The Corrs - Dreams was a #6 hit from Talk On Corners as the fourth single following Only When I Sleep (#58), I Never Loved You Anyway (#43) and the original release of What Can I Do (#53). This was followed by the re-released What Can I Do going to #3. Dreams was part of a one additional song repackage though as far as I can recall so perhaps the re-released What Can I Do would serve as a better example.

Certainly wasn't the biggest hit.

 

Linkin Park's singles off Hybrid Theory (One Step Closer, Crawling, Papercut, In The End) all improved the chart peak of the last. Something like #24, #16, #14, #8.

 

Because the singles kept getting better. :cheer: (One Step Closer < Crawling < Papercut < In The End)

The album was a huge success anyway if I remember well. Must be one of the most successful alternative albums of all time.

 

Coldbray after Bubre :lol: Epic nickname :rofl:

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R. Kelly - R.

 

16 - Half On A Baby [sep. 1998]

17 - Home Alone [Nov. 1998]

03 - I'm Your Angel (w/Celine Dion) [Nov. 1998]

20 - Did You Ever Think [Jul. 1999]

02 - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time [Oct. 1999]

20 - Only The Loot Can Make Me Happy/When A Woman's Fed Up/I Can't Sleep Baby (If I) [Apr. 2000]

 

(Although some would argue I Believe I Can Fly was a single on this album but it was on the Space Jam soundtrack and later tacked on the end here :P)

 

Moby - Play

 

33 - Honey [Aug. 1998]

33 - Run On [Apr. 1999]

38 - Bodyrock [Jul. 1999]

16 - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? [Oct. 1999]

11 - Natural Blues [Mar. 2000]

05 - Porcelain [Jun. 2000]

17 - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad (Re-release) [Oct. 2000]

 

Sad that these kind of things are pretty much impossible nowadays :(

Pet Shop Boys' Heart got to #1 and I think that was the fourth single from Actually.

Surely there's a definitive list of these somewhere? Like I'm sure there would be somewhere which lists all the #1s that were 4th or higher singles. It would save everybody else the problem of racking their brains :lol:

 

Someone mentioned Promises by Nero earlier, although I'm not sure if that as the 3rd or 4th single.

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Someone mentioned Promises by Nero earlier, although I'm not sure if that as the 3rd or 4th single.

 

Fourth - 'Innocence' was the first single but it didn't do awfully well.

 

'Mama Do The Hump' is the fifth single from Rizzle Kicks' album (the first 2 flopped) and looks like possibly being the highest peaking.

Did all those RKs singles get released by their current record label though?

Did all those RKs singles get released by their current record label though?

 

Not sure about the first but the other four yes.

Alot of the time new acts release and re-release singles over and over again on smaller labels then a bigger label brings them into the mainstream and they release them again.....Was down with the trumpets not when they were on a small label and ferne cotton loved them so much she made it her record of the week and it climbed to no8 in the charts....i always thought that was why the 2nd single wasnt an OA/OS release like the first?

I was just thinking - perhaps we should distinguish between pre & post album singles, too.

 

Obviously it'll be easier for the 4th single to chart well, if the the previous one were released before the album, as the 4th won't have been cherry-picked to death beforehand...

Cherry picking has been a factor for a few years only. Not a long span in chart history.

 

Rihanna's Take a Bow... even though it was a re-release was 5th single

The first 5 singles off Westlife's debut album all went #1, the last being Fool Again. The fourth single I Have A Dream was the highest selling of the singles from the album.

 

So the song "I Have A Dream" has been featured on this list by two separate artists!

 

I'll Stand By You by Girls Aloud. It was the 4th release from What Will the Neighbours Say?, but the first single Jump was included on both the re-release of Sound of the Underground and WWTNS?, so it's a bit debatable

And 'Jump' was as big as, if not bigger than 'I'll Stand by You', despite the peak!

Geri Halliwell's 'Bag It Up' reached #1 - was the 4th single from 'Schizophonic'.

 

Melanie C's #1 'I Turn To You' was the fourth release from 'Northern Star' - although it was remixed.

 

All Saint's 'Bootie Call', fourth release, #1.

 

None of these were the biggest from their respective albums, but nevertheless they're 4th single #1s.

'Make You Feel My Love' was the highest selling single from '19' (although not the highest peaking). The bulk of its sales were also over 2 years after the release of the album :P

Viva Forever from Spice world. (4th Single)

 

So Jessie J will make history with sixth single from her album being #1 this week? (I'm 99% sure it'll be)

Lady Gaga's technically already done it, no? Telephone was single #6.