The "R&B Divas Series": Donna Summer Rankdown (REVEALING)

[#LisaRinna]

Welcome back to the reveals!
Today we go up to #16 and we'll start with a top 10 loss and two perfect rankings at #20.

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[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Now is probably when the Fuckery is about to begin

[#LisaRinna]

I might be trembling,
But i'm not scared
Just my desire breaking free



Final single from her eponymous 1982 album. The sultry "The Woman in Me" was produced by Quincy Jones and reached #33 on the Hot 100, #17 at Adult Contemporary and #30 on the R&B chart. Rock band Heart covered the song in 1994.

20. The Woman in Me
Points: 273
Average: 19,625
Standard deviation: 5,476

Mirago : 9

.indulgecountry : 12
#LisaRinna : 13
Glove Slap : 13
Soulsista : 13
@antigonerising : 16
samo🦕 : 16
Ky : 16
gonecountry : 17
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 19
God : 19
singingrulebritannia : 19
SHOOTER : 20
ccarter1023 : 20

mamooshka : 21
kamala 2024 truther : 22
wrip : 23
newpower : 24
Juanca : 24
Troublemaker : 25
Ivy Leegue™ : 26
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 27
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 28
bat1990 : 29

[#LisaRinna]

First song from the glorious 70s to be knocked out. Mess.

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[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

One off from a Perfect....Damn

[#LisaRinna]

I can't bear to see the sun go down
Casting stormy shadows all around
Nothing seems to matter, i just get by from day to day
I never thought that you would leave this way



When Donna and Giorgio were making magic in the 70s, they were able to produce the bops and the slow jams as well. "Winter Melody" is taken from her 1976 concept album Four Seasons of Love. The soul ballad peaked at #43 on the Hot 100, #8 at Adult Contemporary and #21 on the R&B chart.

19. Winter Melody
Points: 291
Average: 18,875
Standard deviation: 7,731

Ky : 2
#LisaRinna : 4
@antigonerising : 6
Mirago : 7

Glove Slap : 14
gonecountry : 16
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 16
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 18
SHOOTER : 18
kamala 2024 truther : 19
Juanca : 19
God : 20
singingrulebritannia : 20
newpower : 20

wrip : 21
Ivy Leegue™ : 22
.indulgecountry : 23
samo🦕 : 24
Troublemaker : 24
Soulsista : 26
bat1990 : 26
mamooshka : 28

Summer Cacophony:
ccarter1023 : 30
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 30

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

HOW DOES WINTER MELODY DESERVE A 30?!?

[samo🦕]

this was...nice

[#LisaRinna]

Back to the 90s with two more top 10s gone and close to 300 points.

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[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Ill Go With You is probably next

[#LisaRinna]

I always stayed away from love
Afraid of what might might happen
Till I thought I heard a sound above
Singing through my very own heart



"Melody of Love" was one of the original songs on Donna's 1994 Greatest Hits compilation called Endless Summer. She co-wrote the song with David Cole and Robert Clivillés of C&C Music Factory and Joe Carrano. It failed to make a dent on the Hot 100 but it was a #1 Dance hit in the US.

18. Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)
Points: 298
Average: 18,583
Standard deviation: 6,633

Ky : 5
kamala 2024 truther : 6

🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 11
@antigonerising : 13
wrip : 14
.indulgecountry : 14
Juanca : 15
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 15
singingrulebritannia : 16
newpower : 16
bat1990 : 16
samo🦕 : 18
mamooshka : 18
Ivy Leegue™ : 20
Troublemaker : 20

#LisaRinna : 21
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 23
Soulsista : 24
ccarter1023 : 24
God : 26
SHOOTER : 26
gonecountry : 26
Glove Slap : 29
Mirago : 30

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Winter Melody is decent...but boring.

[#LisaRinna]

Feb 7, 2021 13:54:42 GMT -5 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 said:

Winter Melody is decent...but boring.

[wrip]

I love how Melody Of Love changes tempo partway through, the hype of it is great

[#LisaRinna]

Another 70s bop is out next and brings 6 top 10 rankings with it!

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[#LisaRinna]

Spirits move me
Every time I'm near you
Whirling like a cyclone in my mind



Originally recorded by Barry Manilow in 1975, Donna released her Disco version of "Could It Be Magic" a few months later in early 1976 as part of her A Love Trilogy album. Her version became a Dance hit and made it to #52 on the Hot 100.

17. Could It Be Magic
Points: 337
Average: 16,958
Standard deviation: 7,099

God : 3
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 6
Ky : 7
newpower 8
wrip : 10
singingrulebritannia : 10

SHOOTER : 11
bat1990 : 13
samo🦕 : 13
Mirago : 16
Ivy Leegue™ : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18
#LisaRinna : 19
Juanca : 20

@antigonerising : 21
Glove Slap : 21
Soulsista : 22
ccarter1023 : 22
Troublemaker : 23
mamooshka : 24
gonecountry : 24
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 25
kamala 2024 truther : 27
.indulgecountry : 27

[#LisaRinna]

The last reveal for the day will gift another perfect ranking.

