"Rumors," Timex Social Club (1986)

A gossip magazine in R&B form

Peak: #8 on the Hot 100
Streams: 10.8 million

Y’all, Timex Social Club’s hit “Rumors” is even juicier than it seems. And it seems pretty damn juicy! Set to a minimal (yet satisfying) drum machine beat, it’s a song about how tacky it is to spread gossip… yet it is absolutely loaded with gossip itself.

Here’s the deal: Singer Michael Marshall uses the firs…