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Post by freakyflybry on Oct 11, 2015 13:52:59 GMT -5
Don Henley's solo career qualifies here - "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" is his biggest hit outside the Eagles, but it isn't on any of his studio albums - just on his duet partner Patty Smyth's self-titled album.
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Post by robert on Oct 11, 2015 17:02:14 GMT -5
What about Journey's "Only The Young" from "Vision Quest" soundtrack in 1985 and "Crazy For You" and "Into The Groove" by Madonna from that same year, the former being from the same movie as Journey's hit.
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Post by mga707 on Oct 12, 2015 0:04:43 GMT -5
What about Journey's "Only The Young" from "Vision Quest" soundtrack in 1985 and "Crazy For You" and "Into The Groove" by Madonna from that same year, the former being from the same movie as Journey's hit. Neither of those is the respective artist's biggest hit. Based on chart peak/weeks at #1, that honor goes to "Open Arms" and "Like a Virgin", respectively.
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Post by JessieLou on Oct 12, 2015 7:44:21 GMT -5
What about Journey's "Only The Young" from "Vision Quest" soundtrack in 1985 and "Crazy For You" and "Into The Groove" by Madonna from that same year, the former being from the same movie as Journey's hit. Neither of those is the respective artist's biggest hit. Based on chart peak/weeks at #1, that honor goes to "Open Arms" and "Like a Virgin", respectively. "Take A Bow" spent 7 weeks at #1, "Like A Virgin" spent 6.
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Post by robert on Oct 13, 2015 16:15:13 GMT -5
Into The Groove hit #1 on Radio & Records, didn't it?. I know it was not on AT40 as it was not available as a single.
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Post by robert on Oct 13, 2015 16:19:28 GMT -5
The question might be which was Madonna's biggest hit? While "Like A Virgin" spent 6 weeks on top on the Billboard Hot 100, "Crazy For You" became the #1 song of 1985 on Radio & Records chart. But yeah on AT40
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Post by mga707 on Oct 13, 2015 19:21:11 GMT -5
The question might be which was Madonna's biggest hit? While "Like A Virgin" spent 6 weeks on top on the Billboard Hot 100, "Crazy For You" became the #1 song of 1985 on Radio & Records chart. But yeah on AT40 The problem with year-end rankings is that chart years have to start and end at some point or other. Songs released near the end of a year have an inherent disadvantage in year-end rankings.
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Post by mct1 on Oct 13, 2015 20:17:08 GMT -5
OMD's biggest hit, "If You Leave", was from the "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack. The Beatles' biggest hit was "Hey Jude", which did not appear on any of their studio albums. RE: OMD - Funny thing is, I was just reading about Pretty in Pink yesterday. Apparently the group had a song all ready to go for the movie until its ending got changed. They were due to head out on tour in days..."If You Leave" was subsequently written in less than 24 hours. "Goddess of Love", the song originally intended, turned up on their following album (that also had "Forever (Live and Die)"). The movie was actually filmed to completion with the original ending, which had Andie wind up with Duckie rather than with Blaine. But the studio ordered the ending re-done when test audiences' reaction to the movie was along the lines of "We loved the movie until we got to the ending. The ending, where Andie doesn't get the guy she wants and ends up stuck with Duckie, completely ruined the movie for us. Andie's dream is shattered, and she's forced to settle." When the original ending was filmed, Molly Ringwald had a bad cold, and never liked the way she looked, so in a way she was glad to go back and get the chance to shoot the scene again. Andrew McCarthy, meanwhile, had moved on to a stage production in which his character was in the military. As a result, he had gotten a crew cut, and now had a very different appearance from how he had looked when the original ending was filmed. In the re-done ending (what ended up in the released movie), he had to wear a wig. A paperback novelization of the move was released. It followed the film's original ending, and was never updated to reflect the revised ending. Fans of the movie speaking to Jon Cryer would sometimes mention this, thinking that the person who did the novel deliberately decided to make the ending different to make a better outcome for Duckie, not realizing that the movie was originally supposed to be that way. RE: Hey Jude - I had to double check that one; that's not one I ever would have guessed. In the 1960s U.K., it was very common for an artist's singles to not be on their albums. The majority of the Beatles' British singles were not on their original British studio albums, with most of the exceptions being songs used in their feature films. In the early part of the band's career, their U.S. label Capitol Records included most of their singles on its albums, which were extensively reworked compared to the U.K. versions. Starting around 1966, however, the American albums began to follow the British albums more closely, and many of the group's singles didn't immediately appear on a studio album, since they weren't on the British albums. Most of the tracks on Hey Jude were singles that hadn't previously appeared on an album, with some even older than the title track ("Paperback Writer", from 1966, and "Lady Madonna", from early 1968). The American Yesterday And Today and Magical Mystery Tour albums also to some degree complied singles that hadn't previously appeared on an album, although in those cases all of the singles were less than a year old.
