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BuzzJack Music Forum _ UK Charts _ Should've charted higher

Posted by: cqmerqn May 15 2016, 12:05 AM

Ok so I don't think I see anything that matches this so I thought that I'd do it!

Basically all we have to do is mention songs that maybe didn't do as well as you had hoped in the charts and say what chart position you would've liked it to have achieved.


I'll start off with Zara Larsson & MNEK - Never Forget You. Did well in the charts but I wanted it to crack the top 3 badly!

Posted by: jase. May 15 2016, 12:14 AM

Tove Lo's 'Talking Body' should have been a huge #01; the same with Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Run Away with Me' sad.gif

Posted by: cqmerqn May 15 2016, 12:16 AM

Ugh I wish Talking Body got at least top 10! Run Away With Me was one of my favourite songs of that year.. It's a shame it didn't take off sad.gif

Body Talk by Foxes only reached 25 due to streaming. Such a feel good, unique track which felt like it had top 5 written all over it.

Posted by: OutstandingMixer May 15 2016, 01:04 AM

I wanted and expected 'Something New' to do much better than it did. Although it got to #2, it had an abysmal chart run, and hasn't even sold 200k. I expected a much chart performance for a comeback single from the biggest girl group of the 21st century.

I also wanted 'DNA' to do much better than it did. It got to #3, and has sold around 300k, but it didn't have great longevity. I really wanted 'DNA' to get #1, then 'Something New' to get there the following week, but it wasn't to be. Unfortunately, 'Little Things' and 'Troublemaker' got there instead. sad.gif

Posted by: cqmerqn May 15 2016, 10:36 AM

I wanted DNA to get number one too.

I really wanted Ellie Goulding's 'Army' to break the top ten at least. The song had so much potential with the amazing lyrics but only scraped a top 20 placing sad.gif it got to 13 on sales only chart so streaming obviously killed it off

Posted by: danG May 15 2016, 10:54 AM

these non-top 20s immeditately come to mind, in terms of songs that were more popular than their peak suggested:

Shakira ft Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
Stromae - Alors On Danse [this would've been huge if they made an official English version]
Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk
DJ Fresh ft Ce'Cile - Gold Dust

Posted by: JCM20 May 15 2016, 05:19 PM

I wish Heaven Is a Halfpipe had at least made the top 3, Chasing Cars at least the top, and Stacy's Mom the top 10. Those are my three favourite songs of all time.

Posted by: Jack Murs May 15 2016, 05:36 PM

Alphabeat - DJ (#116)
Gwen Stefani - Make Me Like You (#140)
Elle King - Ex's & Oh's (#15- Okay this went Top 20 but should've been Top 10 at least)

Posted by: Dobbo May 15 2016, 05:42 PM

Capital Cities - Safe & Sound & The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather are 2 examples of tracks that would be absolutely massive here in the streaming age.

They would have both performed similarly to Stressed Out IMO, which of course would likely have missed the top 40 altogether back in the old school release strategy days.

Posted by: cqmerqn May 15 2016, 06:02 PM

I agree - Ex's & Oh's should have been top 10!!

Posted by: JCM20 May 15 2016, 07:51 PM

Even the legendary Mr Brightside only spent one week at number 10, and then never returned to the top 25 again

Posted by: Ethan May 15 2016, 08:07 PM

avicii ~ 'for a better day' & 'broken arrows' should've been massive top5 smashes~ sob.gif

Posted by: danG May 15 2016, 08:37 PM

QUOTE(Ethan @ May 15 2016, 09:07 PM) *
avicii ~ 'for a better day' & 'broken arrows' should've been massive top5 smashes~ sob.gif

such a huge injustice for 'Broken Arrows' in particular sad.gif As great as FABD is, that shouldn't have got a single release as it killed the momentum Avicii had with 'The Nights'/'Waiting For Love'. I'm sure if they released 'Broken Arrows' a few weeks before the album dropped instead, it would've been another top 20 for him.

Posted by: timjimlee May 15 2016, 09:27 PM

It's an oldie but surely "Maniac" by Michael Sembello "should have charted higher" than number 43 !

Evidence: Got to number 1 in US, Still gets the occasional outing on tv/radio, Appeared in a successful film.

Posted by: 360Jupiter May 15 2016, 09:57 PM

I'm still surprised (not from sales reports, but from impact) that Years and Years' Shine didn't get #1 although King did, because to my ears it's the far superior song. I know it was pipped to the post by the chart day change.

Another one surprising to me is Cheap Thrills becoming Sia's highest charting single, beating both Chandelier and Elastic Heart, that both seemed to be huge. Bet she didn't see coming getting her highest charting song 16 years into her career, after already having had her big comeback moment.

