Albums with the most singles or no singles at all

[jamesanthony]

As far as I am aware Michael Jackson's Bad had the most:

I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad
Way You Make Me Feel
Man in the Mirror
Dirty Diana
Another Part of Me
Smooth Criminal
Leave Me Alone
another whose title I forget but was dedicated to Ryan White and AIDS research.

That's 9 commercial singles. The first 7 were all big hits.

As for albums with no singles there have been quite a few in recent years, but I don't think the Beatles' Sgt Pepper had any singles off of it.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
As far as I am aware Michael Jackson's Bad had the most:

I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Bad
Way You Make Me Feel
Man in the Mirror
Dirty Diana
Another Part of Me
Smooth Criminal
Leave Me Alone
another whose title I forget but was dedicated to Ryan White and AIDS research.

That's 9 commercial singles. The first 7 were all big hits.

As for albums with no singles there have been quite a few in recent years, but I don't think the Beatles' Sgt Pepper had any singles off of it.

the Ryan White song, "Gone Too Soon" was from Dangerous.

[dlemond]

I'm pretty sure that "Thriller" had bigger hits than "Bad"- in terms of weeks and ranking.

A lot 80's albums milked themselves with singles- think about Huey Lewis "Sports" Def Leppard "Pyromania" The Cars "Heartbeat City."

There are dozens, all I remember about the 80s music scene is that they always tried to release as many singles from an album as they could- no matter how bad the song was.

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by dlemond
I'm pretty sure that "Thriller" had bigger hits than "Bad"- in terms of weeks and ranking.

A lot 80's albums milked themselves with singles- think about Huey Lewis "Sports" Def Leppard "Pyromania" The Cars "Heartbeat City."

There are dozens, all I remember about the 80s music scene is that they always tried to release as many singles from an album as they could- no matter how bad the song was.

The Bad singles spent less time on the charts overall than the Thriller ones, although the first 5 from Bad all hit #1. He was rush releasing them, as soon as one peaked they were pushing the next single, although I don't think any of the ones from Bad, Thriller or Dangerous ever appeared together in the top ten the way Usher and Ashanti have done in recent years.

The 80s was a period of single madness. It was common for a hot album to have 5 hit singles show up in the to 40 over maybe a year and a half. That was before the record companies figured out that if you push a song on radio and don't make it into a single you can get people to shell out money for the entire CD.

[vashti1999]

I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think Leave Me Alone was released as a commercial single from MJ's Bad.

[jamesanthony]

While Bad had 5 #1 hits Thriller only had 2: Billie Jean (7 weeks) and Beat it (3 weeks). The others were The Girl is Mine (#2 pop, but #1 on r&b and adult contemporary), Wanna Be Starting Something, Human Nature, PYT and Thriller. The last 4 all hit the to ten on both pop and r&b. Human Nature hit #2 on adult contemporary. The single Thriller burned itself out by about June of 84 but the album kept selling for the rest of that year and according to Billboard was that year's #1 album. (It was #1 in 1983 also)

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
The Bad singles spent less time on the charts overall than the Thriller ones, although the first 5 from Bad all hit #1. He was rush releasing them, as soon as one peaked they were pushing the next single, although I don't think any of the ones from Bad, Thriller or Dangerous ever appeared together in the top ten the way Usher and Ashanti have done in recent years.

The 80s was a period of single madness. It was common for a hot album to have 5 hit singles show up in the to 40 over maybe a year and a half. That was before the record companies figured out that if you push a song on radio and don't make it into a single you can get people to shell out money for the entire CD.

IMO, that showed how stupid and greedy the labels were. In the 80's, albums that were loaded with singles like Thriller, Born In The U.S.A., Dirty Dancing, Purple Rain, Like A Virgin, Hysteria... ALL sold over 10 million copies each, and there are countless others like Forever Your Girl, Faith, Bad, Control, etc.... that sold between 6-10 million, and the fact that there were so many songs that were familiar to recordbuyers kept adding sales to them. Yet the labels got so greedy they decided to kill singles to serve a few more album sales. The industry is not the same as it used to be. N'Sync's album that sold 11 million only had 3 singles... and now as time has passed, nobody buys it anymore because there were only 3 singles instead of being milked for 5-6 (by comparison, 90's megasellers like Come On Over, Metallica and Jagged Little Pill, of which all had at least 5 songs released from them to radio/MTV, are all STILL selling healthy numbers, constantly outselling more recent followups by the same artists).

