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Author Topic: Albums with the most hit songs? Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-02-2009 05:44 PM                     Of course there's a big difference between a song being a "hit" versus it actually reaching the #1 rank on the Billboard Magazine pop singles charts. The term "hit" is often applied in an arguably subjective manner. How many copies of a single have to be sold for a song to be declared a hit? How high does it have to reach in the Billboard single charts to qualify as being a hit? How much radio airplay must it receive? How much critical acclaim or cult status must the song earn? In some respect lots of people will call a song a "hit" only because they like the song.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-02-2009 06:57 PM                        If you go way back to the top of this thread and look at the original question, to wit: quote: Mike Heenan I think it said 7 of 9 on Thriller were #1 hits). So I wondered, what other group/artist has been able to achieve this? The answer is: None.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-06-2009 11:09 PM                        My definition of "hit" is that it charted on the Billboard Top 100 Pop chart. "Top 40 hit" means that it peaked at a position 40 or higher, and "Top 10 hit" -- peaked at 10 or higher. However, peak position alone is not always an indicator of overall long-run popularity or sales. Let's say an artist has a song that only reached number 5, but was up against four extremely popular, exceptional songs at the time at the 1-4 positions. That song could be way more popular, sell many more copies, and be much more memorable in the long run than a song reaching number 1 at a time when everything on the chart was poor.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-07-2009 02:47 AM                     Example of a song that everyone knows from the 80s... I Melt With You by Modern English. Has been used in commercials as recently as last year. Was it in the top 10 in the US? No. Top 40? No. It peaked at 78 in the Hot 100. Sometimes, a song's position on the charts really mean nothing. Some good songs never chart. Some bad ones soar to the top. (Ring My Bell by Anita Ward)  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-07-2009 02:22 PM                        Some songs get famous even though they don't chart or were never released as a single. Take "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin, their most famous recording. It was never released as a commercial single. "I Melt With You" is a good example of a song that reached more popularity after its release, although it did chart twice, first entering April 2, 1983 and reaching #78, then a rerecording entered on June 23, 1990 reaching #76. I wish I had my British chart book here too. No 80s compilation would be complete without this song. The Cure and Depeche Mode have some well-known, popular songs that were hits in the U.K. before they had any hits in the U.S. My favorites by them are the earlier songs, so the U.S. chart positions mean little to me. I actually love "Ring My Bell" by Anita Ward. (entered May 12, 1979, reached number 1 for 2 weeks).  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-07-2009 03:09 PM                     "All of my love" by Led Zeppelin, released to radio later that same year in a shorter version than on the album In Through The Out Door, was never released as a single. They were never a singles band, really. I got ragged on for liking Heaven Must Have Sent You, by Bonnie Pointer. I recently found the 12" mix in the Itunes store. I tore Lubbock apart looking for the 12 Inch version in 1979, and Flip Side, Hastings and the others did not have it and the ones that did sold it out fast. I also found radio extended versions of Star Wars Theme: Cantina Band by Meco and McArthur Park by Donna Summer, both of which I only heard once on X-ROK 80, a border blaster which in the day played top 40 in Cuidad Juarez. The DJ's spoke in English. 150,000 watts night time. The I-Tunes Store is lacking on some classics material, but when they get it right it's wonderful.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-07-2009 08:33 PM                       A fair number of hits, and they made albums you could play all the way through: Boston. Boston, the soundtrack to my life.  |  IP: Logged Geena Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 198 From: Norcross, GA / USA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 07-20-2009 11:54 PM                        quote: James Westbrook Some bad ones soar to the top. (Ring My Bell by Anita Ward) You shut your filthy mouth! >sobs<  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-21-2009 02:15 AM                     Sorry, Geena. I was in High School when that song was in "heavy rotation" on the radio. What was first cute became annoying on the 10,000th play, like Rupert Holmes' "Escape: The Pina Colada Song". The later song came out later that same year. There was a song by Donna Lewis that came out in the 1996 that had the potential to annoy..."I Love You Always Forever" was the "Ring My Bell" of the 90s. And that song too has it's fans... I am sure someone will show up to defend that one shortly...  |  IP: Logged

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