Alexandra Burke 'Goodnight, Goodbye' - It had hit written all over it - Reminds me a bit of I'm into You :wub:

Kate Nash - Paris! It had HIT written all over it IMO, and it charted at #187 when the album was released due to strong downloads. Shame it never got released. And the next 2 singles (after Do-Wah-Doo) failed to chart...

 

Lucie Silvas - Twisting The Chain, Something About You

Alexandra Burke 'Goodnight, Goodbye' - It had hit written all over it - Reminds me a bit of I'm into You :wub:

 

agree with that

Bound to you - From the burlesque soundtrack.

 

I thought I'd do the should-have-been-singles by my favourite artists:

 

Leona Lewis

Take A Bow Spirit

Yesterday Spirit

Don't Let Me Down (feat. Justin Timberlake) Echo

Outta My Head Echo

Can't Breathe Echo

 

Rihanna

Kisses Don't Lie A Girl Like Me

Breakin' Dishes Good Girl Gone Bad

Cry Good Girl Gone Bad

Photographs Rated R

Man Down Loud

 

Katy Perry

Self Inflicted One Of The Boys

The One That Got Away Teenage Dream

Circle The Drain Teenage Dream

 

Beyonce

Ring The Alarm B'Day

Scared Of Lonely I Am...Sasha Fierce

 

Kelly Clarkson

Gone Breakaway

You Found Me Breakaway

Sober My December

Cry All I Ever Wanted

Long Shot All I Ever Wanted

Oh I've also missed off this beauty from N-Dubz 'Love. Live. Life' album...

 

 

They should stick to giving Tulisa solo's tbh.

Lady GaGa - Dance In The Dark

 

Yeah definitely, although I think I read somewhere recently that the record company wanted to release this, but Gaga wanted Alejandro, and what Gaga wants, Gaga gets!

 

Someone Wake Me Up aside, this is a great track and really should have been released. Ambitions should have been forgotten altogether.

 

No, if we're talking Joe McElderry, the Ambitions B-side 'If You Love Me' should have been the single, to this day it still baffles me why they didn't go with that, and relegated it to a B-side instead, I'm almost certain it would have been Number 1, it's just unbelievably catchy:

 

 

Professor Green ft. Labirinth - Oh My God (Alive 'Til I'm Dead) - How the awful Jungle beat it to be a single I'll never know!

 

Beyonce - Radio (I Am... Sasha Fierce) - I mean Diva, Ego and Videophone over this? TRAVESTY!

 

I wouldn't call Jungle awful, but Oh My God definitely would have done better in the charts.

 

Radio by Beyonce should definitely have been a single.

 

Britney Spears - Breathe On Me. Best track she has ever recorded, could've been huge with critics, radio and fans.

Girls Aloud - Girl Overboard. The obvious 4th single.

 

Wow, forgot about Breath On Me, I remember thinking at the time what an obvious single choice it was.

 

With Girls Aloud, yeah Girl Overboard would have been good, but for me Miss You Bow Wow from the Out Of Control album should have been a single.

 

Also, 'Let's Get Ugly' from the Wanted's album would have made a really obvious single.

 

I'm sure there's literally hundreds more we could all come up with...

It seems that both Stutter and I Can't lie are going to end up as unreleased album tracks with immense potential, both off of Hands All Over by Maroon 5.

Gaga - Dance in the Dark :cry:

 

Before it got released I was gunning for Cosmic Love off "Lungs" also. Glad it eventually did get released :wub:

Speaking of Florence

 

I felt Hospital beds should of been released. Fantastic song personally.

Others:

 

The Prodigy - Colours Invaders Must Die

Jennifer Lopez - Step Into My World Rebirth

Pink - Dear Mr. President I'm Not Dead

Kelis - Keep It Down Tasty

Edited June 21, 201114 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes

Britney - Before The Goodbye / Cant Make You Love Me/ Where Are You Now/ Breathe On Me/ Hot As Ice / Toy Soldier/ AMNESIA AMNESIA AMNESIA!!!!!!!!! :angry:

Pink - Dear Mr. President I'm Not Dead

 

Surprised it was not released in the UK. It was absolutely huge e.g. in Austria(1), Germany(3), Switzerland(3), Belgium(1). It was the 5th single from "I'm not dead" there and also the most successfull one! :o

Edited June 23, 201114 yr by steps

Pink - Bad influence

Britney - Baby boy ( a song that never made the final cut from blackout, i can understand why as it would of felt out of place as Blackout was an unbeat album but i liked this song and the lyrics. It was about her breakup with Kevin.)

