Albums whose biggest hit is not its best known song

[tekkenguy]

What albums’ biggest hit songs are not their best known today?

[jimijoop]

Damita Jo:
Biggest hit: Just a Little While
Best known song: All Nite (Don't Stop)

Speak Now:
Biggest hit: Mine
Best Known song: Enchanted

Lover
Biggest Hits: ME!/You need to Calm Down
Best Known Songs: Lover/Cruel Summer

Reputation:
Biggest hit: Look What You Made Me Do
Best Known Song: Don't Blame Me

Red:
Biggest hit: I Knew You Were Trouble
Best Known Song: All too Well

MDNA:
Biggest hit: Give me all your luvin
Best Known Song: Girl Gone Wild

Madame X:
Biggest Hit: Medellin
Best Known Song: Back that up to the beat

Overcome (Alexandra Burke)
Biggest hit: Bad Boys
Best Known Song: Hallelujah

FOUR
Biggest Hit: Steal my girl
Best Known Song: Night changes

[someguy]

Rumor Has It
Biggest hit: You Lie
Best known: Fancy

[rainie]

isn't there already another thread for this ? anyways

drake - views
biggest hit - once dance
best known - hotline bling

black eyed peas - elephunk
biggest hit - where is the love
best known (arguably) - let's get it started

black eyed peas - monkey business
biggest hit - don't phunk with my heart / my humps
best known - pump it

beyoncé - renaissance
biggest hit: break my soul
best known (arguably): cuff it

sisqo - the thong album
biggest hit: incomplete
best known: the thong song

[dremolus - solarpunk]

LEMONADE
Biggest Hit: Sorry
Most Well-Known: Formation

The Marshall Mathers LP
Biggest Hit: The Real Slim Shady
Most Well-Known: Stan

Escape:
Biggest Hit: Open Arms
Most Well-Known: Don't Stop Believin'

EMOTION
Biggest Hit: I Really Like You
Most Well-Known: Run Away With Me

The Black Album
Biggest Hit: Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Most Well-Known: 99 Problems

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Daydream

Biggest Hit: One Sweet Day

Most Well Known: Fantasy, Always Be My Baby 

[tekkenguy]

Breaking Dawn Part 1
-Biggest Hit: It Will Rain
-Best Known Song: A Thousand Years

Californication
-Biggest Hit: Scar Tissue
-Best Known Song: Californication

Combat Rock
-Biggest Hit: Rock the Casbah
-Best Known Song: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Document
-Biggest Hit: The One I Love
-Best Known Song: It's the End of the World as We Know It

Dookie
-Biggest Hit: When I Come Around
-Best Known Song: Basket Case

The Final Countdown
-Biggest Hit: Carrie
-Best Known Song: The Final Countdown

Hot Space
-Biggest Hit: Body Language
-Best Known Song: Under Pressure

Hysteria
-Biggest Hit: Love Bites
-Best Known Song: Pour Some Sugar on Me

An Innocent Man
-Biggest Hit: Tell Her About it
-Best Known Song: Uptown Girl

Led Zeppelin IV
-Biggest Hit: Black Dog
-Best Known Song: Stairway to Heaven

Madman Across the Water
-Biggest Hit: Levon
-Best Known Song: Tiny Dancer

Midnight Memories
-Biggest Hit: Best Song Ever
-Best Known Song: Story of my Life

One-X
-Biggest Hit: Pain
-Best Known Song: Animal I Have Become

Parallel Lines
-Biggest Hit: Heart of Glass
-Best Known Song: One Way or Another

Permanent Vacation
-Biggest Hit: Angel
-Best Known Song: Dude (Looks Like a Lady)

Please, Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em
-Biggest Hit: Pray
-Best Known Song: U Can't Touch This

The Razor's Edge
-Biggest Hit: Moneytalks
-Best Known Song: Thunderstruck

The Rising Tied
-Biggest Hit: Where'd You Go?
-Best Known Song: Remember the Name

Smash
-Biggest Hit: Come Out and Play
-Best Known Song: Self-Esteem

Stranger In Town
-Biggest Hit: Still The Same
-Best Known Song: Old Time Rock and Roll

This Fire
-Biggest Hit: Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
-Best Known Song: I Don't Want to Wait

Toxicity
-Biggest Hit: Aerials
-Best Known Song: Chop Suey!

X&Y
-Biggest Hit: Speed of Sound
-Best Known Song: Fix You

[neogale]

One Of The Boys, by Katy Perry:
Biggest hit: I Kissed A Girl
Best known song: Hot N Cold

[jdanton2]

Apr 30, 2023 12:51:47 GMT -5 tekkenguy said:

Parallel Lines
-Biggest Hit: Heart of Glass
-Best Known Song: One Way or Another

i think Heart Of Glass is better known . there are three versions on Spotify that combined is higher than One Way Or Another . on You Tube Heart Of Glass has alot more views.

