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Post by reachinforthestars on Mar 19, 2011 14:14:54 GMT -5
Just looked to verify. He tied his sister because Hold My Hand with Akon charted for one week at 39 recently. They both now have 39. You also have to realize that from 95 to 08 she had 12 or 13 hits when he only had one, that helped her catch up. As for my knowledge. It goes back to the 60's too, I amaze myself sometimes. Michael Jackson rarely released singles and rarely released albums of original material from 1996 - 2008, while Janet released many. Michael's legacy was also tied to being the lead singer of the Jackson Five/Jacksons, which you did not include in his totals. Janet has no other history in the Top 40. So to say Janet had more Top 40 singles than Michael should have a major asterisk beside it because it does represent the entire story of their careers.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Mar 19, 2011 14:37:01 GMT -5
Abba at number 1 with Dancing Queen . I'm curious what was amazing about this? It didn't jump to #1 in dramatic fashion. It only stayed at#1 for one week. Why would this be any more amazing than any artist who reached #1 for the first time?
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 19, 2011 15:57:16 GMT -5
Maybe amazing that it was the only number one they had for as important as they seem to be and as popular they seem to be...
As for Michael and Janet, Together and apart are seperate in my opinion. Who cares, yeah its nice, but then you have to give amazing amounts of credit for Beatles and their solo careers.
Plus of course I didn't figure in things like Somebody's Watching Me which he was uncredited on...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 16:02:01 GMT -5
That is right, an only number 1 for a group that has 9 number ones in the UK charts, for example. Talking about ABBA, and besides, I am an huge fan, the reason I lernt English, love music, bought radio and sound systems is ABBA.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Mar 19, 2011 17:26:16 GMT -5
As for Michael and Janet, Together and apart are seperate in my opinion. Who cares, yeah its nice, but then you have to give amazing amounts of credit for Beatles and their solo careers. And why wouldn't you give an amazing amount of credit for Beatles and their solo careers when you look at their success in music? Using your Janet & Michael logic, then why not just state how Donny Osmond had more Top 40 hits than John Lennon. Sounds more amazing. But it doesn't tell the whole story now, does it?
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Post by reachinforthestars on Mar 19, 2011 17:30:43 GMT -5
That is right, an only number 1 for a group that has 9 number ones in the UK charts, for example. Wouldn't the Cliff Richard story be more amazing then? He had 18 number one singles in the UK, but none in the USA.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 19, 2011 17:38:24 GMT -5
This is slightly off the point of this thread but I am amzed that after hitting #1 with their first 4 singles, the Jackson 5 never hit #1 again. That is despite releasing singles consistently for 15 years and having Michael in the group during all that time. To top it off, in a year where every Tom, Dick and Harry hit #1 and hardly anyone got stopped at #2, 1974, they did just that with "Dancing Machine". Amazing in bad way.
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Post by tarobe on Mar 19, 2011 22:19:44 GMT -5
Another oddball feat was in Diana Ross. During the seventies, either she hit #1, or she didn't hit the Top 10 at all.
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Post by jgve1952 on Mar 22, 2011 0:13:01 GMT -5
June 30, 1979--the top 5 was all female acts: Rickie Lee Jones at #5, Sister Sledge at #4, Donna Summer at #'s 3 AND 2, and Anita Ward at #1. Does anyone know if that ever happened again--in the "download" error Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga and some other females may have broken the record...but I am not a "new music" guru :-(
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Post by freakyflybry on Mar 22, 2011 0:52:25 GMT -5
June 30, 1979--the top 5 was all female acts: Rickie Lee Jones at #5, Sister Sledge at #4, Donna Summer at #'s 3 AND 2, and Anita Ward at #1. Does anyone know if that ever happened again--in the "download" error Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga and some other females may have broken the record...but I am not a "new music" guru :-(There was a week in early 1997 where the entire top 10 was by either solo females or female-led bands!
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Post by bigal on Mar 22, 2011 3:07:03 GMT -5
SUNNY DAYS by Lighthouse. Cant think of any other chart action where a song decends at the same position at when it ascended. 38-36-34-36-38. (:
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 22, 2011 15:09:30 GMT -5
That was cool when the top 5 was all female artists. That said, how about the week of 9/23/72. In the entire top 40, there was only 1 female person of any kind and that was Sister Rose along side the Cornelius Bros at #38.
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Post by albe on Mar 27, 2011 8:26:22 GMT -5
Elton John's amazing top 40 chart run from 1970 - 1995. He had a top forty bound song debut on the HOT 100 each year....starting with "Your Song" in 1970 and ending with "Blessed" in 1995.
Had it not been for songs that didn't hit the top forty in 1996, 1998 & 2000..he could have debut on the HOT 100 with AT40 headed song for 3 consecutive decades.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Mar 27, 2011 14:42:09 GMT -5
Well, to be fair, Blessed was still on the charts in 1996 and The Diana Candle In The Wind was still on in 1998. Say what you will but for me that counts.
The first year was 2000 but by then music finished it's nose dive to the dredge we have now and WORSE! I doubt Elton could EVER chart again, at least not in the USA.
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Post by PapaVanTwee on Mar 30, 2011 15:10:31 GMT -5
Olivia Newton-John's 12+ year run with a top 40 hit for a woman is also pretty big. Casey was talking about it in last week's show. Anybody know if she extended that record beyond '84, and if anyone has beaten it?
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