The Beta Band never managed any higher than no.30 - quite remarkable really.

Also I remember I so wanted this to be a massive hit at the time and yet it only managed #34 (and her only top 40). Still as great as ever.

 

 

That was a fab track! I had her album, was really good - lots and lots of hit potential. 2009 was a great year for music.

 

 

Lonestar were very unlucky to not make the list, their only top 40 hit 'Amazed' peaked at #21 but spent 17 weeks top 40, more than enough to be considered a hit single

The utterly iconic Sanna Nielsen should have really managed more than just the one low top 40 single.

V V Brown and Hurts are the obvious ones. I can't believe Wonderful Life never went top 20 :cry: (the did get a #1 eventually with Under Control, but I don't consider that a Hurts song).

 

 

Another one is Michelle Branch, who saw 4 singles go top 40 in the UK but has only peaked as high as #16, on a Santana single that is.

 

 

 

Michelle also had a top 20 single in her own right with 'Everywhere'. :P

 

She has some really good songs to her name!

Still not quite sure I get this thread - is it just everyone who didn't have a Top 20 hit?

Still not quite sure I get this thread - is it just everyone who didn't have a Top 20 hit?

 

:lol: I thought the same, However this is the band that for me is probably one of the most unfortunate - 10 Top 100 singles and 4 Top 100 albums without ever troubling the Top 40 despite getting close several times and having songs chart at 41, 42 and 43! (Maybe the thread should have been acts with the most chart hits that have failed to make the Top 40?)

 

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci -

 

Singles:

 

If My Fingers Were Zylophones #91

Amber Gamber EP #91

Patio Song #41

Diamond Dew #42

Young Girls & Happy Endings/Dark Night #49

Sweet Johnny #60

Let's Get Together (In Our Minds) #43

Spanish Dance Troupe #47

Poodle Rockin #52

Stood On Gold #65

 

Albums:

 

Barafundle #46

Gorky's #67

Spanish Dance Troupe #88

How I Long To Feel That Summer #76

I've never had a top 20 hit :(

99% of music artists fit in this category! :lol:

Still not quite sure I get this thread - is it just everyone who didn't have a Top 20 hit?

 

As I see it there seems to be three criteria for this thread:

 

One: Never making the Top 20

Two: Only releasing one single (or perhaps only being remembered for one particular single)

Three: Having some sort of fame or notoriety, or being in some way memorable.

 

The first two criteria were more or less set out by the OP, though how strictly the second criteria should apply seems to have varied between posters, and IMHO the third criterion is implied, otherwise we would indeed have just listed all acts and artists who have never made the Top 20.

Ellie Campbell springs to mind,don't want you was her main release I feel should have been a huge hit.

(Maybe the thread should have been acts with the most chart hits that have failed to make the Top 40?)

 

 

Restricting it to Top 75 (at the moment my 76-100 data is still under construction)

 

Most Top 75 hits without making the Top 20

 

16 - Fall

14 - New Model Army

13 - Cocteau Twins

 

 

(John Peel could have put together a whole show just of those three acts!)

 

11 - Black Crowes, Motley Crue

10 - Catherine Wheel, Morcheeba

9 - Brass Construction, Lush

 

 

Thought this would be a massive hit. Played on the background song on Britain's Got Talent last night:

 

 

Only peaking at #40.

 

 

 

 

Also I remember I so wanted this to be a massive hit at the time and yet it only managed #34 (and her only top 40). Still as great as ever.

 

 

Same here man! I reckon it would do decently now though.

My utter CHILDHOOD that was Bratz making the top 40 for the first and only time ten years ago. :cry:

 

'So Good' (#23) under 'Bratz Rock Angelz'. [2005]

 

 

Also, Aly & AJ! They are now known as 78Violet (but tbh, who on earth remembers anything they've done under this name?).

 

'Potential Break-Up Song' (#22) [2007]

 

Anyone remember this flop?

 

Omg Summer Matthews <3 I genuinely still have the CD single of that :o

: Fastball - The Way - reached No.21 in October 1998 - Its blooming brilliant.

Omg Summer Matthews <3 I genuinely still have the CD single of that :o

 

Ha, so do I! Loved it too... she should have been more successful than she was.

 

 

 

 

I've done some research for this thread. I figured that the most successful acts/artists to miss the top 20 would arguably be those whose singles career peaked at 21, so I have compiled an exhaustive list of those who have done that from the first top 30 of the 50s through to the end of 2010, as I don't have the data in a practical format beyond 2010. I'd like to do a little countdown of this, but don't know whether to only do those that had one charting single (as per the OPs criteria) or else also include those that had two or more (in some cases many) singles in the sub 20 regions of the charts?

 

Either way this would be our first act whose singles career peaked at 21, Compagnons De La Chanson (or Mushrooms Of The Song) whose hit The Three Bells reached 21 in October 1959, and was there only single.