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Post by giannirubino on May 8, 2022 17:48:06 GMT -5
No love for Maxine Nightingale?
#2 1976 Right Back Where We Started From
#5 1979 Lead Me On
I think I am going to do some sleuthing ... I really want to know who earns the title of most successful 2-hit-wonder. I am wondering if Extreme will take the crown.
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Post by mga707 on May 8, 2022 18:29:32 GMT -5
No love for Maxine Nightingale? #2 1976 Right Back Where We Started From #5 1979 Lead Me On I think I am going to do some sleuthing ... I really want to know who earns the title of most successful 2-hit-wonder. I am wondering if Extreme will take the crown. Extreme had a #1 and a #4. Silver Convention had a #1 and a #2. Don't think anyone beats that. |
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Post by giannirubino on May 8, 2022 19:05:32 GMT -5
I'm counting up all the points earned using the standard 1 point for a week at #100 to 100 points for a week at #1. I need to keep checking my math, but, so far ...
3233 Extreme
2998 Maxine Nightingale
2786 Silver Convention
2717 Jesus Jones
2597 Tara Kemp
2545 a-ha
Edited to add: I'll check a few others tomorrow and add them as my fingers and neurons allow.
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Post by chrislc on May 8, 2022 19:37:18 GMT -5
Here are a pair of artists that cover the 70s, 80s and 90s between them.... Silver Convention..."Fly Robin Fly" (#1), "Get Up and Boogie" (#2) Will to Power......""Baby I Love Your Way/Free Bird" (#1), "I'm Not in Love" (#4 CT40, #7 AT40) And Extreme..."More Than Words" (#1), Hole Hearted (#4) BOOM Silver Convention was my first thought when seeing this thread title. I actually bought that LP before Get Up And Boogie came out. |
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Post by doofus67 on May 8, 2022 19:47:28 GMT -5
I'm counting up all the points earned using the standard 1 point for a week at #100 to 100 points for a week at #1. Ah, the Reverse Rank method, as Bill Carroll calls it. Bill compiles the "Ranking" books used by SXM for the '60s Satellite Survey (and me for my Fantasy charts). It's simple and easy to use, but it rewards longevity more than performance. For example, a song can earn roughly the same number of points by spending three weeks at #67 as it would for one week at #1. Bill's method is based on something like a parabolic curve. I'll run these artists' numbers through his formula and see what happens. I'll cover 1958 to 1991. We can compare rankings. Of the examples we've posted so far, Silver Convention ought to end up on top. But we shall see. |
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Post by Rodney on May 8, 2022 20:59:54 GMT -5
My personal favorites would be Tone-Loc and Climax Blues Band
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Post by LC on May 8, 2022 21:25:11 GMT -5
Not the biggest, but there's Tracy Chapman. Fast Car (#6) & Give Me One Reason (#3)
I guess we can give special mention to the Contours and Benny Mardones for being one-hit wonders twice....
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Post by woolebull on May 8, 2022 21:46:39 GMT -5
I'm counting up all the points earned using the standard 1 point for a week at #100 to 100 points for a week at #1. I need to keep checking my math, but, so far ... 3233 Extreme 2998 Maxine Nightingale 2786 Silver Convention 2717 Jesus Jones 2597 Tara Kemp 2545 a-ha Edited to add: I'll check a few others tomorrow and add them as my fingers and neurons allow. Throw Vanilla Ice in the mix: #1 Ice Ice Baby #4 Play That Funky Music |
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Post by johnnywest on May 8, 2022 21:48:05 GMT -5
Kiiara with “Gold” and “Heavy.”
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Post by woolebull on May 8, 2022 22:02:30 GMT -5
Just heard the second song on the show playing so... Tara Kemp..."Hold You Tight" (#3) and "Piece of My Heart" (#7) Tara Kemp might be the most underrated two hit wonder ever. Those two jams were straight fire in 91 and hold up amazingly well in 2022. |
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Post by woolebull on May 8, 2022 22:05:31 GMT -5
Not the biggest, but there's Tracy Chapman. Fast Car (#6) & Give Me One Reason (#3) I guess we can give special mention to the Contours and Benny Mardones for being one-hit wonders twice.... It is mixing and matching but from a CHR standpoint Chapman has a #6 and #1, which puts her in the conversation. |
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Post by woolebull on May 8, 2022 22:19:19 GMT -5
No love for Maxine Nightingale? #2 1976 Right Back Where We Started From #5 1979 Lead Me On I think I am going to do some sleuthing ... I really want to know who earns the title of most successful 2-hit-wonder. I am wondering if Extreme will take the crown. Extreme had a #1 and a #4. Silver Convention had a #1 and a #2. Don't think anyone beats that. I mean A Taste Of Honey and Vanilla Ice "gotta got to" be in the conversation as well. (Quoted line props out to Ice). |
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Post by woolebull on May 8, 2022 22:33:02 GMT -5
One more thing for tonight: Two of the acts that had the longest spaces of time between their first AT 40 hit and their second only have had two hits. So love out to Murray Head and Enya. And also to Exile going "first to worst" with their two hits, as well as the amazing, incomparable Timmy T going "worst to first" with his two hits.
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Post by dth1971 on May 9, 2022 6:13:14 GMT -5
One more thing for tonight: Two of the acts that had the longest spaces of time between their first AT 40 hit and their second only have had two hits. So love out to Murray Head and Enya. And also to Exile going "first to worst" with their two hits, as well as the amazing, incomparable Timmy T going "worst to first" with his two hits. Another "worst to first" artist with two AT40 hits is Tommy Page. |
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Post by at40nut on May 9, 2022 6:53:23 GMT -5
One more thing for tonight: Two of the acts that had the longest spaces of time between their first AT 40 hit and their second only have had two hits. So love out to Murray Head and Enya. And also to Exile going "first to worst" with their two hits, as well as the amazing, incomparable Timmy T going "worst to first" with his two hits. Another "worst to first" artist with two AT40 hits is Tommy Page. Another "worst to first" was C.W. McCall with "Wolf Creek Pass" and "Convoy" |
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