Ongarboy

I'm still perplexed as to why THRILLER and BAD albums haven't been recertified by BPI by now. I thought all certifications were automatically generated nowadays or is that just singles?

Not forgetting Rush, Rush. That or Straight Up could've been #1s, I remember they were both so huge at the time.

I think the key to prevent RMI from permanently returning to #1 in the future is not a weekly strong competitor to outsell them but for them to finally go onto ACR. They must surely hold the record for repeatedly dodging ACR at this stage?

I think the posts here and in the other thread are very revealing as to the demographic of the posters..including myself. I guess I am too old to understand that Avril was considered huge by a certain generation..I just assumed she was another grungy chick of the 00s with a few hits...popular but not stratospherically so. I probably could only recall Complicated from her and never viewed that as a surefire #1 type song either To say "You Make My Dreams" is what most people only know Hall & Oates by suggests someone who only grew up in the streaming era as that song only emerged as a streaming hit in the last few years. Ask anyone who remembers H&O from the 80s and 90s, they'd definitely not cite that song and pick half a dozen other hits before it. Like Janet, I think they were bigger in America than over here so its not totally absurd that they didn't have a #1 here in my opinion. I picked Bon Jovi for the survey but Bruce and Tina were a close second as their success transcends at least 3 or 4 decades of many hits that I believe most can recognise as bona fide "hits"!

I'd have thought Venus was their signature tune...it even reached Number One in USA!

It just shows that having a number one song often has nothing to do with enduring popularity or legacy. The biggest travesty is not that some of these amazing artists listed in this thread never had a Number One but that Geri Haliwell had 4... awful singer and even more awful songs!

Normally Ireland doesn't deviate too much from UK charts in the globalised streaming era but Choosin Texas already has reached #1 in Ireland (like USA) so its rather surprising that it hasn't dented the top 10 in UK at all...

I wonder why the BPI site is not co-crediting Mariah Carey with Busta Rhymes on "I Know What You Want"?

UK allows streams to be double counted if they are going towards a studio album and a label nominated Greatest Hits so TD chart position should not be affected from streaming although pure sales may be dented somewhat if consumers opt to download /purchase GH over TD.

Well technically it did briefly chart at #62 in 2009 in the aftermath of MJ's passing along with many other of his past hits when the 3 song rule hadn't yet kicked in but it was never officially released in the UK during the Thriller era in the early 80s.

Delighted...HN is one of my favourite MJ songs of all time...Great to finally see it chart in the UK!!

Bad and Thriller to respectively go 15 and 16 times Platinum imminently!

I'm not sure though...I'd have thought her debut hit and as yet uncertified VISION OF LOVE would have been the better known song and have accumulated more post 1994 units. I remember when that came out...it was played on radio nonstop and everyone was calling her the next Whitney Houston. Its possibly my favourite Mariah song too so I'm biased! 😊 EMOTIONS is a fun song but I dont recall it then or now being one of her more signature or ubiquitous hits. It didnt even make the top 10 in the UK despite it being the launch song of her highly anticipated second album

The mix with Milkshake by Kelis at clubs is great too! ❤️ 🕺

Its a bit like The Weeknd's The Highlights album. A massively successful album that reached #2 on many occasions and an outstanding 196 weeks in the Top 10 alone (still there as of most recent chart) but could never quite hit #1.