
Every Billboard Hot 100 Single 1970: #591:” Paranoid”- Black Sabbath. November 28, 1970.
- Single:” Paranoid”- Black Sabbath
- Record Company- Warner Bros
- Genre: Rock
- Written by Terry Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and William Ward
- Time: 2:50
- B-side:”The Wizard”
- Album- Paranoid
- Grade: A
- Peaked at #61 8 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
Black Sabbath – a heavy metal band from Birmingham, England had 2 Hot 100 singles neither made the Top 40- a legendary heavy metal band- an album oriented band obviously not a singles band.
While I always preferred Deep Purple over Black Sabbath and still do, “Paranoid” undoubtedly is a classic.