Fellow Thom! This has shades of Kobbar!!!!

I'm just looking from the view that Eminem can make their song popular again, that's a nice tribute I think. While he would be making money out of it, so would The Cranberries.

Cranberries Update (After BBC News featured clips of Linger & Zombie):

 

14 & 41. Linger

22 & 32. Zombie

23 & 61. Dreams

 

 

463. Tom Grennan - Sober

10 & 31. Linger

15 & 27. Zombie

18 & 52. Dreams

115 & 132. Ode to My Family

Linger nearly #2 combined aand Zombie #5 combined

Any Christmas songs getting a boost from all this snow and ice :lol:

Any Christmas songs getting a boost from all this snow and ice :lol:

Really? Sunshine where I am! :o

3. Linger - The Cranberries

6. Zombie - The Cranberries

7. Dreams - The Cranberries

15. Zombie - The Cranberries

25. Linger - The Cranberries

44. Dreams - The Cranberries

71. Ode to My Family - The Cranberries

97. Ode to My Family - The Cranberries

 

I just looked it up and found that they never had a top 10 hit (I knew 'Zombie' never made it but I thought they might have done so with one of their other songs, they do have two #13s and two #14s though). Looks like they're pretty much guaranteed to get 2 or 3 entries in the sales top 10 this week. Hope they can get at least one song into the official top 40.

 

(huge update for all of those songs btw, 'Linger' is not too far off being #1 combined now).

210. Editors - Magazine

 

Cranberries Update

 

2+23. Linger

5+13. Zombie

6+41. Dreams

69+99. Ode To My Family

Pleased Linger is highest, I thought Zombie had more or less overtaken it as their 'signature song' in the years since release.

 

They are one of those bands with three songs that are almost as well-known as each other though, as iTunes is showing right now.

 

All three are classics, Linger is beautiful and Dreams is so good, the Dario G cover Dream To Me is also one of my favourite trance songs.

I don't understand how Zombie only peaked at #14 when it was a massive #1/top 3 single all over Europe and Australia/New Zealand - I presume the subject matter made airplay/publicity a bit more challenging in this country. All three of those Cranberries songs deserve higher peaks.

 

now combined

1 River 1.00

2 Linger 0.90

3 Zombie 0.86

 

nice to see all this love for the Cranberries, always thought back then they were equally loved and hated, thats why Zombie wasn't bigger, I love it myself but it also ended up in a lot of worst song of the year/decade lists

+ they were also more album than single sellers

I had no idea that 'Linger' was ever their 'signature song' tbh, I've always known it as 'that other hit they had' and thought 'Zombie' was the main song they were known for.

for instance in the US, Linger is their only big hit, went to #8

but I think Zombie was never released as single in the US, a common strategy in the mid-90s by labels to sell more albums, many classics like Don't Speak they never charted

'Dreams' is their best song and the one I knew the most growing up, 'Linger' closely followed behind. I wasn't aware of 'Zombie' until I was a little older.

I had no idea that 'Linger' was ever their 'signature song' tbh, I've always known it as 'that other hit they had' and thought 'Zombie' was the main song they were known for.

 

You’re not alone - Zombie was the go to track for me and what I thought was their signature song

Linger was their breakthru hit in both UK and US, Dreams was the follow-up and by comparison did less chart-wise but it was also a post-album single

I'd say Zombie is their most iconic song and the song everyone knows and the song that made them huge everywhere in the world

but Zombie also had a lot of haters, as I was saying in another thread

Agreed about 'Zombie' being their signature hit. Perhaps it's just my personal experience, but I hear 'Zombie' all the time, whereas I don't think I've ever knowingly heard 'Linger'.

 

This Wolf Alice song always reminded me of Dreams on the instrumental .

I can understand why people are describing 'Zombie' as the iconic hit from The Cranberries but for me 'Linger' was the song that I remember them most for, it was their breakthrough hit, it went Top 10 in the US. I saw them live in 1994 at Shepherd's Bush Empire, Dolores had a unique voice for which both songs show off the uniqueness compared to some of their other more generic songs.