Top 10 ub40 songs. Oct 15, 2025 · List of the best UB40 songs, ranked by fans like you. This song was released in 1981 from their second album Present Arms, reaching number 7 in the UK. The pub on the cover of the album is the Eagle and Tun, frequented by UB40 as it is close to their DEP International recording studios in Digbeth, Birmingham. 'One in Ten' UB40 - One in Ten. Homily Girl. The song title refers to the number 9. The song was originally written by Lord Creator, but UB40's version has become one of their signature tunes. 2005’s “Kiss and Say Goodbye” was UB40’s final single that would appear on the UK Singles chart, which peaked at number nineteen and at number sixteen on New Zealand’s Recorded Music chart. . 6, being the percentage of the local workforce claiming unemployment benefit in the West Midlands in the summer of 1981.