Since when has a #2 hit needed to be an enduring classic? All reaching #2 means is it was the second best-selling single in that particular week.

 

I guess it's a classic case of how well known these songs are. Despite peaking high, most of them (particularly in the early 00s) only got there thanks to the record company pushing all the promotion into one week and moving on 7 days later. Some people might like them but the average music lover I'm sure would struggle to recall tracks like 'You' by S Club 7, and 'I Hope You Dance' by Ronan Keating. Songs I reckon would've struggled to even go top 10 in the download age.

Non Number Two's thread: W.....W....Where i am?, what happened?

 

Doctor: You have been in a coma for 6 and a half months

 

 

Non Number Two's thread: :o

 

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Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

Edited September 11, 201311 yr by Mr Escobar

Get thee to hell. It's a well known classic. :lol:

Edited September 11, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

....I guess since this thread was started 'Ding Dong the witch is dead' has blitzed all previous contenders statistically??

Oh, I thought this was gonna be a thread saying non-no.2s as in they should have been no.1s and are remembered as no.1s! Woulda said Spice Girls.

 

But for non. no.2s? No idea, maybe Totally Addicted to Base.

'Addicted To Bass' is still very remembered today...

If you remember 'Pass Out' then you remember this :P Much as I do love 'Frisky' it's more or less exactly the same song give or take a couple of lines about risking it for a chocolate biscuit.

 

Written In the Stars was originally intended to be the 2nd single (and was expected to be Tinie's breakthrough single), but with the success of Pass Out they felt the public wanted more of it. The bad thing with having two songs so similar is that one can end up completely overshadowed by the other.

 

'Addicted To Bass' is still very remembered today...

 

I agree, but this thread is just on people's opinions I guess. To some people a song seems forgotten, to others they hear that same song all the time. I don't think Addicted to Bass is forgotten in the slightest, but maybe he simply hasn't heard it in ages, so it's forgotten to him.

Edited September 11, 201311 yr by Eric_Blob

Some I thought of:

 

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead - Wizard Of Oz

Flower - Sweet Female Attitude

Any Dream Will Do - Lee Meade

U Know What's Up - Donnel Jones feat. Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes

The Launch - DJ Jean

Lazy - Xpress2 feat. David Byrne

Fantasy - Appleton

Sacred Trust / After You're Gone - One True Voice

I Can't Break Down - Sinead Quinn

Flip Reverse - Blazin' Squad

She Believes In Me - Ronan Keating

I Hope You Dance - Ronan Keating

Come On England - 4+4+2

When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Westlife & Diana Ross

Control Myself - LL Cool J feat. Jenifer Lopez

21st Century Christmas / Move It - Cliff Richard

Proper Education - Eric Prydz vs. Floyd

Heartbroken - T2 feat. Jodie Aysha

What's It Gonna Be - H "Two" O feat. Platnum

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

One For The Radio - McFly

Supernova - Mr. Hudson feat. Kanye West

Get Sexy - Sugababes

Riverside (Let's Go) - Sidney Samson

 

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

There's so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin.

Shut Up And Dance's Raving I'm Raving is the ultimate non-#2. It went into the chart at #2 and fell down to #15 the week afterwards! :o

 

This was actually #1 in the midweeks, it sold almost 50,000 copies in only a few days. I think KISS 100 got in trouble for revealing the midweeks which at the time were even more strictly guarded than now... then of course Marc Cohn got a mood on and the track stopped being pressed. When they performed it on TOTP on the Thursday they had to completely change the song structure to remove the "Walking In Memphis" melody.

Edited September 11, 201311 yr by Doctor Blind

When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Westlife & Diana Ross

 

Oh my god that sounds awful :lol:

 

Jeff Buckley is perhaps one of the most FAMOUS songs that peaked at no.2.

 

Appleton's Fantasy was a great track but yeah it's probably forgotten and their most remembered is their no.5 hit actually, Dinet Worry.

 

I haven't heard Addicted to Base in years.

50 Cent feat. Eminem & Adam Levine My Life

 

Where's 50 Cent gone again? :lol:

That Nicki Minaj thread reminds me of her massive flop Starships. I mean it only sold 800k. Such a flop.

So floppy that everyone else forgot it in this thread!

Booty Luv - Boogie 2 nite

You Got the Dirtee Love - Florence Welch/Dizzee Rascal (Have no idea how this version goes!)

Alyssa Reid - Alone Again

 

Are we basing these on songs which were actually massive at the time but considered forgotten (even if some of the suggestions are ludicrous), or songs which peaked there and dropped like a brick (like how people define 'non #1s').

Alyssa Reid - Alone Again

 

I know this is very loony of me but that's certainly not a non-#2, it spent 10 weeks top 40 (same as What About Us) and has sold 300k+, I think that's a success for an unknown (one-hit wonder :() like Alyssa!

 

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But how many people actually remember Alone Again? I don't hear it anywhere these days.

But how many people actually remember Alone Again? I don't hear it anywhere these days.

 

It might be a bit forgotten (I'm sure many people would know Alyssa's version if you sang it to them) but 300k+ sales doesn't make it a non-#2, at all. You'd think of a non-#1 as one with a short chart run, doesn't sell more than say 300k (or not much more than it). This is surely the same premise?

I rarely listen to the radio but I've actually heard Alyysa's version late at night occasionally on some stations. I don't think it's anywhere near as forgotten as people would like it to be. Agree with Jade's other ones though (unfortunately for Flozee).