On to w/e 14/02/1963 and to David Thorne - The Alley Cat Song, David's only charting single.

 

And in w/e 7/10/1965 The Sorrows only charting single, Take A Heart, peaked at 21.

 

Ok I decided to include all acts that peaked at 21, regardless of how many charting singles they had below 20, so our next artist is Rita Pavone. Her first single, Heart peaked at 27 in w/e 26th January 1967. In the same week her only other charting single, You Only You, entered at 29, and peaked the following week at 21.

 

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Grapefruit are next. Their first single, Dear Delilah, peaked at 21 in w/e 20th March 1968. A follow up single, C'mon Marianne, peaked at 31.

 

And now for probably the most famous and iconic entry so far on our list. The Nice were a prog rock outfit whose only single, America, peaked at 21 in w/e 18/09/1968.

 

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

Haha, I think I do too you know!

: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

Great example

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]

 

 

What is air? I need it. :lol:

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

 

 

Only peaking at #40.

 

Brilliant example - I too thought this would be big, but it had the misfortune to be released in two extremely underwhelming, crappy summers (2007 and 2008), just peaking at #40 in the 2008 re-release.

 

The video's the 2007 original, the re-release used a subtle remix by Mirwais, which either improves or destroys the song depending on your view:

 

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Morcheeba

Tape Loop #42

Trigger Hippie #40

The Music That We Hear #47

Shoulder Holster #53

Blindfold #56

Let Me See #46

Part of the Process #38

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day #34

World Looking In #48

Otherwise #64

 

 

Part of the Process, Rome...and World Looking In have been used in numerous adverts I believe.

 

Their last two albums failed to make the top 75, but they had four consecutive top 20 albums.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Annie in this thread...

 

 

'Chewing Gum', #24 in September 2004 and still a certified classic of that era of spiky sounding electropop from 10 years ago. 'Heartbeat' it's follow up only made it as far as #50 and then of course, when she was signed to Island in 2008 and working with Xenomania and Alex Kapranos on her second album, 'I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me' peaked at #54.

 

I still say had they come out with 'My Love is Better' first (her famed 'collaboration' with Girls Aloud that Fascination then made them winch the girls' vocals off lest it be mistaken for one of their own and thus destroy their run of consecutive top 10 hits at that point) it'd have been as big for Annie as 'American Boy' was for Estelle that year.

 

As far as I'm aware, the record for longest charting hit without ever making the top 40 is still the theme tune from 'Postman Pat' by Ken Barrie. Which when you consider it's immense popularity in the 80's - as say, with Bob the Builder in the 00's - it's still a puzzler as to why that didn't become a top 10 at least.

Morcheeba

Tape Loop #42

Trigger Hippie #40

The Music That We Hear #47

Shoulder Holster #53

Blindfold #56

Let Me See #46

Part of the Process #38

Rome Wasn't Built in a Day #34

World Looking In #48

Otherwise #64

Part of the Process, Rome...and World Looking In have been used in numerous adverts I believe.

 

Their last two albums failed to make the top 75, but they had four consecutive top 20 albums.

 

Such a great band but at least they had album success I guess

 

As far as I'm aware, the record for longest charting hit without ever making the top 40 is still the theme tune from 'Postman Pat' by Ken Barrie. Which when you consider it's immense popularity in the 80's - as say, with Bob the Builder in the 00's - it's still a puzzler as to why that didn't become a top 10 at least.

 

I wonder how long that will be take to be beaten - I think with streaming etc, it will probably happen sooner rather than later.

 

Two other bizarre chart runs for the same song by 2 different artists that missed the Top 40 (Although Eva of course went on to have a #1 with Katie Melua)

 

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow:

 

68-97-Out-74-Out-91-Out-91-Out-46-67-98-Out-93-88-98-Out-81-Out-85-Out-97-Out-80-69-82-Out-80-44-59-81-89 (22 Weeks)

 

Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over The Rainbow:

 

88-91-Out-85-94-78-61-84-93-45-42-48-56-63-74-80-74-88-Out-81-87-98-97-73-82 (23 Weeks)

 

 

Was going to mention Lisa Roxanne bur her (only) single was a #18. Still, she was gone two weeks later.

Lisa Roxanne No Flow 18 {18}-42->2

 

 

 

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.

 

I was so gutted that this flopped. Was my favourite single released that year, I was obsessed with it. Genuinely thought it would be huge as I had seen it loads on TV music channels at the time.

PJ Harvey seems to be the queen of missing the Top 20 - She's had 16 Top 75 singles of which 8 have made the Top 40 for 1 week each, Her highest charting one is #25.

Continuin where I left off yesterday the next act whose career peaked at 21 was Fairport Convention, which surprised me as I knew from my dad's LP collection that they released several albums, but their only charting single, Si Tu Dois Partir, peaked at 21 in weeks ending 23rd and 30th August 1969.

 

Prelude are next with their first charting single, After The Goldrush, which was a Neil Young song originally. Prelude went on to have three more singles, Platinum Blonde which reached 45 in 1980, a reissue of After The Goldrush which peaked at 28 in 1982, and Only The Lonely which only got to 55 in 1982. After the Goldrush peaked at 21 in w/e 09/03/1974.

 

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I dunno it's worse than the buses. You wait 4.5 years from Fairport Convention to another acts career peaking at 21, and then two acts come along in consecutive weeks. This time it's 8 times winners of Opportunity Knocks, Candlewick Green, with their version of the Jigsaw song Who Do You Think You Are, in w/e 16/03/1974