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Post by plankton5165 on Mar 3, 2023 12:07:48 GMT -5
I mean their chart runs at the time they were new.
It sounds like Smells Like Teen Spirit would be a #1 hit, not a #6 hit.
I'm a Slave 4 U had a frail chart run. It didn't make the year-end! It seems like it would easily!
I think we can go on.
I can name many 1984 hits that seem like they would have better chart runs, possibly be in the decade-end, such as That's All, Holiday, Here Comes The Rain Again, and Thriller.
Based on how many times I've heard these songs (I was born in 1999), not by choice of my own (by radios set by others), they seem more popular than Against All Odds!
Although, Against All Odds seems more like a 1997 hit than a 1984 hit.
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Post by someguy on Mar 4, 2023 1:49:03 GMT -5
Reba McEntire's "Fancy" - #8 at country radio, when it's become bigger than most of her #1s.
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Post by Glass Joe on Mar 4, 2023 20:56:28 GMT -5
I mean their chart runs at the time they were new. It sounds like Smells Like Teen Spirit would be a #1 hit, not a #6 hit. I'm a Slave 4 U had a frail chart run. It didn't make the year-end! It seems like it would easily! I think we can go on. I can name many 1984 hits that seem like they would have better chart runs, possibly be in the decade-end, such as That's All, Holiday, Here Comes The Rain Again, and Thriller. Based on how many times I've heard these songs (I was born in 1999), not by choice of my own (by radios set by others), they seem more popular than Against All Odds! Although, Against All Odds seems more like a 1997 hit than a 1984 hit. I agree! Those are all good points. Here are a few more to consider. Violent Femmes - "Blister in the Sun": This song became a cult classic in the late 90s and it is surprisingly from 1983. It is now a song that most people recognize, so it is kind of funny that it never charted at all. It may have been too ahead of it's time though to have a chart run. R.E.M. - "It's the End of the World as We Know It": Basically the same exact story as above. Very recognizable, but never charted. Should have been a Top 10 hit if it weren't so ahead of it's time. Paramore - "Misery Business": Now, this song did actually chart, but considering that it only peaked at #13 in 2008 is a little surprising because of how much it is now regarded as one of the most influential emo songs to emerge into the mainstream. Because it feels like it was part of the main 3 emo smashes (with "Sugar, We're Going Down" and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"), it probably should have also peaked in the Top 5, around #4 or #3 like those songs. |
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Post by Khia on Mar 6, 2023 11:12:05 GMT -5
Adding on to the "Fancy" mention above--"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is another great example: peaked at #12 on country radio and broke Reba's run of 24 consecutive top-ten hits. Today it's her second-most streamed track on Spotify, far ahead of everything other than "Fancy."
The parallel between those two tracks is interesting. Both of their respective album eras started with two top-three hits, followed by a cover that underperformed as the third single, and finishing with a fourth single that also made the top three.
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Post by kcdawg13 on Mar 6, 2023 13:50:03 GMT -5
This is the obvious answer but Running Up That Hill, tapped out No. 30 in the US during it's original run in 1985. But it wasn't some forgotten song, any fan of pop music, especially 80's music loved that song and it even got an MTV VMA nomination in 1986. But it deserved a better chart run which fortunately it got last year.
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Post by rainie on Mar 6, 2023 16:37:26 GMT -5
isn't this literally just the "songs that feel bigger then their peak" thread ?
that said if we're coming up with more examples of that then what abt enter sandman by metallica (#14) or one more time by daft punk (#61) ?
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Post by jimijoop on Mar 6, 2023 16:44:44 GMT -5
Coldplay - Yellow: Peaked at #48 on HOT100 and it charted only in a handful of countries during it's original run. Now the song has nearly 1 Billion views on Youtube, 1.5+ Billion streams on Spotify, it's one of the most known 2000s songs and one of their most popular songs in general.
And the opposite also from 2000:
Eiffel 65 - Move Your Body: Peaked at #1 on Euro 100 and #6 on the Euro 100 annual chart for 2000. It's so completely overshadowed by their biggest hit Blue (Da Ba Dee) to the point Eiffel 65 are mostly known as a One Hit Wonder these days, even in Europe.
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Post by plankton5165 on Jul 16, 2023 23:47:12 GMT -5
What about Little Runaway by Bon Jovi? I'm more likely to hear that on the radio than Always from 10 years later that was barely in the GOAT 600 in 2018!
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jul 17, 2023 7:41:20 GMT -5
Glass J- if talking Hot 100, that R.E.M. track peaked at No. 69. Still, the peak doesn't reflect ihow well it's known, all of that.
Regarding other songs that you'd think they were bigger chart hits than they were: "It's Raining Men" and "Electric Boogie" come to mind. Peaked in the 40s and 50s on the Hot 100.
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