Hundreds of songs have received Golden Globe nominations for best original song since the award was introduced at the 19th Golden Globe ceremony in March 1962. But just 10 of them have topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six or more weeks.

Two of them – Blondie’s “Call Me” from American Gigolo and Irene Cara’s “Flashdance…What a Feeling” from Flashdance – were co-written by Giorgio Moroder. “Flashdance” went on to win the Oscar for best original song, as did the Debby Boone smash “You Light Up My Life,” but the eight other Globe winners which topped the Hot 100 for six or more weeks did not, surprisingly.

The first Globe nominee for best original song to top the Hot 100 was “Strangers in the Night” from the 1966 James Garner film A Man Could Get Killed. The song appears in the film only as

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