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[#LisaRinna]

She stared him right back in the eyes
With a look of disbelief
Then she gazed off into somewhere else
Was it real or just a dream?



Another DonnaxGiorgio piece, "I Love You" was yet another Disco hit from 1977's Once Upon a Time. It reached #37 on the Hot 100.

16. I Love You
Points: 363
Average: 15,875
Standard deviation: 6,024

wrip : 7
samo🦕 : 8
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 8
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 : 9

newpower : 11
singingrulebritannia : 11
mamooshka : 11
God : 13
Troublemaker : 13
kamala 2024 truther : 13
Ivy Leegue™ : 14
Ky : 15
Soulsista : 16
SHOOTER : 17
bat1990 : 17
Juanca : 18
@antigonerising : 19
.indulgecountry : 19
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 20
#LisaRinna : 20
Glove Slap : 20

ccarter1023 : 25
Mirago : 27
gonecountry : 30

[SHOOTER]

Could It Be Magic is another underrated gem in her catalog!

[#LisaRinna]

The top 15:

Love to Love You Baby
Could It Be Magic
Winter Melody
I Feel Love
I Love You
Last Dance
MacArthur Park
Heaven Knows
Hot Stuff
Bad Girls
Dim All the Lights
Walk Away
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
On the Radio
Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)
The Woman in Me
She Works Hard for the Money
This Time I Know It's for Real
Melody of Love (Wanna Be Loved)
I'll Go with You (Con te partirò)

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[Soulsista]

Okay, "No More Tears" has really overstayed.

[kamala 2024 truther]

Now WHAT is "Melody of Love" doing out before the Top 10?!

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Feb 7, 2021 13:57:48 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

Feb 7, 2021 13:54:42 GMT -5 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 said:

Winter Melody is decent...but boring.

I said what I said.

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Only one top 10 loss so far (#justiceforWinterMelody). That's pretty solid! Hopefully 15-11 don't turn into a sudden disaster for me lol.

[Ivy Leegue™]

Feb 5, 2021 16:55:35 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

She sells this one.

Right. I KNEW Unconditional Love wouldn't stand a chance here because it is both sappy AND religious, but I had the single on vinyl as a kid and it has such great childhood memories attached to it for me, so yeah. Sad to see it go, but not sad about the rest. Shocked anyone would have those songs in their top 10, LOL.

Feb 5, 2021 17:13:58 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

And when I am blue
Close my eyes and dream of you
Silent echoes scream out your name
You're the keeper of my flame



Soft and silky vocals over a seductive R&B beat is how Donna welcomed the 90s wiht her new blond look and the Mistaken Identity album. "When Love Cries" was the leaf single, which performed rather disappointignly reaching only #18 on the R&B chart and #77 on the Hot 100.

27. When Love Cries

Ivy Leegue™ : 2

Gyal.

Feb 6, 2021 17:05:07 GMT -5 CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker said:

Im content. I hate that TGMB is out but i personally couldn't stand The Wanderer

Right. TGMB is BEAUTIFUL. I didn't think it would be out this early, honestly. But, The Wanderer sounds like some kinda bad Elvis impersonation. DREADFUL. Even more dreadful is the fact that is on the Greatest Hits I have.

I lost a top 10 but YESSS at the perfect ranking of Could This Be Magic. I wanted to rank it higher but there is just too much perfection ahead of it.

[#LisaRinna]

Ivy Leegue™ nnn check again

[bat1990]

Feb 7, 2021 18:18:55 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

Ivy Leegue™ nnn check again

I ranked "The Woman in Me" at 29 not 30. Are you trying to correct my apparent slander of what I ranked at 30? :kii:

EDIT: The rest of my ranks appear to be correct so maybe it was a small mistype.

[#LisaRinna]

Feb 8, 2021 8:44:11 GMT -5 bat1990 said:

Feb 7, 2021 18:18:55 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

Ivy Leegue™ nnn check again

I ranked "The Woman in Me" at 29 not 30. Are you trying to correct my apparent slander of what I ranked at 30? :kii:

EDIT: The rest of my ranks appear to be correct so maybe it was a small mistype.

I corrected it.

[gonecountry]

I have a feeling that the finger is on the trigger for Love is in Control, and that it will be packing its bags shortly.

I'm just hoping for a Top 10 for This Time I Know It's For Real.

The top 5 is gonna be brutal.

[Glove Slap]

Still got 11/15. Not bad so far but I can see some of my top 10 going right away.