Edited June 23, 201114 yr by David John

I know this is from a lot further back than what everyone is talking about, but the most popular non-single track is widely believed to be Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl which regularly polls highly on Radiod 2 pollls and the like.

I have to admit not being very familiar with any track that wasn't a single, despite owning a fair few albums. One album I'm very familiar with though is Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance and I've always thought that despite it's obviously quite depressing subject matter that 'Cancer' would've made a very sublime single as it's so poignant. Or maybe not? 'Mama' would've made a very good rockier one to follow Teenagers maybe? I also think that 'Teenagers' should've been 2nd or maybe even first, I've played the album to many friends who aren't familiar with MCR and it's always Teenagers they particularly like or remark on. I don't really know why they made 'Famous Last Words' a single though. Even 'Disenchanted' would've been a better single, I love how it starts as a sort of ballad almost and then bursts into the rockier bit.

BTW someone mentioned Pixie Lott's Rollin Stone, I'm pretty sure that it WAS a single. I remember spending my free promotional credit on it on my mobile when whichever network I was on at the time launched a download facility. In any case it was my ring tone for a while after, but I had to change cos I kept enjoyin the music and forgetting I was meant to answer the fone when I heard it lol.

And as for Lily Allen, I do think F**k You would've made a good single but was probably seen as too controversial to promote, rather like Alfie from the first album which was relegated to a b-side of another (3rd?) single despite being the best track on the album. I was at the Radio 1 event in Swindon 2 years ago and saw Lily perform (rather badly) live, she said something to the effect that the establishment had banned her from performing and promoting 'f**K you' and could we all join her in singing the song at the establishment as she was going to perform it anyway, I can only presume that the Beeb cut the live broadcast at that point lol. It was actually one of the two best songs she did that night, the other highlight was the Britney cover (title escapes me at the mo) which I definitely would've bought as a single if it had been one, but I do realise that it would've been a lower seller due to Britney's version already being popular.

One album I'm very familiar with though is Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance and I've always thought that despite it's obviously quite depressing subject matter that 'Cancer' would've made a very sublime single as it's so poignant.

 

Not sure about it being a single for obvious reasons, but Cancer really deserves to be a more widely known song. I agree with you about Disenchanted as well. That might be my favorite song on the album next to Famous Last Words.

Dangerous Game by Kylie Minogue. One of her best songs ever!!

Alexandra Burke - Perfect (The original version though now the one they put on the actual album).

Lady GaGa - Dance In The Dark

Pixie Lott - Here We Go Again

Rihanna - Breakin' Dishes, Cry

Sugababes - Thank You For The Heartbreak

The Saturdays Here Standing, One Shot.

Westlife - I Cry, Heal, Turn Around, Catch My Breathe, How To Break A Heart, Shadows, Where We Are, Beautiful Tonight, I Will Reach You, No One's Gonna Sleep Tonight.

Wonderland - In Your Arms, Get Your Boots On (there's still time though).

Diana Vickers - Chasing You

 

Cheryl Cole - Stand Up

 

Ellie Goulding - This Love,Your Biggest Mistake

 

 

Edited June 24, 201114 yr by starryeyed

List compiled from my ipod:

 

Aaliyah - Miss You (tribute video to boot - but for some reason relegated to a b-side)

Adele - Don't You Remember (I hold out hope!)

Alexandra Burke - Goodnight, Good Morning

Amy Studt - Ladder In My Tights (Widely regarded as what should have been released instead of the Sheryl Crow cover)

Amy Studt - Paper Made Man (wouldnt have made much difference - whole amazing album went unnoticed anyway!)

Anastacia - Everything Burns (best of the new songs on her greatest hits)

Appleton - Hallelujah (solid album, could have been a 4th single)

B*Witched - If It Dont Fit

Beyonce - Ring The Alarm (even has a video!)

