Quite a big drop for Live forever on Apple, went from #2 to #8 :/

Sabrina is back to monopolising the entire top 3 :/

There’s probably a lot of The Beatles songs that fit that category!

Yeah you're right, I think it would actually be a Beatles song that's the most famous non-single, probably 'Here Comes The Sun' as Jade mentioned - I'd forgotten that wasn't a single. 'Stairway To Heaven', 'I Wanna Be Yours' and 'Mardy Bum' are also good shouts. I'm not sure that Eminem song even comes close, it's nowhere near in the same league as the others mentioned IMO.

 

But defining singles is tricky, especially nowadays where you're less likely to get definitive physical releases. Like if we're being strict, "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen was never released as a single. It doesn't have artwork, or a music video. It was released before the album, but part of a "3 Songs At A Time Sampler" (which still didn't have its own artwork). The only thing it has going for it to define it as a single is that it got promoted to radio, but then so did "Stairway To Heaven". A lot of the time it feels like a technicality as to what is and isn't a single, and very rarely do I see it consistently followed.

Yes it's definitely harder to define what is and isn't a single these days but we're talking about years old cassics here, back then there was no ambiguity.

 

Btw was 'Stairway To Heaven' really promoted to radio at the time of the album's release? I'd always assumed it only gathered radio play in subsequent years.

Edited September 2, 2024Sep 2 by Mangø

Here Comes the Sun was never a single at the time (charted only later in the digital era).

Five new entries on Spotify today:

 

119. Drake - Circadian Rhythm

129. Drake - No Face

131. Surf Curse - Disco

162. The Kid LAROI - BABY I'M BACK

172. Paolo Nutini - Candy

 

Great to see another Surf Curse song take off after 'Freaks' a couple of years ago!

'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da', 'With A Little Help From My Friends', 'Don't Let Me Down' are also quite well known despite I believe not being singles (in the first two cases other acts had hits with them and WALHFMF has been number 1 three times by three different artists - which possibly makes that the most well known of all?)

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Btw was 'Stairway To Heaven' really promoted to radio at the time of the album's release? I'd always assumed it only gathered radio play in subsequent years.

That's also one that's hard to define, some songs just get radio airplay on random whims. In the case of Led Zeppelin, the image on the song's Wikipedia article is literally a sleeve sent to radio stations by Atlantic Records. Discogs tells me that this was put out in 1972 (the album was Nov 1971). I'd say that's sufficient enough to call it radio promo.

I was hoping we'd see BABY I'M BACK charting soon, it's been going viral. Another hit pls *.*

We dont need more random Drake songs!!

If there ever proof that Drake uses ghostwriters, no way he knows what circadian rhythms are lol 😅

The Chain by Fleetwood Mac is up there in that most famous non-singles discussion too I think.

 

But I'd agree with Oasis (Champagne Supernova in particular feels like a song most people would know) Led Zeppelin (Stairway To Heaven) and The Beatles (Here Comes The Sun and Blackbird).

‘Till I Collapse’ is one of the most iconic songs in Hip-Hop!

 

The average person is a lot more likely to know that than the Arctic Monkeys tracks that have been mentioned (especially ‘Mardy Bum’ and ‘505’):

Oasis:

 

6 Live Forever (320,605 streams)

7 Don't Look Back In Anger (311,154)

11 Wonderwall (274,709)

23 Champagne Supernova (214,276)

24 Supersonic (209,935)

28 She's Electric (185,796)

35 Half The World Away (166,834)

39 Stop Crying Your Heart Out (155,330)

50 Slide Away (134,786)

 

Everyone really just had the songs on throughout Saturday while trying (and probably failing) to get tickets. I'm sure it's still more than enough for Live Forever to reach a new peak. And they will return next summer, of course.

 

Sabrina still No.1 with Taste (634,688 streams), No.2 with Please Please Please (440,633) and No.3 with Espresso (428,803).

 

Into the top 50 go Goo Goo Dolls' Iris (No.42), Jimin's Who [the hell keeps pushing this back up?] (No.44), Sabrina's Slim Pickins (No.47), Coldplay's Yellow (No.48) and Lord Huron's The Night We Met (No.49).

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I'd say 'She's Electric' is possibly the most famous song never released as a single, probably along with 'Champagne Supernova' and 'Morning Glory' - unless anyone can think of any more famous non-singles than those?

 

I really had no idea. Has it become particularly popular since they split? It wasn't even included on Time Flies.

Some of these tracks mentioned have been included on the artists' greatest hits/compilations and so have further grown in popularity since.

 

Stairway to Heaven I discovered when going through Led Zepellin's greatest hits many years ago and I would never have thought it wasn't a single back in the day - it's their biggest, most glorious song that deserves the acclaim it has since received.

