question: Which Rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe spent 16 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts?
answer: "Rivers of Babylon"
context: Title: U Know What's Up
  Passage: "U Know What's Up" is a 1999 hit song by singer-songwriter-producer Donell Jones' second studio album, "Where I Wanna Be".  The song features Lisa Lopes of TLC.  It reached number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart on November 13, 1999, and stayed at number one for eight consecutive weeks.  It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, remaining there for two consecutive weeks.  Outside the United States, the song peaked within the top ten of the charts in the United Kingdom.  The song was produced by Edward "Eddie F" Ferrell and Darren Lighty for Untouchables Entertainment.  It is Jones's biggest hit to date.  The song was co-written by Anthony Hamilton.  The songs serves as the opening track on LaFace Records.
  Title: Verdammt, ich lieb' dich
  Passage: "Verdammt, ich lieb' dich" is a 1990 song by German singer-songwriter Matthias Reim, from his debut album "Reim".  The song was Reim's first single, and remains his biggest hit, reaching the number-one spot in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands.  In Germany it spent 16 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts, equalling the record set by Boney M.'s "Rivers of Babylon".  The song's title means "Damn, I love you".
  Title: Scar Tissue (song)
  Passage: "Scar Tissue" is the first single from the American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' seventh studio album "Californication", released in 1999.  It is one of their most successful songs, spending a then-record 16 consecutive weeks on top of the "Billboard" Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, as well as 10 weeks at the top of the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and reached number 8 on "Billboard" Hot 100 Airplay.  It peaked at number 9 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.  In the UK, the song reached number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.  It won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 2000.  The song is notable for its mellow intro guitar riff and for its slide guitar solos throughout. " Guitar World" placed the guitar solo 63rd in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos".
  Title: Rivers of Babylon
  Passage: "Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970.  The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible.  The Melodians' original version of the song appeared in the soundtrack album of the 1972 movie "The Harder They Come", making it internationally known.
  Title: Before These Crowded Streets
  Passage: Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998.  It was the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until 2012's "Away from the World" and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California.  The album title is taken from the lyrics of the song "The Dreaming Tree."  It debuted at #1 on the "Billboard" 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release knocking the "Titanic" soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.
  Title: Voyage (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
  Passage: "Voyage" is the 28th single released by Ayumi Hamasaki on September 26, 2002.  "Voyage" debuted at #1 on the weekly charts with more than 319,020 copies sold in its first week and remained at the top position for three consecutive weeks out of a total 28 weeks on the chart, becoming her longest-charting single.  The single sold a total of 679,463 copies and became the ninth-best-selling single of the year.  To date, "Voyage" is Ayumi Hamasaki's only single which has remained in the top position of the weekly Oricon charts for at least three weeks other than "H" and "A"; however, "Voyage" is Hamasaki's only single to stay at #1 for three consecutive weeks ("A" and "H" spent 3 non-consecutive weeks at #1).  "Voyage" was used as the theme song of the Japanese movie "Tsuki ni Shizumu", which was created in lieu of a PV for the single.  It was also used as the ending song of a Japanese television drama "My Little Chef", starring Hiroshi Abe and Aya Ueto.
  Title: Billy Ray Cyrus discography
  Passage: Billy Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon.  He has released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, and is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country.  Thanks to the video of the song, the linedance entered the mainstream, becoming a worldwide craze.  Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart.  His most successful album to date is the debut of "Some Gave All", which has been certified 9× multi-platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the "Billboard" 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.  It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the second-highest selling debut album by a male country artist after Garth Brooks'.  It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, "Ropin' the Wind" by Garth Brooks.  "Some Gave All" was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums.  The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist. " Some Gave All" was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies.  In his career, he has released 35 charted singles, of which 16 have charted in the top 40.
  Title: I Go Crazy (Paul Davis song)
  Passage: "I Go Crazy" is a song written, composed, and recorded by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis.  It was the first single he released from his 1977 album "Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales", and his second-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #7 on the "Billboard" chart in 1978.  The song entered the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop singles chart on 27 August 1977 and began slowly climbing, peaking in March and April 1978, before dropping off the chart the week after 27 May 1978.  Overall, it spent 40 weeks (nine months and one week) on the "Billboard" Hot 100 charts, setting what was then the record for the longest run on that chart, of consecutive weeks or not.  During the March 4, 1978, "American Top 40" show, Casey Kasem related that Paul Davis begged his studio to have the song presented to Lou Rawls, who he thought would make it a huge success but, when the studio saw how much faith he had in the chances of the song's success, it decided to release a lightly edited version of Davis' studio demo version.
  Title: List of West Bromwich Albion F.C. seasons
  Passage: West Bromwich Albion Football Club was founded as West Bromwich Strollers in 1878 by workers from George Salter's Spring Works and turned professional in 1885.  Albion won the FA Cup for the first time in 1888 and later that year became one of the founder members of the Football League.  In the 1900–01 season, the club moved to its current home ground, The Hawthorns.  Albion have spent the majority of their history in the top division of English football, including 24 seasons in a row between 1949–50 and 1972–73.  From 1986–87 to 2001–02, they spent 16 consecutive seasons outside the top division, recording their lowest ever league finish of seventh in Division Three in 1991–92.  Albion have been promoted 10 times and relegated 10 times, with 7 of the 20 changes of division coming between 2002 and 2010.  The team played in the Premier League for the first time in 2002–03.
  Title: Avant de partir
  Passage: "Avant de partir" is a song recorded by French singer Ève Angeli.  Written by Angeli's then fiancé, now husband, Michel Rostaing, it was her debut single from her album "Aime-moi" (2001), and was released on 8 September 2000.  It became the singer's most successful single in terms of peak positions on the charts, hitting success.  In France, the single debuted at number 59 on the chart edition of 16 September 2000 and climbed regularly until reaching a peak of number four for three consecutive weeks.  It remained for 15 weeks in the top ten and fell out of the top 100 after 33 weeks.  On 16 May 2001, it earned a Platinum disc for selling over 500,000 units.  In Belgium (Wallonia), it entered the Ultratop 50 on 30 December 2000 at number 40 and reached number two in its eighth week, being unable to dislodge Garou's hit single "Seul" which topped the chart then.  The single totaled ten weeks in the top ten and 17 weeks in the top 40.  In Switzerland, entered at a peak of number 20 on 21 January 2001, then dropped and remained for six weeks in the top 100.
citations: Verdammt, ich lieb' dich Rivers of Babylon