AlunaGeorge - Best Be Believing
JESSIE WARE - TOUGH LOVE
Lana Del Rey - West Coast
Ariana Grande - Break Free (why did Taylor's Shake It Off chart but not this?!)
Iggy Azalea - Work
Marina and the Diamonds - How To Be A Heartbreaker
Solange - Losing You
All of BEYONCÉ's singles from the current era
Prime time by Janelle Monae and Miguel would have been huge if it was sung by say, Rihanna and Bruno Mars.
Also Call Your Girlfriend by Robyn should have made at least the top ten, same with the other Body Talk Singles.
I came in just to mention Call your Girlfriend, I really think that song could have been massive under a different set of circumstances. I still listen to it all the time!
I also kind of agree with J Lo and Papi. It's a pretty bad song, but it's so infectiously energetic and always makes me smile.
Break Even - The Script (Number 21)
LoveGame - Lady Gaga (Number 19)
Some Kind of Bliss - Kylie Minogue (Number 22)
Looking back it's very surprising that Breakeven didn't even go top 20 because it still seems to very regularly do the rounds on the radio. I hear it very often considering it didn't chart particularly well.
Portishead - Glory Box
Massive Attack - Protection
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Bjork - Play Dead, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy
Alanis Morissette - You Learn, Ironic, Hands Clean, Hand In My Pocket
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
Scarlet - Independent Love Song
Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner
The Human League - One Man in My Heart
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Dubstar - Not So Manic Now
Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight, The Bitch Is Back
Florence and the Machine - Never Let Me Go
Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty on the Fire
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Seven Wonders
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
The Cranberries - Linger, Dreams, Ode to my Family, Zombie
Portishead - Glory Box
Massive Attack - Protection
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Bjork - Play Dead, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy
Alanis Morissette - You Learn, Ironic, Hands Clean, Hand In My Pocket
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
Scarlet - Independent Love Song
Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner
The Human League - One Man in My Heart
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Dubstar - Not So Manic Now
Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight, The Bitch Is Back
Florence and the Machine - Never Let Me Go
Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty on the Fire
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Seven Wonders
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
The Cranberries - Linger, Dreams, Ode to my Family, Zombie[/QUOTE
Portishead - Glory Box
Massive Attack - Protection
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Bjork - Play Dead, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy
Alanis Morissette - You Learn, Ironic, Hands Clean, Hand In My Pocket
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
Scarlet - Independent Love Song
Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner
The Human League - One Man in My Heart
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Dubstar - Not So Manic Now
Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight, The Bitch Is Back
Florence and the Machine - Never Let Me Go
Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty on the Fire
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Seven Wonders
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
The Cranberries - Linger, Dreams, Ode to my Family, Zombie
All the ones I've highlighted in bold are the ones I am most surprised were not top ten as to me they seemed like really popular tunes I just naturally assumed they were top ten.
Another song that wasn't a Top Ten on its original release was Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson. Only got to No.22 in 1988 but was Top Ten in 2009 after his death.
All the ones I've highlighted in bold are the ones I am most surprised were not top ten as to me they seemed like really popular tunes I just naturally assumed they were top ten.
Another song that wasn't a Top Ten on its original release was Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson. Only got to No.22 in 1988 but was Top Ten in 2009 after his death.
It just goes to show you that chart positions aren't the be-all and end-all.
A few more:
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is a Winding Road
Eagles - Take It to the Limit
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
The Mamas and the Papas - I Saw Her Again, Dream a Little Dream of Me
The La's - There She Goes
David Bowie - Heroes
Natalie Imbruglia - Wishing I Was There
Whitney Houston - Step by Step
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Supremes - Love Child
Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5, Here You Come Again
The Carpenters - Superstar, For All We Know
Stevie Wonder - Superstition, Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Journey - Open Arms
Some of these did chart as cover songs by other artists years later.
Such a catchy song, sounded great, Kano fitted in perfectly, audience friendly vid. Everyone who heard it said they liked it. Reached No 38. WHY??
(I dont understand youngsters taste these days- I mean something as abysmal as Rude can get to No 1 & this barely made top 40)
Prime time by Janelle Monae and Miguel would have been huge if it was sung by say, Rihanna and Bruno Mars.
Thank GOD it wasn't. I'd rather have that song be perfect the way it is with Jane and Miguel. You're so right though, that song is FAR too good to have gone so unnoticed Tbh it's the same with most of her singles, I wish that that Got to Dance advert had really boosted Dance Apocalyptic.
All of "The Electric Lady" singles deserved to be Top 10!
Yeah, but that was the ninth and final single release from "Bad", at a time when most albums had between two and four physical single releases and five was milking it.
Later single releases from albums generally followed the trend of diminishing (sales) returns, so it's amazing that it was worth their time releasing 9 of the 11 "Bad" tracks as singles, or even that the last got as high as #13!
...this was just a catchy pop song, not critic fodder. Yet I still remember it being popular at the time and I would have assumed it was definitely top 10 and almost certainly top 5.
Should have been Top 10? IMHO, that song didn't even deserve to chart!
First time I heard it, I couldn't believe *any* major-label band would release something that started with a "piano" so obviously- and horribly- fake-sounding.
It sounds *exactly* like someone programmed a keyboard to repeat the same identical, thin "piano" note at perfectly-spaced intervals. It's not even "overpolished", it sounds totally underproduced, like a "metronome" guide track even a computer music n00b could set up in 30 seconds.
