You say this without noting the fact that Tom's DEBUT movie also spawned a #1 hit. It's like he was spawning chart-toppers before people even knew who he was!
And yet "It's in the Way That You Use It" didn't chart at all.
Given the glam metal (or glam-adjacent) bands in the previous and next columns, have you mentioned yet that they actually, somehow, did WORSE on the rock charts than the Hot 100?
The only ones to actually top the charts from the genre's heyday in 1986 to 1990 were Bon Jovi (with "Livin' on a Prayer," only one of their four #1 Hot 100 hits) and its frontman Jon (who will reach #1 with his only solo Hot 100 #1).
I guess the reason was that rock radio listeners were too attracted to retro-leaning people like Winwood and Palmer to really care.
When I browsed this article on mobile, an ad came at the end saying "Remember Nancy Sinatra? Here's how she looks at 80." I desperately wanted to share the ad with you all, so I tried to take a picture of it, but the ad disappeared just as I was taking it! A shame because it was such a hilarious end to the article.
I live ~40 miles from Disneyland and despite it reopening two weeks ago there's no way I'm going in the foreseeable future because I barely even go out of the house anymore. Hence why I'm playing a virtual facsimile instead.
Been playing Disney Magic Kingdoms on my phone. It's a "create your own Disney park" sim, with a lot of attractions not in the real parks (like Finkelstein's tower from Nightmare Before Christmas) and some very strange omissions (Jungle Cruise isn't in the game at all). It's thankfully light on the "pay-to-win" bullshit that infects so many other mobile games - I paid $2 this week and $0 last week and I still got a lot done. The most recent character I welcomed was Darth Vader on Wednesday.
hey Legeis, last month you said you wanted a list of signature songs. so a few weeks ago I came up with a list of 50 superstar acts from the Number Ones era so far (60s-80s) and tried to guess what their signature songs would be. i never had the time or the desire to post it until now. because a lot of people on my original post said that many artists had more than 1 signature song, I listed at least 3 for each artist. 5 really massive acts (elton john, michael jackson, pink floyd, queen, rolling stones) have 5 songs listed, and today's subject george michael has 4 because it's unfair that his most popular song is a christmas songs. also listed chart peaks for each song and the artist's highest charting hit.
link below. enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://imgur.com/a/qAopdCw
I don't like "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" that much because the religious elements turn me off as an atheist, but "I Get Weak" is phenomenal. I also utterly love the other Diane Warren track on the album, "World Without You."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUe5Cn2-mho
"Jolene" is one of those rare cases where the single didn't chart very well (it went to #60 in 1974), and yet, due to the massive success of the artist otherwise, its popularity has grown exponentially to the point where it might be their most popular song today.
I think David Bowie might be the extreme of this. He had 2 US #1's, "Fame" and "Let's Dance." And yet his most-played song today on American classic rock radio (and probably most beloved today as well, as Perks of Being a Wallflower showed) is "Heroes," which didn't even chart on the Hot 100 upon its release as a single in 1977.
Similarly, there's a Simply Red #1 we'll get to in 2 virtual years that's a cover of a Philly soul act's highest-charting song. Not only has the cover completely eclipsed the original's popularity today, it's probably also the song most closely associated with Simply Red now.
It reads like a fairy tale. That opening line just screams Cinderella. And not because Whitney played the Fairy Godmother in a TV movie version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.
(While I was typing this, my phone autocorrected "Rodgers" to "Dodgers." Must be because I live in LA.)
You're dead-on about Billy and Kenny, but I'm not really sure about the others. I think the charts got Mac right in hindsight: their sole chart-topper "Dreams" is also their signature song, and the meme from last year only solidified its status.
Let's talk "signature songs," the songs that come immediately to mind whenever you think of an artist. I've wanted to make a post on this topic for a long time, since Three Dog Night were in this column. I thought about how that band had a good number of hits that are largely forgotten today, but the song most people associate with them now, "Joy to the World," did actually reach #1.
Several artists we've discussed haven't been as lucky. Madonna has been in this column several times, and will be there several more times in the future, but "Material Girl" isn't one of her chart-toppers. We've seen a whole lot of Elton John songs, but "Rocket Man" wasn't among them. Queen had two #1's and neither of them were "Bohemian Rhapsody." Earth, Wind, & Fire's sole song to reach the top was not "September" but "Shining Star." The list goes on.
So it's kind of a relief to know that "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," Whitney Houston's most iconic song today - yes, even more than the 14-weeker mammoth we'll get to in 1992 - was one of her 10 #1's.
1. Stay (Faraway, So Close)
2. Until the End of the World
3. Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of
4. Seconds
5. All I Want Is You
Can you tell I like Wim Wenders?
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