Cyrax

What is the reason for the reappearance/climb of Greatest Hits 1970-2002?

Any particular reason for the climb of (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

I don't think most of them are that remembered by the masses, just stuff like Changes, Life On Mars? or Rebel Rebel...

Like A Virgin peaked at #3. From Madonna's canon, Express Yourself might qualify here as well, peaked at #5.

So now The Hits/The B-Sides is back to the top 40 after dropping hard but The Hits 1 & The Hits 2 are gone? Is it really down to just record store stock?

Is The Hits 1 charting separately from The Hits/The B-Sides now? How is it possible, I thought it was long out of print and digital sellers only offered the 3 "disc" edition? Not to mention that The Hits 2 has some of the biggest hits (Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, Raspberry Beret, Kiss, Cream)...

Poor Around The World In A Day missing out from charting in the upper regions, that one will always be punished for not being "Purple Rain Part II":

Is The Hits/The B-Sides available digitally only? Not sure if it's still in print as Ultimate might have replaced it. Wonder if Warner will release another Prince compilation with licensing some post-1993 tracks like The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, Gold, Betcha By Golly, Wow!, Musicology, Call My Name, Black Sweat, Future Baby Mama...

On Sticky & Sweet Tour almost nothing sounded like album version, then on MDNA Tour we had Papa Don't Preach, Express Yourself, Vogue, Human Nature & Like A Prayer that sound like album/The Immaculate Collection versions and on Rebel Heart Tour nothing really strayed off its familiar arrangement except Dress You Up and the acoustic songs. Music starts out as a torch song but then it's literally the album version playing, such a disappointment... :(

Two of her very best album tracks, love them both but I'm giving a slight edge to 1994 with that smooth melody and amazing vocals.

That's little to do with it as in the 1990s she jumped on the R&B/Adult Contemporary bandwagon and she scored several hits. Then the electronica transition was also convenient for her but then people stopped loving her with American Life when she was no longer doing relatable pop music. She rectified that with COADF and HC was pretty successful considering the circumstances but to me after she left Warner she's been mostly repeating herself (Going back to William Orbit? Another single featuring Nicki Minaj?) and she stopped working with just a handful people and it became A&R'ing songs from other songwriters which is so not what she used to be for 25 years... Then again she is pushing 60 so nothing she does is likely to get much attention, only a select few fans would be pleased if she "went indie", like how she went back to William Orbit and how she stopped reinventing her hits and is only doing album versions on tour. I guess that's how business works now, can be compared to never-ending franchise films, safe and predictable.

Devil Wouldn't Recognize You is a highlight in the later part of her career, a perfectly written and produced song that was immortalized by the stunning live rendition. Devil Pray has always been just ideas thrown together that does not stick, some parts are good, mostly the lyrics but others are ruined by the simple Avicii-like melody and especially the iffy vocals, like during "The ground beneath..." bit. I also fail to see the point of those weird auto-tuned vocals added in the album version, she seems to have really obsessed to change *something* after the songs leaked. The song was interesting for 15 minutes when she put the first 6 songs for sale in December 2014...

Wonder why Under Pressure is sequenced wrong on Best of Bowie and 3-disc version of Nothing Has Changed, while it's correctly put on The Singles Collection & 2-disc version of Nothing Has Changed as it came out a year later than Scary Monsters...

+10 Bitch I'm Madonna +9 Autotune Baby +8 Shoo-Bee-Doo +7 Hey You +6 Girl Gone Wild +5 S.E.X. +4 B-Day Song +3 Did You Do It? +2 Spanish Lesson +1 Candy Shop Can't believe none of the last two tracks of True Blue are in...

What about the 2CD version of Nothing Has Changed, is it not widely available? I believe its tracklist is very similar to Best of Bowie.

Nothing Has Changed. The best compilation of his although I miss TVC 15, Look Back In Anger, Cat People (Putting Out Fire), Underground & Day-In Day-Out from it.

Definitely, not only it's the best introduction to Prince but one of greatest compilation albums ever!

Shoo-Bee-Doo Jimmy Jimmy Love Makes The World Go Round Words Inside Of Me To Have And Not To Hold Little Star Nobody's Perfect Superstar Bitch I'm Madonna

Borderline

Into The Groove

Whitney Houston 1.5 Hold Me (Ft Teddy Pendergrass 3.0 All At Once 7.0 You Give Good Love 9.0 Saving All My Love For You 8.5 How Will I Know 8.5 Greatest Love Of All Whitney 9.0 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 6.0 Didn't We Almost Have It All 6.5 So Emotional 9.5 Where Do Broken Hearts Go 6.5 Love Will Save The Day I'm Your Baby Tonight 9.5 I'm Your Baby Tonight 9.0 All The Man That I Need 9.0 Miracle 9.0 My Name Is Not Susan 10.0 I Belong To You The Bodyguard Soundtrack 9.0 I Will Always Love You 8.0 I'm Every Woman 8.0 I Have Nothing 8.0 Run To You 7.5 Queen Of The Night Waiting To Exhale & The Preacher's Wife Soundtracks 9.0 Exhale (Shoop, Shoop) 5.0 Count On Me (Ft CeCe Winans) 6.0 Why Does It Hurt So Bad 8.0 I Believe In You And Me 8.0 Step By Step My Love Is Your Love 9.0 When You Believe (Ft Mariah Carey) 8.0 Heartbreak Hotel 7.5 It's Not Right But It's Okay 8.0 My Love Is Your Love 8.0 I Learned From The Best Whitney: The Greatest Hits 8.0 Could I Have This Kiss Forever (Ft Enrique Iglesias) 6.5 If I Told You That (Ft George Michael) Just Whitney 5.0 Whatulookinat' 5.0 One Of Those Days 5.0 Try It On My Own I Look To You 4.5 I Look To You 7.00 Million Dollar Bill Other Releases 7.0 One Moment In Time 6.5 It Isn't, It Wasn't It Ain't Never Gonna Be (Ft Aretha Franklin) 5.0 Somthing In Common (Ft Bobby Brown) 5.0 Celebrate (Ft Jordin Sparks)

Won't do much for her at this point, the single has been largely ignored. But I'm still waiting to hear the album!

But none of these arguments have anything to do with NOT being a "one album wonder". :wacko: Cyndi is an icon exactly because of that one big album!

More on the US chart performance: http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news...ur-debuts-earth -- Madonna, "MDNA World Tour" (No. 90): The album version of Madonna's "MDNA World Tour" concert video release debuts at No. 90 with 4,000 sold. It was issued only as a digital album and a CD-R on demand from Amazon.com. It is her 26th chart entry on the Billboard 200. Meanwhile, on the Music Video Sales chart, the blu-ray and DVD version of the "MDNA World Tour" release combine to sell 11,000 for a No. 1 debut. It's her 10th No. 1 and sixth chart-topper in a row. Her last live album and video release, 2010's "Sticky & Sweet Tour," was released on blu-ray, CD/DVD and as a digital album. The former configuration enabled its No. 1 debut on Music Video Sales with 5,000, while the latter two combined for a No. 10 arrival on the Billboard 200 (28,000). Had "MDNA World Tour" been issued on traditional CD and CD/DVD (and/or CD/blu-ray combo), then the album would have naturally charted much higher than No. 90 on the Billboard 200.

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie sold twice than that yet it is widely regarded as a flop because it faded into oblivion very quickly. Cyndi had two major hits after She's So Unusual ("True Colors" & "I Drove All Night") but none of her albums got any attention and I believe her debut sold 6 million in the US alone so True Colors selling 3 million WW still makes her eligible to this list in my opinion.