CHVRCHES not having had a top 10 or top 20 hit yet is also surprising to me because they seem to be a pretty high profile indie/electropop band for having had so little singles chart success. Did they ever have a big streaming song before streaming was incorporated into the chart? (I didn't follow that chart until it became incorporated) They seem to be very well known on social media.

Lady Gaga's G.U.Y., I suppose, completely flopping. Although that album campaign was a shambles, she was still a big name, and with a huge video production you would've expected it to have gone at least top 40 on her name alone. I guess there was a big hatedom focused on her at the time or it was badly marketed/promoted?

One Direction songs, in general. For a band touted as the next big thing for basically their whole career, they've had surprisingly little chart impact in terms of #1s compared to 90s and 00s smash boybands like Take That, Westlife or the Backstreet Boys. Only 4 #1s in total in five years; their debut, the Ed Sheeran-penned one released around Christmas, a Children in Need charity single, and Drag Me Down, their big comeback single after Zayn left.

Posted by: slowdown73 May 15 2016, 11:23 PM

Christina Perri - Human
Birdy - Keeping your head up
Kylie - Into the blue

There are lots of songs these days which don't even chart and deserve much greater success.

Posted by: Colm May 16 2016, 06:03 AM

Basically every song I've ever liked that didn't get to number 1.

Posted by: Robbie May 16 2016, 07:31 AM

QUOTE(timjimlee @ May 15 2016, 10:27 PM) *
It's an oldie but surely "Maniac" by Michael Sembello "should have charted higher" than number 43 !

Evidence: Got to number 1 in US, Still gets the occasional outing on tv/radio, Appeared in a successful film.
Another 1980s movie song that should have charted much higher is 'Danger Zone' by Kenny Loggins (from "Top Gun"). It peaked at number 45 in a 11 week Top 75 chart run in late 1986 / early 1987. It was also certified Silver a few weeks ago for sales of 200,000, all of which are from the digital era (November 2004+). The Silver certification is even more astonishing as it has never charted inside the Top 200 during this time.

Posted by: Joe. May 16 2016, 07:40 AM

QUOTE(Colm @ May 16 2016, 07:03 AM) *
Basically every song I've ever liked that didn't get to number 1.


Agree with Colm here.

This is the reason I have difficulty with threads like this, I probably have a list of about 500 of my favourite songs, only a small fraction probably made #1, so I'd obviously wish the rest made it to #1.

Posted by: 777666jason May 16 2016, 08:08 AM

3 that's instantly spring to mind are

Idina menzel- let it go. It s sales suggest it was much more massive than a number 11
Adele - set fire to the rain same reason
Steps 5 6 7 8 its so iconic im always shocked when i hear it only peaked at 14

Posted by: jazzy_765 May 16 2016, 08:39 AM

Chainsmokers - Roses .... Thought this would be bigger than top 20 sad.gif

Zedd feat Selena Gomez - I Want You To Know ... Still listen to this daily... Again didn't even go top 10 sad.gif

Eva Simons - Silly Boy ... Not even top 40

Posted by: XhannahlongX May 16 2016, 11:22 AM

Little Mix Move

Posted by: Mango May 16 2016, 11:39 AM

Isn't this just a thread for listing all your favourite flops? I could literally name hundreds laugh.gif

Posted by: Dobbo May 16 2016, 12:07 PM

QUOTE(Mango @ May 16 2016, 11:39 PM) *
Isn't this just a thread for listing all your favourite flops? I could literally name hundreds laugh.gif


That seems to be what it has become. This reminds me of the infamous "desperate attempts to get a hit" thread where everyone just listed songs they didn't like!

Posted by: Dangerous Cody May 16 2016, 02:04 PM

I think by living in the US and following charts like these has made me think that songs that have peaked lower in the UK seem bigger in a yearly scale than they really were. I've seen "Talking Body" being mentioned and that's a GIANT example. I think "Love Me Harder", "Roses", "Same Old Love" and many more fit the bill as well.

Posted by: Jack Murs May 16 2016, 02:13 PM

QUOTE(timjimlee @ May 15 2016, 10:27 PM) *
It's an oldie but surely "Maniac" by Michael Sembello "should have charted higher" than number 43 !


For some reason I thought this got to number 2!

