March 21, 201114 yr Author Talking of Take That, Mark Owen had a rather large gap between solo top ten hits didn't he? I remember the top five success of Four Minute Warning coming as something of a shock at the time seeing as he hadn't had a hit of his own for 6/7 years? It was completely deserved though, excellent pop song And I guess Gary Barlow too - Shame was his first solo credit top ten hit for 13 years!
March 22, 201114 yr Tom Jones had a gap of 12 years between lead top ten hits with A Boy From Nowhere in 1987 on one end and then Burning Down The House in 1999 on the other. Of course the parent album Reload ended up being the most successful of his career so that was QUITE the comeback and an impressive career reinvention (far better than the awful attempt a few years later with Tom Jones International :lol:) I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet - I thought this was quite a famous one! He also had a massive gap between top 10 hits from 1972 to 1987 but I think the Reload revival was more impressive despite not being as long, as that reeled off three top 10 hits and a huge album rather than just the one minor spike in success. Embrace generally faded in the late 1990s, perhaps being overshadowed by other "post-Britpop" bands like Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, etc - and had no big success at all until Gravity got top 10 in 2004. Then another #1 album with Out Of Nothing. Then their next album This New Day gave them their biggest career hit, Nature's Law. Texas are another one who followed the "Robyn mould" of kind of one-hit wonder to a much bigger act later on. Got to #8 with their debut single I Don't Want A Lover in 1989, but never came close to repeating that success with anything from their next couple of albums. Then in 1997, they changed their sound from limp rock to shiny radio pop and reaped the rewards - Say What You Want gave them the biggest hit of their career and they became commercial radio darlings for the next few years.
March 22, 201114 yr The two finalists in the 2006 number ones voting, Shakira and Nelly Furtado. Shakira - massive #2 (#1 but for Will Young), big #3, then low top 20 (2002), huge #1 in 2006 (HDL probably sold less in year of release than WW but it was as big if not bigger) Nelly Furtado - 2 top 5s in 2001, muted reception in 2003-4, huge success in 2006-7. I think these two are the most unexpected for me - if you said at the start of 2006 that Nelly and Shakira would have massive #1s by the summer, I would have doubted it. Not really a huge gap but I was really surprised how well Britney did in 2004. She had top 5s in 2001, 02 and 03, but Toxic was easily her biggest single since OIDIA. Everytime getting the #1 was even more surprising. From further back: Jefferson Airplane/Starship - not sure if they had any hit singles in the 60s but very famous and acclaimed - then 2 big hits in the late 80s
March 22, 201114 yr Obviously this is just a prediction but I shall remain hopeful! They'd make a great addition to this thread. No Doubt are bound to release their new material this Christmas and seeing how they'll likely make an appearance on The X Factor ("friends" with Simon Cowell, performed on American Idol etc) a hit should follow. That would make it almost a decade without a top ten. Hey Baby - 2011.
March 22, 201114 yr Oh YES. Robyn! how did we forget about her? :lol: I hope we can add blink-182 to this list soon! It's been too long since they last had a Top 10 hit!
March 22, 201114 yr Tom Jones had a gap of 12 years between lead top ten hits with A Boy From Nowhere in 1987 on one end and then Burning Down The House in 1999 on the other. Of course the parent album Reload ended up being the most successful of his career so that was QUITE the comeback and an impressive career reinvention (far better than the awful attempt a few years later with Tom Jones International :lol:) I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet - I thought this was quite a famous one! He also had a massive gap between top 10 hits from 1972 to 1987 but I think the Reload revival was more impressive despite not being as long, as that reeled off three top 10 hits and a huge album rather than just the one minor spike in success. And then a third massive gap between 'Sex Bomb' in 2000 and '(Barry) Islands In The Stream' in 2009, or am I missing one?
March 22, 201114 yr Author The Corrs actually had a 4 year gap between Breathless going to #1 and Summer Sunshine top ten, quite a big gap in singles chart hits for that sort of act! You'd have expected them to come back with a big album maybe but possibly not the hit single to go alongside it.
