March 23, 201411 yr Despite now being a loon, I didn't think Anastacia would last past I'm Outta Love initially.
March 24, 201411 yr As I posted in the wrong place before: Also, Enrique Iglesias. When the follow-up to 'Bailamos' missed the Top 40 (in the same week as Thunderbugs and Lou Bega's second singles in fact), I thought that was the last we'd hear of him.
March 25, 201411 yr For me, 'Chasing Pavements' by Adele was very much a ho-hum song, and the other singles from her debut album did little (at the time, anyway)...
March 25, 201411 yr Nobody indeed predicted that Adele could become so huge. Which reminds me of Duffy..
March 25, 201411 yr Nobody indeed predicted that Adele could become so huge. Which reminds me of Duffy.. Could never figure out what went wrong there. :(
March 25, 201411 yr Probably a dire second album. This. Her first album was one of the best I ever bought, but her second was one of the worst. Easily the biggest decline in quality I've ever seen, I only liked Endlessly and perhaps My Boy. Whale Whale Wahle was a terminally bad lead single :lol:
March 25, 201411 yr That Diet Coke advert didn't help things either. Even so as said it's still pretty astonishing how far she fell - one of the biggest stars of 2008 to completely missing the top 40 with WWW.
March 25, 201411 yr The problem with Duffy was her singing on Well Well Well, it may still be a bad song if sung in a normal voice but it is quite radio friendly. I just think that her singing is so bad on it that it put radios off from playing it even if it was from someone who had an extremely successful previous era. I remember only finding out about it, and her comeback, about a week before it was released which is surprising as there should have been more hype for someone who'd had that success. -x- I think we all thought that Aloe Blacc would be a one-hit wonder but he's on his way to a third massive hit. Still, I think it'll just be a single-by-single basis rather than him doing consistently well. Around the time that Katy On a Mission was released, I thought she would be a one hit wonder as she seemed to be an anonymous dance artist to the public and it seemed like a one-off dance release, especially with the use of her name in the title.
March 25, 201411 yr I think if Duffy released her 2nd album in 2009 she would have been more successful. For me: The Vamps Avicii OneRepublic Imagine Dragons Jason Derulo Drake I'm confused about most of these tbh. I could maybe understand The Vamps but the rest of them I think were obviously going to have lots of hits. Edited March 25, 201411 yr by Eric_Blob
March 25, 201411 yr I wasn't sure Jason Derulo would have a big hit again after 'Whatcha Say', I've got to be honest.
March 25, 201411 yr I wasn't sure Jason Derulo would have a big hit again after 'Whatcha Say', I've got to be honest. I was, because late 2009 when Whatcha Say was out an early version of Ridin' Solo (with the Bittersweet Symphony sample still in) leaked onto the Internet, and it quickly became quite popular in my college, so I saw it as another likely chart hit. I honestly think that's why the song got cherry-picked so much on the album release week, since it already got quite famous from it leaking the previous year. Edited March 25, 201411 yr by Eric_Blob
March 25, 201411 yr I'm not sure about Imagine Dragons - "It's Time" was a bigger US hit than "Radioactive" at the time the latter blew up over here, I actually thought IT would be even bigger and "Radioactive" would drop away after the album came out.
March 25, 201411 yr ^ Yeah, Imagine Dragons, and also people like Lorde and Macklemore had other songs which were clear future hits out at the time they got their breakthrough hits, so I never thought they'd be one-hit wonders.
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