Clocks in at 1:53. I'm sure we can find some that are even shorter!






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Shortest Hit Single

The shortest duration of a hit single is 36 seconds. The track in question is "The Ladies' Bras" by Jonny Trunk & Wisbey; a download only single (2007). It beat the record set just a few weeks previously by "Spider Pig" - a track from the 2007 Simpsons Movie - by 26 seconds.

This record for shortest physical single is held by Nukleuz DJs. The title/lead track of their 2003 "DJ Nation - Bootleg Edition" EP was a mix of each of the other six tracks on the EP (available on three separate CD/12" singles) clocking in at just 1 minute 15 seconds seconds.
In terms of a complete physical song (ie. not a medley and/or download), "Let's Get Together" by Hayley Mills (1961) clocked in at 1 minute 25 seconds. The US version of "Some Kinda Earthquake", an instrumental single by Duane Eddy, was abridged (1 minute 17 seconds in duration, 1959) but the British version ran at the full 1 min 53 secs.
The shortest chart-topper is Adam Faith's "What Do You Want" from 1959 (1 minute, 38 seconds).



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And this, apparently, is the winner. Onward and upward with the arts!






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When it comes to hit singles, or songs that should have been hits if they were singles, nothing is shorter than big Neil Innes:

Shortest Beatles 45?

Not a single but Canada's Sloan has a song I can't Sleep that is 52 seconds long.

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LOL. I just had to hear what "Kicked Out Of The Webelos" sounded like. Webelos, in case you may not know, or may have forgotten, is a kind of brief limbo for young American boys who are too old for The Cub Scouts and too young for The Boy Scouts.






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Not a single...but perhaps of historical interest.

this is the shortest:






I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

One Broken Heart For Sale by Elvis is fairly short

this is rather short

the song itself is just 30 seconds and went high in the charts in germany in 2000 i think, maybe no 1. the video is in the guinness book of records for shortest video

Best Song Ever That's Under 1 Minute Long. Interestingly, it's the same guy (Alex Chilton) who does "The Letter", the song at the top of the thread.






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From Ryan Adams as "The Shit".

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this is the shortest:

We were just discussing this at the Hep Stars board!

Surprised no one has mentioned the Stones first single, which clocks in at 1 minute 48 seconds.

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Shortest poem ever, by Muhammed Ali, one word, with one letter"

"I"

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this is the shortest:

We were just discussing this at the Hep Stars board!

So which one is the ABBA dude?

The Jaimies' "Summertime, Summertime" was long thought to be the shortest single,
clocking in at 2:00. But that's not the case. Charted in '58 and '62. Still fun.

"Stay" by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs - 1:38

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this is the shortest:

We were just discussing this at the Hep Stars board!

So which one is the ABBA dude?

Piano in the middle...Do you have a link to Hep Stars Board Wry?