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
the Ryan White song, "Gone Too Soon" was from Dangerous.

This would mean that Dangerous had 8 singles. Janet had 7 singles apiece from Rhythm Nation 1814 and janet. and if I am remembering right all 14 of them were big hits.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by jamesanthony
The Bad singles spent less time on the charts overall than the Thriller ones, although the first 5 from Bad all hit #1. He was rush releasing them, as soon as one peaked they were pushing the next single, although I don't think any of the ones from Bad, Thriller or Dangerous ever appeared together in the top ten the way Usher and Ashanti have done in recent years.

Billie Jean and Beat It did co-exist in the top 10 for awhile in April/May 1983... not positive, but I think Beat It may still have been in the top 10 when Wanna Be Startin' Something came out... but still, all those songs had healthy runs..

As opposed to Usher, who is going WAAAAAAYYYYY too fast with singles. As soon as Yeah went top 5, he released Burn, and as soon as Burn went top 10, he released ANOTHER single, despite the fact the first song was still #1 on the chart. That was just too excessive. Whereas when Ashanti had 3 songs in the top 10, 2 of which were collaborations with rappers that appeared on their subsequent albums, while just one of which was on Ashanti's own cd.

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
(by comparison, 90's megasellers like Come On Over, Metallica and Jagged Little Pill, of which all had at least 5 songs released from them to radio/MTV, are all STILL selling healthy numbers, constantly outselling more recent followups by the same artists).

Another question is which album had the most songs hit the charts, regardless of whether or not the company made them into singles. Shania Twain's Come On Over had a whole slew of them, like maybe 9 though only 5 crossed over outside of the country format. Saturday Night Fever had a lot also as did a few other film soundtracks. Now it is common to look at the charts and see someone like Kanye West or 50 Cent or R Kelly have many different songs from the same album charting simultaneously.

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
Billie Jean and Beat It did co-exist in the top 10 for awhile in April/May 1983... not positive, but I think Beat It may still have been in the top 10 when Wanna Be Startin' Something came out... but still, all those songs had healthy runs..

As opposed to Usher, who is going WAAAAAAYYYYY too fast with singles. As soon as Yeah went top 5, he released Burn, and as soon as Burn went top 10, he released ANOTHER single, despite the fact the first song was still #1 on the chart. That was just too excessive. Whereas when Ashanti had 3 songs in the top 10, 2 of which were collaborations with rappers that appeared on their subsequent albums, while just one of which was on Ashanti's own cd.

You're right about Beat it and Billie Jean overlapping. I remember now that there was only one week between the two songs being number one. Come On Eileen got in the way in the spring of 1983. I'm not sure about Beat it and Wanna Be Startin Soemthing though.

I don't know what Usher and his company have in mind, but the 3 singles he's had out this year have spanned about 6 months the same time that the first 4 Thriller singles spanned. Other artists push a lot of songs in a short span like the ones I mentioned earlier: Kanye West, R Kelly, but people I suppose want to eat up Usher's songs so they are jumping up the charts more than those other acts.

[dlemond]

Uggh.

If you think Bad is a better album than Thriller, you have your own issues.

And no matter what, Thriller made MORE money than Bad.

[jamesanthony]

Originally posted by dlemond
Uggh.

If you think Bad is a better album than Thriller, you have your own issues.

And no matter what, Thriller made MORE money than Bad.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of his adult music. He was better when he was a youngster on Motown. As for the singles he and Janet did set all sorts of chart records some in gimmicky ways like in 1995 when You Are Not Alone became the first single ever to debut at #1 only because it was saturated at radio for weeks so that when it was finally released as a commercial single the demand for it was so great that it entered at #1. But it din't stay there for all that long if I remember right.

[dlemond]

Off the Wall is essential music.

Otherwise, ehh.

ABC, I Want You Back, Ben, all that is almost baby music to me.

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by dlemond
Uggh.

If you think Bad is a better album than Thriller, you have your own issues.

Who said Bad was a better album than Thriller?