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Post by leoapp on Jan 3, 2022 19:39:33 GMT -5
Some examples of big charting hits/famous hits but after years/decades, end up becoming underrated or (probably) forgotten among the musicians'catalogs?
Just because these musicians produced so many bigger/more famous hits?
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- Mariah Carey - Dreamlover/Honey/One Sweet Day
- Beyonce - Baby Boy
- Lady Gaga - Just Dance
- Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl
- Bruno Mars as a feature on Nothin' On You
More examples?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2022 20:08:06 GMT -5
I don't know if I'd call this song truly forgotten (it was in the Spider-Verse soundtrack a few years ago), but I'd say that this might just be the single most underrated hit song of the 1980s.
EDIT: Do the artists have to have had long and illustrious careers? I know that John Parr was a borderline one-hit wonder, Todd In The Shadows even did an episode of OHW on this song.
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Post by Au$tin on Jan 3, 2022 20:53:09 GMT -5
Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes
Britney Spears - Sometimes
Rihanna - Pon de Replay/SOS/Unfaithful
Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away (no matter how hard Kelly tries to make us all remember it lol)
Leona Lewis - Better in Time
Sean Kingston - Me Love
Katy Perry - Part of Me
Avril Lavigne - Don't Tell Me
Maroon 5 - Harder to Breathe
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Post by Joe1240 on Jan 3, 2022 22:12:25 GMT -5
Taylor Swift-Mine & Back To December
Christina Aguilera-Candyman & Keeps Gettin' Better
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 3, 2022 22:24:49 GMT -5
Beyonce- Check On It
Whitney Houston- Where Do Broken Hearts Go, One Moment In Time
Janet Jackson- All For You
Madonna- Who's That Girl, True Blue, This Used To Be My Playground, Rescue Me, Angel
Aretha Franklin- Get It Right (on the r&b charts)
The Supremes- The Happening, Love Is Here and Now Youre Gone
Diana Ross- It's My Turn, Muscles, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, Mirror Mirror
Donna Summer- Love Is In Control, The Wanderer
Micheal Jackson- I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Regina Belle- What Goes Around Comes Around, This Is Love
Pointer Sisters- Should I Do It
Barbra Streisand- The Fight/Main Event, My Heart Belongs To Me
Tina Turner- Typical Male, It's Only Love, One Of The Living
Monica- The First Night
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Post by johnm1120 on Jan 3, 2022 22:33:21 GMT -5
A Whitney Houston song that flies under the radar quite a bit is "Exhale." People tend to forget not only was it a #1, but it also spent 10 weeks at #2 (thanks to One Sweet Day).
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 4, 2022 0:11:08 GMT -5
A Whitney Houston song that flies under the radar quite a bit is "Exhale." People tend to forget not only was it a #1, but it also spent 10 weeks at #2 (thanks to One Sweet Day). Exhale has a huge urban audience. We associate that song with the WTES so it gets its appreciation from urban. As far as primarily pop listeners, the song definitely flies under the radar |
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Post by JukeboxJacob on Jan 4, 2022 15:30:54 GMT -5
Crocodile Rock by Elton John? One of the best 70's rock songs that hit #1 but it feels like hardly anyone knows it
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Post by gikem on Jan 4, 2022 16:05:31 GMT -5
Crocodile Rock by Elton John? One of the best 70's rock songs that hit #1 but it feels like hardly anyone knows it I hear this one all the time on Classic Hits stations, so it's certainly not forgotten, at least by those programmers. If you want an Elton John song that was huge at the time but now feels a bit underrated in his catalog, try Philadelphia Freedom. It was huge back in 1975, but it's kinda fallen to the wayside since. Which is a shame, because it's a great Philly soul track celebrating the USA, even despite coming from a Brit. |
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 4, 2022 17:27:15 GMT -5
Crocodile Rock by Elton John? One of the best 70's rock songs that hit #1 but it feels like hardly anyone knows it I'm going to have to disagree with this one. I feel it is one his most popular 70s songs. It still does relieve recurrent airplay on oldies rock stations. |
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Post by leonagwen on Jan 4, 2022 17:41:34 GMT -5
Crocodile Rock by Elton John? One of the best 70's rock songs that hit #1 but it feels like hardly anyone knows it I'm going to have to disagree with this one. I feel it is one his most popular 70s songs. It still does relieve recurrent airplay on oldies rock stations. Crocodile Rock, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Your Song and I'm Still Standing are the most played Elton John songs on oldies stations. |
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Post by JukeboxJacob on Jan 4, 2022 17:48:49 GMT -5
OK, I suspected I might've been wrong about that one
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 4, 2022 18:03:39 GMT -5
I'm going to have to disagree with this one. I feel it is one his most popular 70s songs. It still does relieve recurrent airplay on oldies rock stations. Crocodile Rock, Tiny Dancer, Rocket Man, Bennie and the Jets, Your Song and I'm Still Standing are the most played Elton John songs on oldies stations. And we can add all those songs to adult contemporary stations as well |
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Post by mkarns on Jan 4, 2022 18:58:44 GMT -5
Crocodile Rock by Elton John? One of the best 70's rock songs that hit #1 but it feels like hardly anyone knows it I hear this one all the time on Classic Hits stations, so it's certainly not forgotten, at least by those programmers. If you want an Elton John song that was huge at the time but now feels a bit underrated in his catalog, try Philadelphia Freedom. It was huge back in 1975, but it's kinda fallen to the wayside since. Which is a shame, because it's a great Philly soul track celebrating the USA, even despite coming from a Brit. "Philadelphia Freedom" still does get some play, but probably deserves more and not just because it was a #1 hit. On the other side of the coin is "Tiny Dancer", which gets played everywhere--never mind that it originally only peaked at #41. (I like PF better.) |
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Post by leoapp on Jan 4, 2022 20:03:23 GMT -5
Someone mentioned All For You???
