Welcome, guest! Log in or register. (click here for help) If you have forgotten your password and a recovery email has not arrived, please click here to send us an email.
Flop Lead Singles |
Track this thread | Email this thread | Print this thread | Download this thread | Subscribe to this forum |
30th May 2023, 11:12 AM
Post
#21
|
|
Perfectly Pop
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 3 March 2007 Posts: 10,025 User: 3,033 |
The whole Chemistry era was cursed from Day 1!
|
|
|
15th May 2024, 12:54 PM
Post
#22
|
|
Rob aah
Joined: 3 July 2007
Posts: 39,630 User: 3,804 |
Considering all her lead singles had gone top 10 before and then 'On The Floor' of course picking back up again in 2011... This felt like a bit of a flop with 5 weeks top 40 and an #11 peak.
and since this didn't get posted here the inevitable mention of Spice Girls |
|
|
15th May 2024, 01:38 PM
Post
#23
|
|
Resident Pink Pony
Joined: 9 March 2008
Posts: 15,693 User: 5,567 |
Not in the U.K. but these Billboard Hot 100 peaks really surprised me: Britney Spears - Me Against The Music (feat. Madonna) - #35 Christina Aguilera - Dirrty (feat. Redman) - #48 Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For? - #47 all of these eras recovered across the pond later on in the campaign though! Not a complete flop per sé but Girls Aloud - 'Long Hot Summer' didn't get the Chemistry era off to the best start, their first single to miss the top 3/5, thankfully 'Biology' was a strong follow-up! Not sure what happened with Gwen there but re: Britney I vaguely remember reading about a radio ban placed on her music by one of the biggest radio companies in the US (Clearchannel?) during much of her earlier career hence why the likes of Oops and Toxic only scraped top 10 and other hits such as MATM, Slave, Everytime etc failed to chart high. I think it must have been around Gimme More or Womanizer when it got lifted. |
|
|
15th May 2024, 01:54 PM
Post
#24
|
|
Break the tension
Joined: 7 March 2006
Posts: 91,030 User: 51 |
I think Gwen's song just came at a time when pop music of that type really did not do well in the US charts (sadly), especially as she wasn't an established solo act yet.
|
|
|
15th May 2024, 03:07 PM
Post
#25
|
|
BuzzJack Legend
Joined: 13 November 2015
Posts: 34,687 User: 22,665 |
cannot be that cos single #2 went to #7, single #3 went to #1 the mega-pop Hollaback Girk
single #4 to #13, single #5 to #21, eben single #6 peaked at #49 |
|
|
15th May 2024, 03:10 PM
Post
#26
|
|
Break the tension
Joined: 7 March 2006
Posts: 91,030 User: 51 |
Yes, but those two follow-up singles were arguably more US-friendly than the camp electro-dance-pop of WYWF at that time.
This post has been edited by Jessie Where: 15th May 2024, 03:14 PM |
|
|
15th May 2024, 03:39 PM
Post
#27
|
|
Mansonette
Joined: 3 November 2009
Posts: 7,334 User: 9,872 |
Limped in at #29, gone within 2 weeks and their chart career was over |
|
|
17th May 2024, 02:18 AM
Post
#28
|
|
I found the love, I found the love in me
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 88,232 User: 5,042 |
and since this didn't get posted here the inevitable mention of Spice Girls I'll never get over the disappointment I had when I heard this song for the first time. It didn't help when it was being hyped up beforehand as a "Spice Girls classic"... I've just relistened to it for the first time in years and years and... it's still shit. Mel C's parts are the only great parts (shock horror) - although I really love Mel B's harmonies (well that's in general tbh).So disappointinggggg </3 |
|
|
17th May 2024, 11:50 AM
Post
#29
|
|
Resident Pink Pony
Joined: 9 March 2008
Posts: 15,693 User: 5,567 |
I'll never get over the disappointment I had when I heard this song for the first time. It didn't help when it was being hyped up beforehand as a "Spice Girls classic"... I've just relistened to it for the first time in years and years and... it's still shit. Mel C's parts are the only great parts (shock horror) - although I really love Mel B's harmonies (well that's in general tbh). So disappointinggggg </3 Me too!! I remember it was already unlikely they’d get a #1 album with their GHs because of Spirit but I was so banking on them getting another top 2 hit… until I actually heard it! Didn’t it chart a couple weeks before its physical release and enter at like #20 to climb only to #11 a fortnight later? |
|
|
19th May 2024, 12:09 PM
Post
#30
|
|
It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
Joined: 1 February 2011
Posts: 55,909 User: 12,915 |
Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) wasn't that a Children In Need song??
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 12:11 PM
Post
#31
|
|
Rob aah
Joined: 3 July 2007
Posts: 39,630 User: 3,804 |
It was yeah.
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 01:21 PM
Post
#32
|
|
Buffy/Charmed
Joined: 18 April 2013
Posts: 45,251 User: 18,639 |
It was also a flop
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 01:46 PM
Post
#33
|
|
Perfectly Pop
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 3 March 2007 Posts: 10,025 User: 3,033 |
Headlines… I mean…
It could have been Voodoo |
|
|
19th May 2024, 03:40 PM
Post
#34
|
|
Break the tension
Joined: 7 March 2006
Posts: 91,030 User: 51 |
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 04:12 PM
Post
#35
|
|
Buffy/Charmed
Joined: 18 April 2013
Posts: 45,251 User: 18,639 |
They had a song called Spice is Back ans coild have waited dor December Somg too!!!
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 04:21 PM
Post
#36
|
|
Resident Pink Pony
Joined: 9 March 2008
Posts: 15,693 User: 5,567 |
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 04:22 PM
Post
#37
|
|
baddest of them all
Joined: 2 August 2008
Posts: 22,788 User: 6,764 |
Long Hot Summer walked so Biology could run
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 04:53 PM
Post
#38
|
|
"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
Pronouns: he/him
Joined: 4 April 2007 Posts: 42,516 User: 3,217 |
Headlines is perfectly pleasant Undeniably a flop by their standards, not a good lead single choice or a comeback after years away and out of place with the styles of 2007. But, yeaaars after the fact, I really don't think it's the sore thumb that it's made out to be... it feels comfortably at home amongst the ballads on the Greatest Hits album.
|
|
|
19th May 2024, 06:32 PM
Post
#39
|
|
Perfectly Pop
Pronouns: He/Him
Joined: 3 March 2007 Posts: 10,025 User: 3,033 |
Headlines is perfectly pleasant Undeniably a flop by their standards, not a good lead single choice or a comeback after years away and out of place with the styles of 2007. But, yeaaars after the fact, I really don't think it's the sore thumb that it's made out to be... it feels comfortably at home amongst the ballads on the Greatest Hits album. Agree with this. |
|
|
Time is now: 24th September 2024, 10:50 AM |
Copyright © 2006 - 2024 BuzzJack.com