Umbrella Beach may have flopped, but Owl did get another top 100 hit after Fireflies. Vanilla Twilight made #94.

 

Oh and Modjo's Lady went to number 1 with Chillin flopping at 12.

Exactly right! :lol: Diana going 1-36 reminded of Kelly also, so I went from there! Sorry for taking your idea. :kink:

 

Whilst the positions are the same, what's more shocking is that Diana had a lot of airplay, video play and promotion, where was Kelly Clarkson (I think) only got some medium video rotation for the song, and didn't get playlisted by Radio 1. I don't know why Diana flopped so hard. Maybe people just don't like her voice on the song or the song itself.

Edited July 25, 201014 yr by cookie_monster

Whilst the positions are the same, what's more shocking is that Diana had a lot of airplay, video play and promotion, where was Kelly Clarkson (I think) only got some medium video rotation for the song, and didn't get playlisted by Radio 1. I don't know why Diana flopped so hard. Maybe people just don't like her voice on the song or the song.

 

'I Do Not Hook Up' WAS playlisted by Radio 1, 'Already Gone' wasn't because of what happened with 'Hook Up', which is what I expect will happen for Diana's next single.

'I Do Not Hook Up' WAS playlisted by Radio 1

 

Ah, cheers, thanks for clearing that up. Diana is still a lot more current than Kelly Clarkson was though which is why it remains odd.

What about Kate Nash? I know "Foundations" didn't get to #1, but it was still pretty huge. And the follow up "Mouthwash" bombed.

 

And Shakira "Hips Don't Lie" was #1? And "Illegal" followed, which bombed!

Razorlight and Chemical Brothers followed number ones with number 17s 'Before I Fall To Pieces' and 'Elektrobank'.

Olive 'You're Not Alone (no. 1) followed by 'Outlaw' (no. 14)

Tasmin Archer 'Sleeping Satellite' (no. 1) followed by 'In Your Care' (no. 16)

DJ Casper 'Cha Cha Slide' (no. 1) followed by 'Oops Upside Your Head' (no. 16)

Cornershop 'Brimful Of Asha' (no. 1) followed by 'Sleep On The Left Side' (no. 23)

Roger Sanchez 'Another Chance' (no. 1) followed by 'You Can't Change Me' (no. 25)

Sean Kingston 'Beautiful Girls' (no. 1) followed by 'Me Love' (no. 32)

 

The following failed to go top 40:

 

Tomcraft 'Loneliness' (no. 1) followed by 'Brainwashed' (no. 43)

Mario Winans 'I Don't Wanna Know' (no. 1) followed by 'Never Really Was' (no. 44)

Aneka 'Japanese Boy' (no. 1) followed by 'Little Lady' (no. 50)

Exactly right! :lol: Diana going 1-36 reminded of Kelly also, so I went from there! Sorry for taking your idea. :kink:

 

Thanks everyone for contributions :wub:

 

Same! I even posted a comparison of Kelly and Diana in the Sunday Chart Show thread. :lol:

 

I forgive you! :kink:

Sugababes - About You Now followed by Change #13.

Whilst the positions are the same, what's more shocking is that Diana had a lot of airplay, video play and promotion, where was Kelly Clarkson (I think) only got some medium video rotation for the song, and didn't get playlisted by Radio 1. I don't know why Diana flopped so hard. Maybe people just don't like her voice on the song or the song itself.

Probably because 'The Boy Who Murdered Love' sounds pretty similar to 'Once'.

Probably because 'The Boy Who Murdered Love' sounds pretty similar to 'Once'.

 

I don't think it's entirely down to that, loads of artists have released more similar sounding songs as follow-ups before and done well. I get the impression she's not very well liked when all is said and done, which is a shame.

The record is with Nicole that followed her #1 Eurovision song "A little peace" with #75 hit "Give me more time", closely followed by Jim Diamond (#1 I should have known better / #72 I sleep alone all night)

 

2003 was fertile in 2003 #1 smashes followed by flops

 

Room 5 #1 Make luv / #38 Music and you

Tomcraft #1 Loneliness / #43 Brainwashed

Blu Cantrell #1 Breathe / #24 Make me wanna scream

 

And in 1990, Beautiful South followed their only #1 hit "A little time" with #43 "My book"

Didn't it outsell/almost sell as much as Boys & Girls? :lol:

 

The one that immediately springs to my mind is Spiller following Groovejet with the diabolical Cry Baby which scraped into the top 40 for one week at #40, and shouldn't have even done that well to be honest. Groovejet ranks inside my top 50 songs of all time, this is easily in the top 50 worst :puke:

 

And that was the week that there were about 16 new entries to the top 40, so it could've ended up much higher. Thank goodness it didn't, it barely qualifies as a song.

I completely forgot about Blu! Not really surprising though, such a disappointing and forgettable song after the summer anthem that was Breathe :wub:

 

The Chemical Brothers are an interesting one as they were actually on a run of two consecutive number ones at the time, rather than the one-hit wonders that plague this thread. Same with David Guetta and Melanie C, I believe. Too many albums sold syndrome, I guess (or at least for Mel C and the Chems.)

Ignore, already posted.

Edited July 26, 201014 yr by Notso_Hampson

Unfortunately, every single that followed Sinead O'Connor's incendiary 'Nothing Compare 2U"

This thread could include frankly most of the songs since essentially most of artists flop* with second/third/whatever single after being number one.

 

A more interesting thread could be the one which listed second/third/etc. singles that topped the chart after the previous ones flopped*.

 

*not come Top 10

There are too many one or two hit wonders to mention.

 

Examples like Kelly Clarkson, Elton John, The Chemical Brothers are more interesting and I think that was the original idea.

 

Although #1 followed by a Top 15/20 single isn't really a flop imo.

 

Btw, not a number one but #2:

Michael Jackson - 'You Rock My World' ---- 'Cry' (#25)

Edited July 26, 201014 yr by SKOB

Probably because 'The Boy Who Murdered Love' sounds pretty similar to 'Once'.

 

That's true, but I don't think it's the reason why. Poker Face sounds like Just Dance, Frisky sounds like Pass Out, etc. I think most people who'd consider buying Diana's song would've bought her album. She suffered a lot from that I think. Unlike Love the Way You Lie, for example, which is off a massively selling album, but appeals to an audience who'd never consider buying the album, if that makes sense.