Ontd Original: Famous Artist and Songs that never got to number one on the Billboard top 100 chart

[jemgirl90]

-Bruce Springsteen collected a dozen top 10 hits, but the closest to number one he got was for " Dancing in he Dark" which spent 4 weeks at number 2."When Doves Cry" kept him out of the spot.

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[ellaellaeheheh]

I WANT IT THAT WAY? Really? One of the greatest pop songs of all time? I can't believe it. honestly, this is the billboard charts loss.

seems like it used to be harder to get #1s?

[ghettoluvpr]

It used to be an ACTUAL accomplishment. Now anyone can get one. Which makes it even sadder that some people, who truly deserve it, don’t have one.

[colossusx]

i tried to tell people on here that getting a number one on billboard is SO much easier now and they tried to argue me down. you had to WORK to be #1 before, it wasn't all this streaming and youtube and bundle shit.

[dynamite_guy]

I do think it’s easier now. But there were always ways to game the system to hit number one. But it typically didn’t result in songs that were not truly hits reaching #1 and falling directly into obscurity.

[lloyd_llewellyn]

Reading this I’m shocked that Born In The USA and Can’t Touch This never got nowhere near number 1. Those two songs defined that era.

[sonorous_spirit]

it's always funny to go back through the charts and see like, artists that are still around today languishing in the top 10/50/100 and then a complete one hit wonder or flash in the pan group are at #1.

i live in the uk where a lot of our historic chart #1s have been novelty songs, to put it lightly.

amazing grace on the bagpipes, played by the royal scots dragoon guard? here u go! number one in april 1972.

a weird comedy song about a milkman fighting for the hand of the lovely sue, who eventually dies when the local baker (who is his romantic rival) throws a stale pork pie at his head? number one in december 1971.

it's gotten better over the decades but. i still cannot fathom why we sometimes get these weird novelty songs still sometimes

[giuliettamasina]

idk why but this just reminded me of that huge campaign in 2009 that got Rage Against the Machine to #1 for Christmas to freeze out someone from the X-Factor lmao

[sonorous_spirit]

lol yeah! tbh it was like, 5 or 6 years where the x-factor would ALWAYS be number one at christmas and people were rightly sick of it.

just a shame that ratm belonged to the same record label that would also profit off of the people who won the x-factor that year, lol

[hellojeds]

Watching old Top of the Pops is such a trip. Everyone complains about "music today isn't what it used to be" but there's always been complete dross in the charts, you just forget about the rubbish stuff!

[devopet]

Bruce Springsteen writing Fire is blowing my mind! I also wonder how the cover from Babyface did?

[yousaidlog]

There's a live version of Fire where Bruce is so delicious omg

[cbluechicken]

Nicki has A LOT of issues but in terms of her music specifically, people forget that she was competing with pop girls and white people after a long ass drought of female rap. She definitely rode the train of EDM and pop to get hits but having a black woman top the charts that wasn't named Rihanna was few and far between. I imagine if she released theses songs as a new artist she would be more likely to get a number one. If anything her legacy will be that she helped commercialize female rap to an even more global platform, whether people want to admit it or not. So seeing her collab with a pedo to get a #1 is like, why?

That being said, I hate how much getting #1 is pushed for stan bragging rights. So many of my favorite songs never saw the top 10, let alone #1. Britney is a classic example. She's legendary but her second number one didn't come until 2008. All those iconic singles like Slave 4 U and Toxic went #27 and #9 respectively.

[ellehcimbelle]

i will never get over learning Toxic never went number one. i honestly think it is the greatest song of all time, not just the greatest pop song. like NINTH!?! pleaseeee

[cbluechicken]

and at the time it was seen as a true comeback for her seeing how her last era didn't chart that well with singles and people started questioning her longevity. Times have really changed bc peaking at #9 now would be seen as a flop for today's pop stars.

[trendsnational]

Wasnt Britney blacklisted from Clear Channel thats why they never played her.