Performers That Never Had a Number One Hit

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by RustyShackleford
I dont think Lynyrd Skynyrd had any number ones, or John Cougar Mellencamp

Mellencamp did have one #1 with Jack And Diane

[¤I Love Clay Aiken¤]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
not yet mentioned

R.E.M.
Metallica
James Brown (holds the record of most chart hits without a number one single on the hot 100, he has over 100 singles)
Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Rush
Sade
Pat Benatar

Wow.

[Elvis Fonzie Dean]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
not yet mentioned

R.E.M.
Metallica
James Brown (holds the record of most chart hits without a number one single on the hot 100, he has over 100 singles)
Ozzy Osbourne/Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Rush
Sade
Pat Benatar

Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" didn't go to #1?That's surprising.I wonder what sold more.

[~*Dailey'sGurl*~]

Originally posted by BravesFan712002
On the pop charts, Brenda Lee had 2 number 1 pop hits, "I'm Sorry" in 1960 and "I Want To Be Wanted" in 1961.

Also Ray Stevens had 2 number 1 pop hits as well, "Everything Is Beautiful" in 1970 and "The Streak" in 1974.

Oh...
This was from a COUNTRY magazine

[~*Dailey'sGurl*~]

Originally posted by HuntingtonM15
That is just very wrong.

Its what I read... I've never heard any of Suzy's music, that I know of.... also I did put yet I put that because I know some of those people are still involved in music.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by DLQSfan
Oh...
This was from a COUNTRY magazine

true but if a country artist scores a #1 POP hit, doesn't that negate it all? since it's more dificult for a country artist to top the Hot 100 than it is the country charts.

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by Elvis Fonzie Dean
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" didn't go to #1?That's surprising.I wonder what sold more.

Smells Like Teen Spirit peaked at #6 on Billboard's Hot 100.

[Elvis Fonzie Dean]

Originally posted by vashti1999
Smells Like Teen Spirit peaked at #6 on Billboard's Hot 100.

That's odd.

[~*Hannah_Lee*~]

Originally posted by Elvis Fonzie Dean
That's odd.

yeah, I think Nevermind, or maybe In Utero made it to number 1 on the album charts, but none of the songs ever did.

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally posted by DLQSfan
Its what I read... I've never heard any of Suzy's music, that I know of.... also I did put yet I put that because I know some of those people are still involved in music.

I didn't mean that your information was wrong. I meant that it's wrong that she hasn't had a #1 yet. So many of her songs are #1 quality. Oh well, with the way country radio works today, it won't ever happen.

[Penny Lane]

Ok, I just have to toss this in here!


In 1964 The Beatles had 6 #1 hits(amazing!) and 2 # 1 albums and about 20 top 100 hits! Plus 1 movie and 1 book.Also they had the highest viewing audience on t v at the time. Not bad for 1 year!

And some people here dare to say that they are overrated!

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Ok, I just have to toss this in here!


In 1964 The Beatles had 6 #1 hits(amazing!) and 2 # 1 albums and about 20 top 100 hits! Plus 1 movie and 1 book.Also they had the highest viewing audience on t v at the time. Not bad for 1 year!

And some people here dare to say that they are overrated!

well, it could be a generational thing. I like the Beatles, but I don't think they were the greatest thing ever (however, I wasn't even born when they broke up and am more familiar growing up with the solo recordings). Most of the people who say the Beatles are overrated (as well as those who say the same about Elvis) are younger and the impact had already been made, so they can't remember exactly how much they shook the music world up when they came out.

Hell, this happens for all generations, I see lots of todays teens who are "what is the big fuss about Nirvana" when that was all but a decade ago.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Elvis Fonzie Dean
Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" didn't go to #1?That's surprising.I wonder what sold more.

when SLTS was top 10, "classics" like Right Said Fred "I'm Too Sexy" and Color Me Badd's "All For Love" was up there, and I think MJ's Black Or White was still at #1 when it first entered the top 10.

As someone posted on another thread, SLTS was a hit, but history was rewritten on April 8, 1994 (it happened April 5, but 8 was when the news broke out) to where people thought SLTS was comparable to the Beatles' first US hit. The song was certainly a hit song, and so was the album, but after Cobain's death, the song took on a whole life on it's own and became treated as more than a mere "early 90's rock hit".

[Jenya]

I don't think The Moody Blues ever had a #1 hit in the US. I don't know about other countries though.

[~*Dailey'sGurl*~]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
true but if a country artist scores a #1 POP hit, doesn't that negate it all? since it's more dificult for a country artist to top the Hot 100 than it is the country charts.

Oh well, I just typed WHAT WAS IN THE MAGAZINE.