Posted by: Mango May 16 2016, 03:21 PM

If we're talking about songs that charted a lot lower than people expected, then you just have to look at 'Brown Eyed Girl' (#60) and 'Summer of 69' (#42)

Posted by: Scene May 16 2016, 03:43 PM

Solange - "Losing You" - in my opinion it is far superior to almost anything her sister released up to that point. It was A-Listed on Radio 1 (if I remember correctly) and I think it got some belated attention during Glastonbury coverage on the BBC which saw it climb on iTunes but it just didn't do anything in the official charts. I know Solange is on an independent label but the song received huge critical acclaim. sad.gif

Michael Jackson - "Thriller" - I know it was one of the later singles of the album campaign but for such an iconic song with an equally iconic video, a #10 peak just seems a bit odd on paper.

Posted by: Ja˙ May 16 2016, 04:06 PM

Agree with Colm/Joe in that I could probably name a huge number of singles here, but nevertheless one that springs to mind is 'Think About It' by Melanie C. Entering and peaking at #95 made it the lowest charting single of her UK chart career up to that point (September 2011), which was highly unjustified for what I'd consider to be one of her strongest and most "commercial-sounding" songs. sob.gif

Posted by: Colm May 16 2016, 04:50 PM

QUOTE(Mango @ May 16 2016, 04:21 PM) *
If we're talking about songs that charted a lot lower than people expected, then you just have to look at 'Brown Eyed Girl' (#60) and 'Summer of 69' (#42)



I was thinking that too - and also Losing My Religion, Fields of Gold.

Posted by: Jack Murs May 16 2016, 05:28 PM

QUOTE(Scene @ May 16 2016, 04:43 PM) *
Solange - "Losing You" - in my opinion it is far superior to almost anything her sister released up to that point. It was A-Listed on Radio 1 (if I remember correctly) and I think it got some belated attention during Glastonbury coverage on the BBC which saw it climb on iTunes but it just didn't do anything in the official charts. I know Solange is on an independent label but the song received huge critical acclaim. sad.gif

Michael Jackson - "Thriller" - I know it was one of the later singles of the album campaign but for such an iconic song with an equally iconic video, a #10 peak just seems a bit odd on paper.


Totally agree, especially "Thriller". Also, I loved Solanges' "Sandcastle Disco" too which reached #149

Posted by: cqmerqn May 16 2016, 05:49 PM

Kygo - Stole The Show

This had top ten written all over it! Why didn't it happen??


Kygo - Firestone

Should have been number 1 instead of top 10

Posted by: JCM20 May 16 2016, 07:26 PM

Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. Never even charted in the top 60 until 2012 - and even then only got to number 59

Posted by: happyintheuk May 18 2016, 12:44 PM

Ah well going back a bit on this, but
Accident Prone by Status Quo only hitting No.36
Always the Sun by the Stranglers
I Want You To Want Me by Cheap Trick

Posted by: zenon May 18 2016, 03:45 PM

Bakermat's Teach Me deserved a lot higher than #22, very catchy.

Posted by: andeeeeyhart May 18 2016, 04:10 PM

QUOTE(cqmerqn @ May 16 2016, 06:49 PM) *
Kygo - Stole The Show

This had top ten written all over it! Why didn't it happen??
Kygo - Firestone

Should have been number 1 instead of top 10


I'd also say Stay and Here For You deserved much higher.

Posted by: cqmerqn May 18 2016, 04:16 PM

QUOTE(zenon @ May 18 2016, 04:45 PM) *
Bakermat's Teach Me deserved a lot higher than #22, very catchy.

Reminds me of Bakermat's 'Bullit' which should have at least reached the top 5!

Posted by: Dobbo May 18 2016, 05:51 PM

QUOTE(cqmerqn @ May 19 2016, 04:16 AM) *
Reminds me of Bakermat's 'Bullit' which should have at least reached the top 5!


That was Watermät! tongue.gif

Posted by: vancey May 19 2016, 05:58 PM

I was also shocked at Girls Aloud - Something New not being a bigger hit. It came on shuffle the other day and I forgot how good a pop song it was.

The Saturdays - Notorious, at the time, I think could've been a much bigger hit for them had it not been released OA/OS which was a fairly new thing at the time.
Ciara - Work, my jam of 2009, such a shame it didn't make the Top 40.

Posted by: cqmerqn May 21 2016, 09:16 AM

QUOTE(Dobbo @ May 18 2016, 06:51 PM) *
That was Watermät! tongue.gif

*hides face in shame* mellow.gif

Posted by: TheSnake Jun 1 2016, 12:34 PM

Go by The Chemical Brothers. one of the best dance tracks of 2015 and didn't make the top 40.

Posted by: cqmerqn Jul 4 2016, 08:21 AM

Major Lazer X Ellie Goulding - Powerful

I could never understand why this wasn't a smash hit, given both of their success during 2015!
Incredible song too.

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