July 26, 201014 yr CHICANE Don't Give Up #1 No Ordinary Morning #28 BLACK LEGEND You See The Trouble With Me #1 Somebody #37 ROGER SANCHEZ Another Chance #1 You Can't Change Me #25 BOB THE BUILDER Mambo No. 5 #1 Big Fish Little Fish #81 JUNKIE XL A Little Less Conversation #1 Catch Up To My Step #63 DANIEL BEDINGFIELD Never Gonnna Leave Your Side #1 Friday #28 LMC Take Me To The Clouds Above #1 Get What You Give #30 ERIC PRYDZ Call On Me #1 Woz Not Woz #55 STEVE BROOKSTEIN Against All Odds #1 Fighting Butterflies #193 TUPAC Ghetto Gospel #1 Pac's Life #21 NIZLOPI JCB Song #1 Girls #91 NOTORIOUS B.I.G Nasty Girl #1 Spit Your Game #64 MECK Thunder In My Heart Again #1 Feels Like Home #39 KANYE WEST Stronger #1 Good Life #23 KATIE MELUA What A Wonderful World #1 If The Lights Go Out #96 ESTELLE American Boy #1 No Substitute Love #30 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida #1 Lost! #54
July 26, 201014 yr Flo Rida 'Right Round' #1 'Sugar' #18 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 Probably the best example of that would be David Guetta. 'Everytime We Touch' #68 'When Love Takes Over' #1 I've never understood how Guetta went from being practically a nobody to being OMG HUGE in such a short space of time here (although he had been pretty big prior to EWT, just nowhere near as big as he became in the One Love era) EDIT: For clarification, WLTO was released only 20 weeks after EWT Edited July 26, 201014 yr by Bray Doolittle
July 26, 201014 yr Firstly: BOB THE BUILDER Mambo No. 5 #1 Big Fish Little Fish #81 WTF? Secondly: I think flops following number 1 hits that aren't the debut single off an album (e.g. Bedingfield's Friday, or Pixie if you include top 15s as a flop), aren't as 'floppy' since there's usually 'diminishing returns' with most artists, it's surely more surprising that (example) Bedingfield even had a 3rd number one after 4 singles and a big album.
July 26, 201014 yr Oh and Modjo's Lady went to number 1 with Chillin flopping at 12. #12 isn't a flop
July 26, 201014 yr Flo Rida 'Right Round' #1 'Sugar' #18 Probably the best example of that would be David Guetta. 'Everytime We Touch' #68 'When Love Takes Over' #1 I've never understood how Guetta went from being practically a nobody to being OMG HUGE in such a short space of time here (although he had been pretty big prior to EWT, just nowhere near as big as he became in the One Love era) EDIT: For clarification, WLTO was released only 20 weeks after EWT Those 2 are not from the same album -_-
July 26, 201014 yr Those 2 are not from the same album -_- ...did I ever say they were? Pop Life was hardly a huge album either...
July 26, 201014 yr So from this we can gather that Steve Brookstein holds the record from the biggest flop after a #1? Honestly he must have sold 10 copies to make the top 200 in 2006 as that was a low scoring year!
July 26, 201014 yr ...did I ever say they were? no, but Ljósið was talking about second/third singles doing better than firsts
July 26, 201014 yr Owl City's flop is just odd. Biggest selling UK single of the year, selling over 600K and topping the charts worldwide including America. Massive tune. Then the very next single can't even make the top 100. :lol:
July 26, 201014 yr Owl City's flop is just odd. Biggest selling UK single of the year, selling over 600K and topping the charts worldwide including America. Massive tune. Then the very next single can't even make the top 100. :lol: The reason why... The UK is lazy. It happened with Plain White T's and (in a way) Metro Station. They have one hit, and then no-ones interested.
July 26, 201014 yr Yeah this thread is a bit pointless. I find it MUCH more interesting when a song randomly becomes a hit when the predecessor flops, it's hard to even think of any examples for that.
July 26, 201014 yr Owl City's flop is just odd. Biggest selling UK single of the year, selling over 600K and topping the charts worldwide including America. Massive tune. Then the very next single can't even make the top 100. :lol: He's what's known as a one hit wonder, I had the feeling he was always destined to be. Nothing else he's done even compares to 'Fireflies' though, but 'Vanilla Twilight' was so obviously the more sensible choice to make than 'Umbrella Beach'.
July 26, 201014 yr Author Lol at people saying the thread is pointless - well excuse me. :P It's interested me at least to read how many singles 'flopped' after a #1 hit anyway, thanks for the contributions.
July 26, 201014 yr The UK is not 'lazy', often it is the artist who is lazy and fails to promote/spark interest or motivate their fanbase into buying their second single. In most of the cases listed above the second single was a lazy rehash of the first in a lame attempt to cash-in on the previous hit's sound. Probably not the artist in questions fault but the record companies for failing to have the balls to go for something risky/different. The most interesting* back-to-back Top 5 hits are achieved by artists who innovate and try different things for each single, and are usually taken from great albums. *Obviously there are some exceptions like Westlife but I've stricken their chart history from my memory when I had a Westlife induced lobotomy in 2007.
July 27, 201014 yr Umbrella Beach (or anything by Owl City before and after Fireflies) has flopped. Nobody has been interested. Wikipedia says the highest position has been no. 20 in The Netherlands. Edited July 27, 201014 yr by SKOB
July 27, 201014 yr #1 Stiltskin - Inside #34 Stiltskin - Footsteps #1 Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing #21 Tony Di Bart - Do It
July 27, 201014 yr Ah... A proper example of what Pavel is looking for then, is maybe Kelis? #22 'Bossy' #3 'Lil Star' Please correct me if these aren't from the same album. :P
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