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!
Tove Lo's 'Talking Body' should have been a huge #01; the same with Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Run Away with Me'
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
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.
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.
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 it got to 13 on sales only chart so streaming obviously killed it off
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
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.
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)
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.
I agree - Ex's & Oh's should have been top 10!!
Even the legendary Mr Brightside only spent one week at number 10, and then never returned to the top 25 again
avicii ~ 'for a better day' & 'broken arrows' should've been massive top5 smashes~
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.
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.
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.
Basically every song I've ever liked that didn't get to number 1.
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
Chainsmokers - Roses .... Thought this would be bigger than top 20
Zedd feat Selena Gomez - I Want You To Know ... Still listen to this daily... Again didn't even go top 10
Eva Simons - Silly Boy ... Not even top 40
Little Mix Move
Isn't this just a thread for listing all your favourite flops? I could literally name hundreds
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
Free Fallin' by Tom Petty. Never even charted in the top 60 until 2012 - and even then only got to number 59
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
Bakermat's Teach Me deserved a lot higher than #22, very catchy.
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.
Go by The Chemical Brothers. one of the best dance tracks of 2015 and didn't make the top 40.
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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