IRMA) 17
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[5] 6
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6] 9
Norway (VG-lista)[7] 5
Spain (AFYVE)[8] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] 11
UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) 16
US Billboard Hot 100 1
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales 12
US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 9
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 10
West Germany (Official German Charts)[10] 9

Year-end charts
Chart (1989) Position
Australia (ARIA)[11] 59
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[12] 42
United States (Billboard)[13][14] 28
Chart (1990) Position
Australia (ARIA)[15] 69
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References
  1. "Australian-charts.com – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  2. "Ultratop.be – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  3. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
  4. "Lescharts.com – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number" (in French). Les classement single.
  5. "Nederlandse Top 40 – Milli Vanilli" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  6. "Charts.nz – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number". Top 40 Singles.
  7. "Norwegiancharts.com – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number". VG-lista.
  8. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  9. "Swisscharts.com – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number". Swiss Singles Chart.
  10. "Offiziellecharts.de – Milli Vanilli – Baby Don't Forget My Number". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 2019-03-01.
  11. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – 1989". ARIA, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  12. "Top Singles - Volume 51, No. 8, December 23, 1989". RPM. 23 December 1999. Archived from the original on 7 September 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  13. "1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 101 (51): Y-22. 23 December 1989.
  14. "Billboard Top 100 – 1989".
  15. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart 1990 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report No. 50)". ARIA, via Imgur.com. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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