April 13, 20196 yr Elton John has achieved the feat a few times - Don’t Go Breaking My Heart #1 Benny & The Jets #37 Are You Ready For Love #1 Little Jeannie #33 Sacrifice #1 Club At The End Of The Street #47 Doop - Doop #1 Huckleberry Jam #88 Robbie Williams - Candy #1 Different #64 Scouting For Girls - This Ain’t A Love Song #1 Famous #37 Zayn - Pillow Talk #1 It’s You #48 Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times #1 Sweet Creatures #46
April 13, 20196 yr Coldplay - Lost (54) The Beach Boys - Bluebirds Over The Mountain (33) ...And I can't remember what the follow-up was to Dreadlock Holiday by 10cc but they didn't even make the Top 75 for another four years. Edited April 13, 20196 yr by The Hit Parade
April 13, 20196 yr Foreigner - That Was Yesterday (28) followed I Want To Know What Love Is Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly (19) followed West End Girls Europe - Rock The Night (12) followed The Final Countdown Edited April 13, 20196 yr by zenon
April 13, 20196 yr Zayn - Pillow Talk #1 It’s You #48 Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times #1 Sweet Creatures #46 Neither of these were actual follow-up singles but they still both achieved it! ZAYN had LIKE I WOULD, which charted at #30, while Harry had Two Ghosts, which peaked at #58 :magic:
April 13, 20196 yr ^^ On that note, the Elton follow up to "Are You Ready For Love?" (2003 re-release) was "All That I'm Allowed (Thankful)" which charted at #20. Tasmin Archer followed up the excellent "Sleeping Satellite" (#1) with the excellent "In Your Care" (#16).
April 14, 20196 yr Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom #1 Sam and the Womp - Ravo DNC Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano #1 Yolanda Be Cool - Le Bump DNC Nero - Promises #1 Nero - Crush On You #32
April 14, 20196 yr I'm pretty sure Lil Nas X - Old Town Road -> TBC will be part of this list. And technically: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow -> Always Remember Us This Way #25 (was released a week later) Although I wouldn't call top 40 hit "not successful" in this day and age when songs actually have some longevity on charts. Edited April 14, 20196 yr by SKOB
April 14, 20196 yr A Little Peace - Nicole - No.1 - 1982 ( Eurovision winner for Germany Give Me More Time - No.75 I'm sure I read that it still holds the record for a No.1 and a No.75 and no other hits. Edited April 14, 20196 yr by Common Sense
April 14, 20196 yr Cliff Richard - Congratulations #1/I’ll Love You Forever Today #27 We Don’t Talk Anymore #1/Hot Shot #46 Living Doll #1/Born To Rock & Roll #78 The Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go #1/Dreamer #22 Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany’s #1/Josey #27 Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only #1/I’m A Man Not A Boy #27 Doctor & The Medics - Spirit In the Sky #1/Born #29 Nena - 99 Red Balloons #1/Just A Dream #70 Lulu - Relight My Fire #1/How ‘Bout Us #46
April 14, 20196 yr The Supremes: Baby love [#1] - Come see about me [#27] Marvin Gaye I heard it through the grapevine [#1] - Good loving ain’t easy to come by [#26]
April 14, 20196 yr Holler/Let Love Lead the Way #1 - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) #11 Technically fits this criteria, right? :kink:
April 14, 20196 yr Cheryl’s Only Human peaked at #70 after I Don’t Care was a #1 (Although I think it went there before the album release or something didn’t it)
April 14, 20196 yr Glenn Medeiros' four week number one hit in 1988 'Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You' was followed by 'Long And Lasting Love' that made #42 Edited April 14, 20196 yr by TheSnake
April 14, 20196 yr Ariana: problem/break free 1/16Break Free did go Platinum however so it doesn't truly count as 'unsuccessful'!
April 14, 20196 yr I think the problem with this thread is the "missing top 10" criteria in the opening post - there's hundreds of examples of this. Missing the top 40 is more of a genuine reason to call something a flop (but even then songs like Echame La Culpa were absolutely massive worldwide & I still wouldn't regard it as a flop over here as it got widespread bar & club play).
April 14, 20196 yr Break Free did go Platinum however so it doesn't truly count as 'unsuccessful'! I’d argue differently in terms of It debuted at 20 whereas problem debuted at 1 which I would argue is unsuccessful (compared to her debuts now as well). It had much better longevity so you could argue going platinum is indeed successful. The forum name change has not helped to clear things up. Looking solely at chart placements is easier but more difficult to call a flop nowadays with streaming as with the amount of sales you can still rack up despite chart rankings.
April 14, 20196 yr I seem to recall Break Free being excluded from the chart for the first few weeks it was selling on iTunes so its peak of #16 isn't an accurate reflection of its popularity.
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