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Post by reachinforthestars on Oct 14, 2015 1:28:55 GMT -5
....or not available on an album by that artist around the time of or within even a few months of its release. By that definition, Elton would qualify as "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" was not on any of his albums until his second greatest hits Lp came out well over a year later. Said Lp also included a couple other #1 hits which were not available on any previous album either...."Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Philadelphia Freedom". Based on the premise of this thread, I would guess Elton is the grand champion because "Candle In The Wind 1997" is considered the biggest selling single in history (outside of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas") and I don't recall it being placed on an album.
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Post by keithr63 on Oct 17, 2015 9:48:33 GMT -5
*throws up hands* Why don't we just say biggest hits that were stand-alone singles only and be done with it? Sheesh... See the original idea behind this post was the biggest of an artists career, but if you bought their current album, it wasn't on there. I wasn't going for single releases only. Years ago Tom Petty commented that not only did "Stop Dragging" not appear on his then current album, "Hard Promises", the song also killed off his then current single, "Woman In Love". "Stop Dragging" was also a throwaway track from "Hard Promises", which made it all the more bittersweet. Incidentally "Stop Dragging Me Heart Around" was just a Petty and the Heartbreakers track, Tom felt the song just sat there. He was asked to give a track for Stevie's solo album, so he gave her the track. All they did was dub Stevie and her background singers onto the existing Petty track. Suddenly the song came alive. The original demo version with just Tom and the Heartbreakers was included on his Playback box set
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Post by skuncle on Oct 17, 2015 12:20:51 GMT -5
Yes, what's odd if footage exists of Stevie and Tom in the studio working on the song. But in the end all they did was take Toms demo and add Stevie and the girls to it. I'm guessing the studio time was done so Stevie could get a feel for how she should harmonize with him. The Heartbreakers appear on other tracks on Stevie's album though, so maybe since they were there they just played around with it.
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Post by freakyflybry on Sept 15, 2019 12:35:46 GMT -5
From an AT40/CT40 perspective, Garth Brooks counts. His only appearance on the top 40 on either chart was with his cover of KISS's "Hard Luck Woman" - from a KISS tribute album, and not any of his own albums.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Sept 15, 2019 18:56:27 GMT -5
See the original idea behind this post was the biggest of an artists career, but if you bought their current album, it wasn't on there. I wasn't going for single releases only. Not sure if this one fits... Among Billboard's Top 10 songs in May 1969 was "Hair" by the Cowsills. That turned out to be their biggest hit single. The group released an album that same month -- "The Cowsills In Concert" -- which contained the song "Hair" recorded live. ("Hair" had not been released on a Cowsills album prior to this.) Of course, their hit single was a studio version. And that didn't become available on a Cowsills album until 1971 when a greatest hits compilation was released. So if you bought "The Cowsills In Concert" LP in 1969, you had a recording of the group's "Hair," but not the hit that was being played on the radio.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 18, 2019 16:12:21 GMT -5
My late wife had the cassette single of "Candle In The Wind 1997" with "Something About The Way You Look Tonight" which appeared on Elton John's then current album.
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Post by mrjukebox on Sept 18, 2019 16:15:01 GMT -5
The name of that album was "The Big Picture".
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