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"How was that their highest charting single?"

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  • #212
    its_steve116
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    The Trammps are easily best known for their 1977 disco hit "Disco Inferno", but believe it or not it never made the UK top 10! It only peaked at #16.









    The band outcharted it with the less well-known "Hold Back the Night", which reached #5 in 1975.


  • #213
    Welsh Megaman
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    Alvin Stardust will forever be remembered for the classic ‘My Coo Ca Choo’... :cool:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZqNBd_orI



    Yet it only reached number two in the UK singles chart. His follow-up single that NOBODY remembers, ‘Jealous Mind’, hit the top spot!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4q3Cy8X6Mo


  • #214
    Declan A Walsh
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Alvin Stardust will forever be remembered for the classic ‘My Coo Ca Choo’... :cool:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZqNBd_orI



    Yet it only reached number two in the UK singles chart. His follow-up single that NOBODY remembers, ‘Jealous Mind’, hit the top spot!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4q3Cy8X6Mo

    I mentioned that in Post 9 back in 2018!
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  • #215
    BOSTIK
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    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it


  • #216
    its_steve116
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    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it

    I've heard it on Non Stop 90s.


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  • #217
    loyatemu
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    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it

    in fairness "Fairytale" is a Pogues record that features Kirsty MacColl rather than a full collaboration.

    MacColl's own biggest hit was "A New England" which is pretty well known, but for some reason I though her cover of "Days" had done better.

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  • #218
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    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it
    its_steve116 wrote: »
    I've heard it on Non Stop 90s.

    I included it on Part 1 of my More Forgotten '90s series


  • #219
    gabria
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    Betty Boo's Doin' the Do reached no 7 in summer 1990. That was outcharted by the less remembered follow up single Where are you baby which reached no 3. she never made the top ten after that


  • #220
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    All I Really Want to know is what's the highest charting UK hit from Jagged Little Pill?

    You Oughta Know it's not Ironic

    Or Hand In My Pocket

    You'll Learn it's this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuO49jbovg


  • #221
    gabria
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    All I Really Want to know is what's the highest charting UK hit from Jagged Little Pill?

    You Oughta Know it's not Ironic

    Or Hand In My Pocket

    You'll Learn it's this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuO49jbovg


    Yeah that's a pretty unremarkable song. Her highest charting song in UK overall is Thank You from the next album in 1998. If it weren't for the video of nekkid Alanis I'd say people would be asking why it got to no 5


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  • #222
    its_steve116
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    You knew it was 2011 when Royseven's "We Should Be Lovers" was everywhere. The recently reformed Dublin six-piece had the most played song by an Irish artist on the radio that year. But this wasn't reflected in its chart position - it only reached #16.


    The band outcharted it by TEN positions, for two weeks no less, in September of 2006, with the almost completely forgotten track, "Older".


  • #223
    El Tarangu
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    On the phone, so can't double-check to see if it's been posted already, but I learned today that Neil Diamond had ten #1 singles in the US - none of which were 'Sweet Caroline', which only made it to #4


  • #224
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Ha watched Alan partridge last night “you can keep your Jesus here’s the real king of the Jews Neil diamond”


  • #225
    its_steve116
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    El Tarangu wrote: »
    On the phone, so can't double-check to see if it's been posted already, but I learned today that Neil Diamond had ten #1 singles in the US - none of which were 'Sweet Caroline', which only made it to #4

    Just looked it up, he only had 3.


  • #226
    El Tarangu
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    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Just looked it up, he only had 3.

    Cheers - i came across it on a podcast, so perhaps they were just using a figurative 'ten'.


  • #227
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    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.


  • #228
    its_steve116
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.

    That's interesting.


  • #229
    its_steve116
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    British industrial band Nitzer Ebb had a few songs in the lower reaches of the UK charts, but their signature "Join In the Chant" never charted there at all.
    Their three top 75 hits are "Ascend", "Godhead" and "Kick It", peaking at #52, #56 and #75 respectively.


  • #230
    Declan A Walsh
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    U2, from a relatively early stage in their career, had plenty of hits in Ireland - the big fish in a small pond syndrome! Their first Number 1 single in Ireland was The Unforgettable Fire in 1985. The Joshua Tree album was of course a major breakthrough for them worldwide, spawning two Number 1 singles in the US.

    Like Ireland, in the UK, U2 had a number of hits before that breakthrough album. What is a surprise is that Desire in 1988 was their first Number One single in the UK.

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  • #231
    its_steve116
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    Portishead's "Sour Times" is the only US top 100 single by the band, outperforming their most famous song "Glory Box". In the UK, "All Mine" was their only top 10, reaching #8.


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  • #232
    its_steve116
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    Ultravox had just one entry on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was not "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", which only bubbled under at #108, or "Vienna", which didn't chart at all in the US. Instead, it was the forgotten "Reap The Wild Wind"(#71). Averted by the former two songs in their native UK, where they were both Top 10 hits.


  • #233
    Declan A Walsh
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    The original most-played version of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers stalled in the UK Charts at Number 11 in 1988. Their first hit single was Letter from America which reached Number 3. Another of their singles, King of The Road, reached Number 9. It wasn't until they re-recorded I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comic Relief in 2007 that it actually reached Number 1, but it's still the original version that gets the most play.

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  • #234
    its_steve116
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    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    The original most-played version of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers stalled in the UK Charts at Number 11 in 1988. Their first hit single was Letter from America which reached Number 3. Another of their singles, King of The Road, reached Number 9. It wasn't until they re-recorded I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comic Relief in 2007 that it actually reached Number 1, but it's still the original version that gets the most play.

    Never knew that!


  • #235
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    In this winter 1988 face-off, you had (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles on Now 13 and Sunshine On Leith on Hits 9.


  • #236
    dark crystal
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.

    I never knew 'Older' did so much better than 'Listen Without Prejudice' - an album I must have played every day for a year :o LWP is far superior, imo.

    I guess it had to do with being quite far removed from his previous album 'Faith' which had a much more commercial pop edge to it.


  • #237
    its_steve116
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    Stiff Little Fingers had 3 UK top 40 singles - but none of these were "Alternative Ulster" or "Suspect Device". Their only top 20 hit was the #15 "At the Edge".

    "Just Fade Away", which never reached the top 40, was in the charts for longer than "Nobody's Hero", which did reach the top 40.



  • #238
    breezy1985
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626169#Comment_117626169

    No surprise really. Most people in the UK dont realize Ulster is in the UK and would not understand the language of the troubles so wouldn't get the double entendres of Suspect Device



  • #239
    Rikand
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    Manic Street Preachers have, according to wikipedia, the record for most top 40 songs in the UK with 34. However, they have only had 2 number 1s

    Some of their big radio play songs didnt get there like Motorcyle Emptiness(#17), A Design of Life(#2), Kevin Carter(#9), Australia(#7), Everything must go(#5), You Stole the sun from my heart(#5), Tsunami(#11) or Your love alone is not enough(#2).


    The number ones were "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" (fair enough) and "Masses against the classes" (instantly forgotten)



  • #240
    breezy1985
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626253#Comment_117626253

    2 great songs and really surprised they were number ones as they would be pretty political and not the most pop friendly. If I had to guess I would have said Your Love Alone and Everything Must go or maybe Design for Life


    No way in hell Masses is instantly forgotten either



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  • #241
    Rikand
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626293#Comment_117626293

    I more meant in terms of radio play. Once Masses was no longer in the charts it was never heard from again. That was definitely the point being made about other bands earlier in the threads. Maybe I dont listen to the same radio stations you do ?



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