I believe it was my ninth grade biology teacher that, on the first day of classes, made us fill out notecards that included the dates of our birth. Then, one at a time, he paged through this tome of a book and told us the song that appeared as No. 1 on the Billboard charts the moment we were born.

He insisted that this little nugget of trivia, like an Oracle in Greek tragedies, somehow said something about our future personalities. So imagine our giddiness when he unleashed Lionel Ritchie’s All Night Long on some prim and proper girl, and then Madonna’s Like a Virgin on some jock star braggard.

There’s no question it was a fun classroom icebreaker – I bet you never thought you’d see the words “fun” and “icebreaker” in proximity – but for some reason it has stuck with me and every few months I think about my chart-topper, the Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).

Is it fate? Is it a fun fact? Am I really made of sweet dreams?

I’ll let you be the judge. Check out the song that topped the charts when you were born!