March 22, 201114 yr Tom Jones had a gap of 12 years between lead top ten hits with A Boy From Nowhere in 1987 on one end and then Burning Down The House in 1999 on the other.... I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet Are you really? This is Buzzjack you know :D Edited March 22, 201114 yr by SKOB
March 22, 201114 yr And then a third massive gap between 'Sex Bomb' in 2000 and '(Barry) Islands In The Stream' in 2009, or am I missing one? He was on 'Stoned In Love' by Chicane which was either 2007 or 2008. Not sure if he was credited though.
March 22, 201114 yr Santana - She's Not There at #11 in 1977, then in 1999 Smooth went to #3. Bananarama - More More More reached #24 in 1993, then Move In My Direction at #14 in 2005.
March 22, 201114 yr The Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship made number 16 in 1972. They didn't reach the top 40 again until Come Dancing got to number 12 in 1983.
March 22, 201114 yr Steve Miller Band have done it twice. They have had three top 40 hits - Rock 'n Me in 1976, Abracadabra in 1982 and The Joker in 1990. Steve Miller Band's son Ed is now leader of the Labour Party.
March 22, 201114 yr Embrace generally faded in the late 1990s, perhaps being overshadowed by other "post-Britpop" bands like Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, etc - and had no big success at all until Gravity got top 10 in 2004. Then another #1 album with Out Of Nothing. Then their next album This New Day gave them their biggest career hit, Nature's Law. I forgot about Embrace! "Nature's Law", should have been #1 :( I think a lot of people would like to see Blink do well on their comeback :D
March 22, 201114 yr He was on 'Stoned In Love' by Chicane which was either 2007 or 2008. Not sure if he was credited though. Oh, that was in 2006 and he was credited - that's still another 6 year gap, then a 3 year gap.
March 22, 201114 yr Kate Bush. Chart Gap 1994 - And So Is Love - No.26 - 2005 - King Of The Mountain - No.4 - 11 years. Top 10 Gap 1986 - Don't Give Up (With Peter Gabriel) - No.9 - 2005 King of the Mountain - No.4 - 19 years. And as a solo artist - 20 years - from Running Up That Hill (No.4) to the 2005 hit.
March 22, 201114 yr Roy Orbison - You Got It (#3 in 1989) was his comeback hit, 20 years after his last hit. However, he died just before the song charted.
March 23, 201114 yr Alistair Griffin :wub: Someone i never thought would even come close to troubling the charts ever again let alone get a Top 40 hit! 2004: Bring It On #5 2004: You & Me #18 2010: Just Drive #38
March 23, 201114 yr Katrina & The Waves: 1989: That's The Way #89 1989: Rock 'N' Roll Girl #93 2006: Walking On Sunshine [Re-Issue] #53 2007: Love Shine A Light #3 [12 year gap between Top 10 hits]
March 23, 201114 yr Katrina & The Waves: 1989: That's The Way #89 1989: Rock 'N' Roll Girl #93 2006: Walking On Sunshine [Re-Issue] #53 2007: Love Shine A Light #3 [12 year gap between Top 10 hits] I think your years are mixed up here. Love Shine A Light was in 1997?! What about Dusty? She only had one "hit" between 1970 and 1987 (a #61 with Baby Blue) before Pet Shop Boys revived her career on the brilliant What Have I Done To Deserve This? :heart: She later went on to have two more top 20 hits off her own back in 1989. Not bad for a woman who was around 50 at the time and considered a mere relic of the 1960s! The gap between "chart appearances" was only 8 years, but a massive 19-year gap between top 10 hits! As for Cher, she had a 13-year gap between chart appearances from Dark Lady in 1974 to I Found Someone in 1987. In terms of top 10 hits the gap stretches even further to 16 years (to Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves [amazing song!] in 1971). Although she did have an uncredited appearance on Meat Loaf's Dead Ringer For Love during this time. Several of her songs in that period were US hits though, most notably Take Me Home which was finally a hit over here over two decades later thanks to an inferior version by one Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Also, I've just remembered Hanson and their totally random top 10 hit with Penny & Me back in 2005. Even taking into account the dire sales climate, surely there weren't so many people interested in a Hanson comeback to make this go top 10?! It's a bit like Gareth Gates coming back with a hit now. Well, clearly there weren't so many people who cared after all, as the follow-up Lost Without Each Other only got to #39. Maybe people just really liked the song *shrug*
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