[mkarns]

In fairness, some of the best known songs from those albums had only limited commercial single releases (“U Can’t Touch This”) or none at all (“Stairway To Heaven”). So the Billboard Hot 100 didn’t really accurately tell which songs from them were most popular even at the time, let alone retrospectively.

[leonagwen]

Madonna Bed Time Stories. Most known song- Secret, biggest hit- Take a Bow.

[jimijoop]

4
Biggest hit: Best Thing I Ever Had
Best known song: Love On Top

I look to you
Biggest hit: Million Dollar Bill
Best Known Song: I Look To You

[irice22]

Hotel Paper

Biggest Hit: Are You Happy Now?
Best Known: Breathe

"Breathe" has 2x more streams. All those movie trailers it was in.

[tekkenguy]

May 16, 2023 12:46:05 GMT -5 irice22 said:

Hotel Paper

Biggest Hit: Are You Happy Now?
Best Known: Breathe

"Breathe" has 2x more streams. All those movie trailers it was in.

On that topic: The Spirit Room
-Biggest Hit: All You Wanted
-Best-Known Song: Everywhere

[Deleted]

Apr 29, 2023 23:43:41 GMT -5 dremolus - solarpunk said:

The Marshall Mathers LP
Biggest Hit: The Real Slim Shady
Most Well-Known: Stan

Um. What? 

[Luckie Starchild]

Hall & Oates - Voices
Biggest hit: "Kiss on My List"
Best-known song: "You Make My Dreams"

[tekkenguy]

More examples

15
-Biggest hit: Sorry
-Best known song: Crazy Bitch

Away from the Sun
-Biggest hit: When I’m Gone
-Best known song: Here Without You

Beast
-Biggest hit: Get Silly
-Best known song: Wobble

The Beautiful Letdown
-Biggest hit: Dare You to Move
-Best known song: Meant to Live

Infinity on High
-Biggest hit: This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race
-Best known song: Thnks fr th Mmrs

Jazz
-Biggest hit: Bicycle Race
-Best known song: Don’t Stop Me Now

No Strings Attached
-Biggest hit: It’s Gonna Be Me
-Best known song: Bye Bye Bye

Only By the Night
-Biggest hit: Use Somebody
-Best known song: Sex on Fire

Overexposed
-BIggest hit: One More Night
-Best known song: Payphone

The Presidents of the United States of America
-Biggest hit: Peaches
-Best known song: Lump

Scars & Souvenirs
-Biggest hit: Not Meant To Be
-Best known song: Bad Girlfriend

Songs from the Big Chair
-Biggest hit: Shout
-Best known song: Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Still Not Getting Any…
-Biggest hit: Welcome to my Life
-Best known song: Untitled

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
-Biggest hit: Helena
-Best known song: I’m Not Okay (I Promise)

Vessel
-Biggest hit: Holding On to You
-Best known song: Car Radio

The Young and the Hopeless
-Biggest hit: Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous
-Best known song: The Anthem

[divasummer]

Apr 29, 2023 22:34:49 GMT -5 rainie said:

isn't there already another thread for this ? anyways

drake - views
biggest hit - once dance
best known - hotline bling

black eyed peas - elephunk
biggest hit - where is the love
best known (arguably) - let's get it started

black eyed peas - monkey business
biggest hit - don't phunk with my heart / my humps
best known - pump it

beyoncé - renaissance
biggest hit: break my soul
best known (arguably): cuff it

sisqo - the thong album
biggest hit: incomplete
best known: the thong song

I guess I agree with most of these except The Black Eyed Peas.
I think “My Humps” is a lot more remembered than “Pump It”..

[avamaxstan]

Apr 29, 2023 17:10:46 GMT -5 jimijoop said:

Speak Now:
Biggest hit: Mine
Best Known song: Enchanted

Lover
Biggest Hits: ME!/You need to Calm Down
Best Known Songs: Lover/Cruel Summer

Reputation:
Biggest hit: Look What You Made Me Do
Best Known Song: Don't Blame Me

Red:
Biggest hit: I Knew You Were Trouble
Best Known Song: All too Well

Isn't Mean still the best known song from SN? It went top 10 Billboard and won 2 Grammys. But that may change if Enchanted gets a big push for SNTV.

[johnm1120]

Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come

"A New Day Has Come" was the biggest hit from the album, but "I'm Alive" has way surpassed it in popularity today. It's her most viewed music video and among her top 10 most streamed.

[avamaxstan]

“Back to Black” - the biggest hit during the era was Rehab but it’s since been far, far surpassed by Back to Black and Valerie as Amy’s signature songs.