Beyonce - Get Me Bodied (Also with a video that reunited Destiny's Child + Solange)

Beyonce - Hello & Radio (excellent tracks)

Big Brovaz - Gotta Get (Good track from first album)

Celine Dion - Power of A Dream (olympic track that should have been made a single)

Christina Aguilera - The Right Man

Clare Maguire - Freedom & Bullet (both amazing tracks from such an underrated artist)

Corrs - All The Love In The World (simply beautiful)

Damien Rice - Woman Like A Man, Amie, Delicate, Eskimo, Accidental Babies (Basically the entire first album plus a cut from the second)

Daniel Bedingfield - Honest Questions

David Sneddon - Without You (Gorgeous track)

Delta Goodrem - Believe Again (not released in uk - such a shame)

Des'ree - Kissing You (why was this never released from Romeo & Juliet - why why why?)

Destiny's Child - Cater 2 U, Stand Up For Love (both with videos, both could have been their last single)

Destiny's Child - Stay, Temptation (awesome tracks from writings on the wall album)

Destiny's Child - Through With Love (used to promote the greatest hits which is strange cos never considered!)

Diana Vickers - N.u.m.b and You'll Never Get To Heaven

Dido - Grafton Street

Evanescence - Hello (although does sound very similar to My Immortal)

Ewan McGregor - El Tango De Roxanne

A Fine Frenzy - Near To You

Girls Aloud - Miss You Bow Wow, Girl Overboard

H & Claire - Nothing At All, Let Me Carry You

Jamelia - Ain't A Love (from her last album which flopped so had no chance - is a good album though)

Jem - Come On Closer

Jordin Sparks - This Is My Now (never released in the uk)

Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/LoveSound

Kate Nash - Birds, Mariella, Nicest Thing

Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster, Anytime

Kelly Osbourne - Red Light (release never materialised - from a very good album)

Lady GaGa - Eh Eh (played when I was in Crete all the time)

Leona Lewis - Take A Bow, I Will Be (both could have been huuuuuge)

Liberty X - Shotgun (could have saved their 3rd album)

Lily Allen - f*** You, Chinese, I Could Say (wrong songs released from the album, and FU is the number one that never was - at least Belguim have some sense)

Lisa Hannigan - Teeth

Madonna - Forbidden Love

Magic Numbers - Mornings Eleven

Maria Lawson - Old School Lovin (I remember Heat magazine stated this was best track on the album)

Mariah Carey - Cant Take That Away

Melanie C - Closer, Feel The Sun

Michelle McManus - Say It Isn't So, Cast The First Stone

Michelle Williams - The Greatest (the most gorgeous gospel track you will ever hear)

Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine, I'm A Bomb, If You're Gonna, Wild Horses

Nelly Furtado - Childhood Dreams, Explode, Hey Man, Well Well, Suenos, Afraid

Paloma Faith - Stargazer, Play On

Pink - Dear Mr President

Pussycat Dolls - Painted Windows (I believe this was not released because Melody sang lead.....)

Regina Spektor - Somedays

Rihanna - A Million Miles Away, Breakin' Dishes, Good Girl Gone Bad, Cry, Love The Way You Lie (Part 2)

Ruslana - Dance With The Wolves

Samantha Mumba - Never Meant To Be

Sarah Mclachlan - Answer, Hold On, Fear, Don't Let Go (with Bryan Adams)

Saturdays (LOTS!) - Chasing Lights, Set Me Off, Lies, Fall, Vunerable, Here Standing, Died In Your Eyes, Wordshaker, Deeper

Siobhan Donaghy - Sometimes, Make It Right, Medevac, Don't Take Me Back (last two are just special)

The Smiths - Please Please Let Me Get What I Want (just add an extra verse and bridge)

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Move This Mountain

Steps - Stop Me From Loving You, Since You Took Your Love Away

Sugababes - Virgin Sexy, More Than A Million Miles, Wait For You, She's A Mess, Whatever Makes You Happy, Conversations Over, Sometimes (so many poor single choices)

Tatu - Show Me Love

Tommy Reilly - Who's Gonna Wait

VV Brown - I Love You, Travelling Like The Light (the latter has been used on an advert)

Vanessa Carlton - Wanted, Who's To Say (the latter she dedicates to the gays lol!)

Veronicas - Take Me On The Floor, Revenge Is Sweeter, Goodbye To You

Will Young - Love Is A Matter of Distance, Cruel To Be Kind, From Now On, Lovestruck, Aint Such A Bad Place to Be, Happiness, Save Yourself