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On playing George Michael's first three Solo UK Studio Albums this morning I noticed a high percentage of (UK) Singles on the Albums (more than 50% overall),

 

Faith 6 out of 11 tracks

Listen Without Prejudice 5 out of 10 tracks

Older 6 out of 11 tracks (only including 1 track for Double A Single "You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing '97" but arguably 7 out of 11 tracks released as Singles).

 

So 17 out of 32 overall (all Top 50 charted Singles).

 

Are there any other Artists out there that have released more than 50% Singles from their first 3 Studio Albums?

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If we go with the standard 12 track version of Sigma's 'Life', they released 7 singles (8 if you want to include Ella Eyre's Good Times)!
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If we go with the standard 12 track version of Sigma's 'Life', they released 7 singles (8 if you want to include Ella Eyre's Good Times)!

Not bad but that is just from their Debut Album I was really looking for an Artist that had sustained more than 50% singles over first 3 Albums.

Calvin Harris had a fair few in the last album era although he cheated a bit with the pre album releases.

 

Michael Jackson released a fair few from Thriller from No 1982 - 1984 -

 

The Girl Is Mine

Billie Jean

Beat It

Wanna Be Startin Something

Happy

Say Say Say (Not sure if this was a Paul McCartney or Michael Jackson song)

Thriller

P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)

Farewell My Summer Love

Girl Your So Together

 

EDIT - I'm pretty sure this may be beyond his first 3 debuts but I'm not sure?

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Calvin Harris - 18 Months had the following as singles

 

Bounce

Feel So Close

We Found Love

We'll Be Coming Back

I Need Your Love

Drinking From the Bottle

Sweet Nothing

Let's Go

Thinking About You

 

and those were just the official singles! Iron and Awooga were also released as promo singles before the album.

 

That's 11 out of 15 tracks. Just 4 were kept as album tracks, and 3 of those were interludes :lol:

I've changed the title of the topic if that's ok to make it less specific ^_^ to allow for more discussion.
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Shania Twain if you ignore her debut which most do anyway :kink:

Yes an impressive release schedule from third Album ("Come On Over") but even 2nd Album failed to yield a Single that made the Top 75 in UK (not sure the eight Singles released from the Album were all released in UK).

It would have been a bit of a stretch to release 8 Singles from an Album none of which were a Hit in the UK.

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I've changed the title of the topic if that's ok to make it less specific ^_^ to allow for more discussion.

Agreed but It would be good to see whether George Michael wins out over the 3 Albums so if anyone has any ideas on that it would be appreciated.

 

Calvin Harris had a fair few in the last album era although he cheated a bit with the pre album releases.

 

Michael Jackson released a fair few from Thriller from No 1982 - 1984 -

 

The Girl Is Mine

Billie Jean

Beat It

Wanna Be Startin Something

Happy

Say Say Say (Not sure if this was a Paul McCartney or Michael Jackson song)

Thriller

P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)

Farewell My Summer Love

Girl Your So Together

 

EDIT - I'm pretty sure this may be beyond his first 3 debuts but I'm not sure?

 

Happy, Say Say Say, Farewell My Summer Love and Girl You're So Together weren't from albums. Well Say Say Say was from McCartney's album Pipes Of Peace. The others were on Motown.

Although 'Off The Wall' wasn't Michael Jackson's first solo album - he had released 4 as a child singer when with Motown records - it's the one that that kickstarted his mainstream chart career as an adult singer.

 

Each of the albums he released as an adult solo star in the 80s had at least 5 tracks released as singles:

 

Off The Wall: 5 out of 10 tracks released as singles

 

Thriller: 6 / 9

 

Bad: 8 /10 (9 / 11 on CD version)

 

then into the 90s:

 

Dangerous: 9 / 14

Repackaged version of 'New Eyes' by Clean Bandit saw 8 out of 15 tracks released

 

A + E

Mozart's House

Dust Clears

Rather Be

Extraordinary

Come Over

Real Love

Stronger

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Not strictly in keeping with the topic of the thread but 9 singles were released from Michael Jackson's 'Bad', out of 11 songs on it, that's 82%, which I'm pretty certain is the highest proportion of singles released from one album.

 

If we change the rules slightly to consider any three consecutive studio albums rather than just debut albums, then:

 

Thriller: 7 out of 9

Bad: 9 out of 11

Dangerous: 9 out of 14

 

That gives a staggering 25 out of 34 songs releases as singles, which is 74% and puts George Michael's figure to shame!

 

What's even more impressive is that all but one of those 25 singles made the Top 40.

 

Rihanna released eight singles from GGGB:

 

Umbrella

Shut Up and Drive

Hate That I Love You

Don't Stop The Music

Take A Bow

Disturbia

Rehab

If I Never See Your Face Again

 

And not from the album but in this era she also released Live Your Life.

 

Rated R and Loud had six and seven singles respectively also, although not all of them hit the UK top 40 like GGGB.

 

 

 

 

Madonna, if you don't include Who's That Girl as it was a soundtrack featuring other artists has over 50% of singles released from her first 4 studio albums:

 

Madonna - 5/8 released

Like A Virgin - 5/10 released

True Blue - 5/9 released

Like A Prayer - 6/11 released

 

= 55%

Edited by girlsaloudjunkie

Happy, Say Say Say, Farewell My Summer Love and Girl You're So Together weren't from albums. Well Say Say Say was from McCartney's album Pipes Of Peace. The others were on Motown.

 

When I seen this on polyhex I suspected some were non album releases!

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Madonna, if you don't include Who's That Girl as it was a soundtrack featuring other artists has over 50% of singles released from her first 4 studio albums:

 

Madonna - 5/8 released

Like A Virgin - 5/10 released

True Blue - 5/9 released

Like A Prayer - 6/11 released

 

= 55%

Thanks for that girlsaloudjunkie, I had overlooked Madonna but she did indeed have a higher percentage than George Michael over first 3 Studio Albums - surprising to see that "Everybody" and "Burning Up" didn't chart but after that it was Top 20 Singles all the way..

Janet Jackson's Control had had 7/9 tracks released as singles

 

If you exclude the interludes, Rhythm Nation 1814 had 8/12. janet. had 9/15 excluding interludes and counting a double-A side.

 

They aren't technically her first 3 albums, but like her brother, people tend to not count her pre-Control albums.

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David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat spawned 10 singles:-

 

Sweat

Where Dem Girls At?

Little Bad Girl

Without You

Titanium

Turn Me On

I Can Only Imagine

 

Post Re-issue:-

 

She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)

Just One Last Time

Play Hard

On playing George Michael's first three Solo UK Studio Albums this morning I noticed a high percentage of (UK) Singles on the Albums (more than 50% overall),

 

Faith 6 out of 11 tracks

Listen Without Prejudice 5 out of 10 tracks

Older 6 out of 11 tracks (only including 1 track for Double A Single "You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing '97" but arguably 7 out of 11 tracks released as Singles).

 

So 17 out of 32 overall (all Top 50 charted Singles).

 

Are there any other Artists out there that have released more than 50% Singles from their first 3 Studio Albums?

 

Wham were also similar -

 

Fantastic - 4/8 (Wham Rap, Young Guns, Bad Boys, Club Tropicana)

Make It Big - 4/8 (Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Everything She Wants, Freedom, Careless Whisper)

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