The digital soullessness is worse in this context, because it's entirely unsuited to an emotional ballad.
The singing itself is also horrible; the manufactured, stock "sensitive" and "emotional" enunciation the singer puts on is as calculated, fake and synthetic as the horrid intro.
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http://youtu.be/1MifMrBCBR8
Kylie Minogue - Did It Again
http://youtu.be/PPzuegmN1mE
Dannii Minogue - Everything I Wanted
http://youtu.be/Fb_tA0VajVg
I know I love Papi. Such a belter of a tune.
JESSIE WARE - TOUGH LOVE
Lana Del Rey - West Coast
Ariana Grande - Break Free (why did Taylor's Shake It Off chart but not this?!)
Iggy Azalea - Work
Marina and the Diamonds - How To Be A Heartbreaker
Solange - Losing You
All of BEYONCÉ's singles from the current era
http://youtu.be/F1NBpVKWh_c
LoveGame - Lady Gaga (Number 19)
Some Kind of Bliss - Kylie Minogue (Number 22)
I came in just to mention Call your Girlfriend, I really think that song could have been massive under a different set of circumstances. I still listen to it all the time!
I also kind of agree with J Lo and Papi. It's a pretty bad song, but it's so infectiously energetic and always makes me smile.
Looking back it's very surprising that Breakeven didn't even go top 20 because it still seems to very regularly do the rounds on the radio. I hear it very often considering it didn't chart particularly well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdcI63mr3I0
Massive Attack - Protection
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Bjork - Play Dead, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy
Alanis Morissette - You Learn, Ironic, Hands Clean, Hand In My Pocket
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
Scarlet - Independent Love Song
Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner
The Human League - One Man in My Heart
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Dubstar - Not So Manic Now
Elton John - Can You Feel the Love Tonight, The Bitch Is Back
Florence and the Machine - Never Let Me Go
Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty on the Fire
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Gypsy, Sara, Rhiannon, Seven Wonders
Placebo - Every You Every Me
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Tina Turner - Private Dancer
Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
The Cranberries - Linger, Dreams, Ode to my Family, Zombie
http://youtu.be/Ju8Hr50Ckwk
Beyoncé - Love On Top & Me, Myself and I
http://youtu.be/Ob7vObnFUJc
http://youtu.be/4S37SGxZSMc
All the ones I've highlighted in bold are the ones I am most surprised were not top ten as to me they seemed like really popular tunes I just naturally assumed they were top ten.
Another song that wasn't a Top Ten on its original release was Man In The Mirror by Michael Jackson. Only got to No.22 in 1988 but was Top Ten in 2009 after his death.
It just goes to show you that chart positions aren't the be-all and end-all.
A few more:
Air Supply - All Out of Love
Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is a Winding Road
Eagles - Take It to the Limit
Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
The Mamas and the Papas - I Saw Her Again, Dream a Little Dream of Me
The La's - There She Goes
David Bowie - Heroes
Natalie Imbruglia - Wishing I Was There
Whitney Houston - Step by Step
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Supremes - Love Child
Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
Dolly Parton - 9 to 5, Here You Come Again
The Carpenters - Superstar, For All We Know
Stevie Wonder - Superstition, Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Journey - Open Arms
Some of these did chart as cover songs by other artists years later.
Kylie's Did it Again, Breathe, and Get Outta My Way should have been top 10 too.
Such a catchy song, sounded great, Kano fitted in perfectly, audience friendly vid. Everyone who heard it said they liked it. Reached No 38. WHY??
(I dont understand youngsters taste these days- I mean something as abysmal as Rude can get to No 1 & this barely made top 40)
Did that not make Top 10? I'm very surprised! I know Avenging Angels and Ballad of Tom Jones did, and I thought this did too.
Thank GOD it wasn't. I'd rather have that song be perfect the way it is with Jane and Miguel. You're so right though, that song is FAR too good to have gone so unnoticed
All of "The Electric Lady" singles deserved to be Top 10!
http://youtu.be/4NO-h9PFum4
And Abba - The Day Before You Came
http://youtu.be/1HnOFwqpLRQ
Yeah, but that was the ninth and final single release from "Bad", at a time when most albums had between two and four physical single releases and five was milking it.
Later single releases from albums generally followed the trend of diminishing (sales) returns, so it's amazing that it was worth their time releasing 9 of the 11 "Bad" tracks as singles, or even that the last got as high as #13!
Very surprised when double-checking this showed you to be right. It only got to #13.
I remember this as being quite popular at the time, and would have assumed it was definitely top 10 at least.
Could be put down to critical favour granting it more attention than sales alone might warrant. However...
...this was just a catchy pop song, not critic fodder. Yet I still remember it being popular at the time and I would have assumed it was definitely top 10 and almost certainly top 5.
But apparently it only reached #14?!
Should have been Top 10? IMHO, that song didn't even deserve to chart!
First time I heard it, I couldn't believe *any* major-label band would release something that started with a "piano" so obviously- and horribly- fake-sounding.
It sounds *exactly* like someone programmed a keyboard to repeat the same identical, thin "piano" note at perfectly-spaced intervals. It's not even "overpolished", it sounds totally underproduced, like a "metronome" guide track even a computer music n00b could set up in 30 seconds.
The digital soullessness is worse in this context, because it's entirely unsuited to an emotional ballad.
The singing itself is also horrible; the manufactured, stock "sensitive" and "emotional" enunciation the singer puts on is as calculated, fake and synthetic as the horrid intro.
Eeeuuurgh. >:(