 

I'd say The Beatles options mentioned here are probably good shouts for most well-known album tracks. But again, they feature on greatest hits albums now and so have earned their stripes amongst the singles and are heard as much as they are by casual fans.

Didn't Led Zeppelin somewhat famously not release singles whatsoever?

We dont need more random Drake songs!!

 

Apparently Drake is just leaking various songs hoping one becomes a hit before adopting it as a serious song but if they go nowhere he just acts like it was an old song leaked and not a new single. This is supposedly the 15th song he’s released in this way and so far none have gone anywhere. He’s trying to intellectually dodge the washed allegations by avoiding songs being called flops.

Spotify Chart Update (01/09)

 

01 01 Sabrina Carpenter – Taste 634,688

02 03 Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please 440,633

03 04 Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso 428,803

04 06 Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER 419,761

05 07 Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! 402,423

06 02 Oasis – Live Forever - Remastered 320,605

07 05 Oasis – Don't Look Back In Anger - Remastered 311,154

08 09 Chase & Status, Stormzy – BACKBONE 303,245

09 12 Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile 291,866

10 13 Sabrina Carpenter – Bed Chem 290,924

 

11 08 Oasis – Wonderwall - Remastered 274,709

12 17 Hozier – Too Sweet 258,285

13 16 Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) 250,233

14 18 Charli xcx, Billie Eilish – Guess featuring Billie Eilish 248,519

15 20 Benson Boone – Beautiful Things 244,930

16 19 Myles Smith – Stargazing 236,420

17 15 BL3SS, CamrinWatsin, bbyclose – Kisses (feat. bbyclose) 234,854

18 24 Chappell Roan – HOT TO GO! 227,966

19 23 Noah Kahan – Stick Season 227,212

20 25 Teddy Swims – Lose Control 223,946

 

21 22 Dasha – Austin (Boots Stop Workin') 220,030

22 27 Sabrina Carpenter – Good Graces 215,814

23 10 Oasis – Champagne Supernova - Remastered 214,276

24 11 Oasis – Supersonic - Remastered 209,935

25 28 Post Malone, Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help (Feat. Morgan Wallen) 199,878

26 29 Charli xcx – Apple 194,460

27 33 Sabrina Carpenter – Juno 188,336

28 14 Oasis – She's Electric - Remastered 185,796

29 42 Gracie Abrams – I Love You, I'm Sorry 178,821 [*PEAK*]

30 38 Jordan Adetunji – KEHLANI 177,530

 

31 49 Gigi Perez – Sailor Song 173,572 [*PEAK*]

32 40 *NSYNC – Bye Bye Bye - From Deadpool and Wolverine Soundtrack 167,708

33 37 The Killers – Mr. Brightside 167,623

34 34 Adam Port, Stryv, Keinemusik, Orso, Malachiii – Move 167,433

35 26 Oasis – Half The World Away - Remastered 166,834

36 39 Benson Boone – Slow It Down 163,810

37 43 Taylor Swift – Cruel Summer 162,656

38 41 Sabrina Carpenter – Coincidence 161,233

39 21 Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out 159,330

40 45 Sabrina Carpenter – Sharpest Tool 155,167

 

41 44 Hanumankind, Kalmi – Big Dawgs 154,944

44 60 Jimin – Who 148,807

52 67 Billie Eilish – WILDFLOWER 133,384

73 55 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D – Somedays 109,337

100 114 Addison Rae – Diet Pepsi 92,829 [*PEAK*]

 

101 88 JADE – Angel Of My Dreams 92,738

108 139 Gracie Abrams – Close To You 89,612

119 NE Drake – Circadian Rhythm 85,668 [*PEAK*]

129 NE Drake – No Face 81,642 [*PEAK*]

131 NE Surf Curse – Disco 80,498 [*PEAK*]

147 125 Post Malone, Luke Combs – Guy For That (Feat. Luke Combs) 78,019

154 145 Coldplay – feelslikeimfallinginlove 76,618

156 147 Alex Warren – Carry You Home 76,526

161 190 Pharrell Williams – Double Life - From "Despicable Me 4" 75,419

162 NE The Kid LAROI – BABY I'M BACK 75,391 [*PEAK*]

169 135 Dominic Fike – misses 74,406

175 122 CYRIL – Stumblin' In 73,689

181 169 Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI – WE PRAY 72,922

Really want ‘Bed Chem’ to miraculously enter Sabrina’s top 3 at some point but… ugh.

 

It’s really starting to go viral now. Pretty much every other video of mine on TT has been that song.

after the climb last week due to the album, PPP and Espresso should start dropping and hopefully move to ACR in 3 weeks :)

after the climb last week due to the album, PPP and Espresso should start dropping and hopefully move to ACR in 3 weeks :)

 

We hope lol, doesnt always happen in January for example.

Espresso might escape the ACR, but PPP is very unlikely to do so.