March 26, 201411 yr Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch I thought Vanessa's "Ordinary Day" would at least make top 40. And Michelle's "All You Wanted" and "Goodbye To You" definitely deserved to do better than "Everywhere".
March 27, 201411 yr Oldies: Jennifer Paige Marcella Detroit Lisa Loeb Tina Arena Meredith Brooks Tony Rich Project More recent: The 411 Mini Viva Agnes Alexis Jordan Esmee Denters Aggro Santos EDIT: The Veronicas, Wynter Gordon (I thought "Dirty Talk" would be huge) Foster The People Edited March 27, 201411 yr by Jack!
March 27, 201411 yr Surely Jennifer Paige had "one hit wonder" written all over her? Lisa Loeb kind of did too, as her hit was from a film and featured a backing group she didn't normally work with. One of my favourite useless pop facts: both Jennifer Paige and Drugstore had their only Top 40 hits in 1998, and then followed them up with different songs called 'Sober' that both peaked at 68.
March 27, 201411 yr Little Boots - Poor cow. Thank god for Remedy! Couldn't agree more, the hype surrounding her pre-sound of was HUGE. Then she waited about a century to release the lead single, which (imo) undeservedly underperformed - I still adore 'New In Town'. Then it seemed like she could actually carve some sort of career, 'Remedy' actually becoming a hit of sorts. :D Then 'Earthquake' flopped (HOW?!), and since then she's spent approximately 1 hour in the iTunes Top 100 with 'Shake'... Such a shame, the first album was brilliant and I thought she had real potential.
March 27, 201411 yr Amerie's also a good example of this. She may have had two top ten hits, but she seems like someone who could have been much bigger with the material she released. I remember Amerie emerged at about the same time as Rihanna in 2005, and there were a lot of people who genuinely thought Amerie would go on to become the bigger of the two :lol:
March 28, 201411 yr The Veronicas They deserve so much. :cry: It's their own fault though, they really should have released something late 2010 at the very latest. Now we're in 2014 and they still haven't released anything. :rolleyes: I remember Amerie emerged at about the same time as Rihanna in 2005, and there were a lot of people who genuinely thought Amerie would go on to become the bigger of the two :lol: I remember thinking that Rihanna would be the next Christina Milian at the very best, I doubt anybody could have predicted back then what would become of her.
March 28, 201411 yr They deserve so much. :cry: It's their own fault though, they really should have released something late 2010 at the very latest. Now we're in 2014 and they still haven't released anything. :rolleyes: Wasn't 2012's Lolita released in the UK? Surely Jennifer Paige had "one hit wonder" written all over her? Lisa Loeb kind of did too, as her hit was from a film and featured a backing group she didn't normally work with. One of my favourite useless pop facts: both Jennifer Paige and Drugstore had their only Top 40 hits in 1998, and then followed them up with different songs called 'Sober' that both peaked at 68. In my country (Portugal), Jennifer Paige is kind of a two-hit wonder. was played a lot on the radio. Edited March 28, 201411 yr by N-S
March 28, 201411 yr Wasn't 2012's Lolita released in the UK? Nope, it pretty much bombed in their homeland of Australia and we've heard nothing since, that song won't be on the album either (if it gets released).
March 28, 201411 yr Posting in another part of Buzzjack, I mentioned Zero 7. Now, I don't know about the "hype" aspect regards this topic, but here's an Act that I thought would have had, (at the very least) a clutch of top 10 hit singles to their name.
March 28, 201411 yr I would have expected a lead single from album number 2 to go top 10 as was traditional back in the 00s.
March 28, 201411 yr Zero 7 were always very obviously marketed as an album act though. With hindsight it does look odd how small a hit 'Destiny' was but either way I didn't expect them to have a lot more in chart terms.
March 28, 201411 yr Has Mika been mentioned? He was a bit similar to Duffy - a huge first album, then a poor first-single-from-second-album.
March 28, 201411 yr Has Mika been mentioned? He was a bit similar to Duffy - a huge first album, then a poor first-single-from-second-album. Though that single still went top 5. He hasn't had any other big hits afterwards (in the UK anyway, he's still popular in significant parts of Europe).
March 28, 201411 yr Iyaz With 'Replay' reaching number 1 and Solo doing well I expected much more from him Esmee Denters Did her first solo songs not do alright? And she was on Until You Were Gone
March 28, 201411 yr Has anyone mentioned Daisy Dares You yet? I remember BuzzJack creaming its pants over her/her songs in 2009 and then "Number One Enemy" crashing in at #13 in early 2010 and then disappearing faster than Abdul Farek after yet another crap chart prediction (see: Rooney 'one direction definitely #1' chart predictions INC)
March 28, 201411 yr Has anyone mentioned Daisy Dares You yet? I remember BuzzJack creaming its pants over her/her songs in 2009 and then "Number One Enemy" crashing in at #13 in early 2010 and then disappearing faster than Abdul Farek after yet another crap chart prediction (see: Rooney 'one direction definitely #1' chart predictions INC) OMG Daisy Dares You!! :lol: Yes, she literally disappeared off the face of the earth after that song, second single Rosie never happened and the album was never released! The week after NOE was released, she did a gig at my school's library as part of this 'get loud in libraries' thing, I'm pretty sure I still have her autograph lying around somewhere from it, I remember at the time I was thinking about selling it on eBay because I thought she'd be huge. :lol: Edited March 28, 201411 yr by Jade
March 28, 201411 yr AHEM, see page 1. But yes, I definitely thought Number 1 Enemy would be a huge number 1 (lol) and she'd be the breakout star of 2010; Kinda glad she wasn't though as the song was really shit. Edited March 28, 201411 yr by Chez Wombat
March 28, 201411 yr ^That's the trouble when the thread gets to Page 5 and the search button is shockingly poor. Apparently according to Wikipedia she is now in a band called Pink Lizards. She seems like the kind of person who might appear in a Never Mind The Buzzcocks line-up.
March 29, 201411 yr Niki & The Dove - :( ... Thought DJ Ease My Mind would be massive but didn't even chart did it?! Diana Vickers - thought she would have more success after her number one album and single Amelia Lily - couldn't wait for her album which never came... Thought Party Over deserved much better than Number 40
March 29, 201411 yr Did people really think Amelia Lily and Diana Vickers would be huge? Even before their 2nd singles flopped I never expected them to be the new Alexandra Burke/Leona Lewis.
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