While plucking the 20 most momentous Billboard No. 1 hits over six-plus decades, music critic Tom Breihan skipped over no shortage of notable Georgia artists, from Gladys Knight and Ray Charles, to R.E.M. and OutKast.
The ones that made the cut in his new book “The Number Ones”? Atlanta’s Soulja Boy, the man behind the 2007 surprise hit “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” and hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd with 2016′s “Black Beatles.”
So while the the book does explore some of the biggest names in pop history such as the Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac, Mariah Carey and BTS, it tackles lesser lights such as Chubby Checker, George McCrae and Vanilla Ice.