It was the last popular Janet's hit. And today isnt it still popular?
Maybe Doesnt Really Matter is a better choice. It was big in 2000 but these days, even fans rarely talk about it.
I may add Kesha's We R Who We R.
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 4, 2022 21:10:05 GMT -5
Someone mentioned All For You??? It was the last popular Janet's hit. And today isnt it still popular? Maybe Doesnt Really Matter is a better choice. It was big in 2000 but these days, even fans rarely talk about it. I may add Kesha's We R Who We R. I did because even though it was huge in 2001, it is hardly mentioned or remembered when people (outside of Janet's fans) mention her songs. They go for the Control, Rhythm Nation, Janet, and Vekvet Rope era. Anything after Veltet Rope the GP doesn't mention at all. And I will agree with you on DRM. |
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Post by mkarns on Jan 6, 2022 18:33:59 GMT -5
Someone mentioned All For You??? It was the last popular Janet's hit. And today isnt it still popular? Maybe Doesnt Really Matter is a better choice. It was big in 2000 but these days, even fans rarely talk about it. I may add Kesha's We R Who We R. Regarding Kesha, "We R Who We R" seems to me to have gotten more attention over time than most of her hits other than "Tik Tok" and maybe "Die Young". OTOH, "Your Love Is My Drug" and "Blow" seemingly vanished from the earth as well as the charts in 2010-11. |
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Post by irice22 on Jan 7, 2022 19:45:10 GMT -5
Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away (no matter how hard Kelly tries to make us all remember it lol) lol, wait I want to know more about this. |
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Post by Au$tin on Jan 7, 2022 20:51:11 GMT -5
Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes Kelly Clarkson - Walk Away (no matter how hard Kelly tries to make us all remember it lol) lol, wait I want to know more about this. Nothing juicy, just up until somewhat recently she performed Walk Away at just about every event she could shove it in lol. Pretty sure she just loved performing it. |
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Post by Private Dancer on Jan 8, 2022 23:11:06 GMT -5
Karyn White- Romantic. It's like her 2nd album is ignored when Romantic is her only #1 hit. Anything from her first talcum is remembered but not Romantic.
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Post by After Minutes on Jan 9, 2022 6:07:16 GMT -5
Honestly Psycho by Posty. It hit #1 like four years ago but it's already been forgotten. With all of his other massive smashes, this one just doesn't seem comparably as big or anywhere as well-remembered (or liked even)
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Post by degen on Jan 10, 2022 3:49:27 GMT -5
“Independent Women, Part 1” by Destiny’s Child spent 11 weeks at #1, yet for some reason doesn’t feel as big today as “Say My Name,” “Bills, Bills, Bills” and “Survivor.”
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Post by spiritboy on Jan 11, 2022 7:31:14 GMT -5
Madonna's Take A Bow. Even the artist herself forgot about that song. :kii:
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Post by jimijoop on Feb 25, 2023 10:10:08 GMT -5
Rihanna - Shut up and drive
Britney Spears - Hold it against me/3/I wanna go
Carly Rae Jepsen feat. Owl City - Good time
Any Maroon 5's 00s hit that it isn't This Love & She will be loved
Jessica Simpson - I wanna love you forever
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Madonna - Music/The Power of Goodbye/Beautiful stranger/Jump/Give me all your lovin (Her last HOT100 TOP10 hit, yet it's among her most forgotten singles)
Rick Astley - Together Forever
Mariah Carey - Touch my body/It's like that
Destiny's Child - Lose my breath/Soldier
Justin Timberlake - My love
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Post by rnb on Feb 25, 2023 10:59:06 GMT -5
globally, rihanna’s “te amo” was a smash hit but now it rarely ever gets mentioned
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Post by Luckie Starchild on Feb 25, 2023 14:28:46 GMT -5
Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out"
Madonna - "Causing a Commotion"
Chicago - "Look Away"
Christina Aguilera - "I Turn To You"
Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine - "Bad Boy"
Bruce Springsteen - "I'm Goin' Down"
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Post by bjordan on Feb 25, 2023 15:25:07 GMT -5
Divine “Lately”(1998)
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Post by Luckie Starchild on Feb 25, 2023 16:37:26 GMT -5
Excellent choice! I don't even remember that song... I only know "You Think You're A Man." |
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Post by bjordan on Feb 25, 2023 16:47:08 GMT -5
Excellent choice! I don't even remember that song... I only know "You Think You're A Man." Divine was an R&B group from the late 90’s. You should check out “Lately”. |
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Post by Luckie Starchild on Feb 27, 2023 19:10:27 GMT -5
The Supremes- The Happening True story: Earlier today, I heard "The Happening" in a store and it came to mind that it was a great example of a forgotten song of an act's catalog, especially considering it hit #1. Then again, if it's so forgotten, why did I just hear it playing, 56 years after its release! |
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