High-selling singles that never entered the Billboard top 40

"Home" was in a couple ads too, iirc.

maybe Community viewers buy music on iTunes en masse? Childish Gambino has never had a top 40 hit but two of his songs have gone gold. xp

britt nicole "gold" (#83, gold)

aaron carter "saturday night" (did not chart, gold)
janet jackson "i want you" (#57, platinum)
seether "fake it" (#56, platinum)
goo goo dolls "stay with you" (#51, gold)
green day "american idiot" (#61, gold)
blink-182 "feeling this" (did not chart, gold); "i miss you" (#42, gold)
eminem "space bound" (did not chart, gold)
lifehouse "broken" (#83, platinum)
nickelback "figured you out" (#65, gold)
3 doors down "citizen/soldier" (#96, gold)
o-zone "dragostea din tei" (did not chart, gold)
ashley tisdale "he said, she said" (#58, gold)
john legend "tonight (best you ever had)" (#79, platinum)
ludacris "blueberry yum yum" (did not chart, gold)
kanye west "diamonds from sierra leone" (#43, gold); "touch the sky" (#42, gold); "can't tell me nothing" (#41, platinum); "gotta have it" (#69, gold); "no church in the wild" (#72, gold)
jay-z "dead presidents" (#50, gold); "gotta have it" and "no church in the wild" (see kanye)
big & rich "save a horse (ride a cowboy)" (#56, gold)
system of a down "chop suey" (#76, gold); "hypnotize" (#57, gold)
fall out boy "alone together" (#71, gold)
rihanna "cockiness (love it)" (did not chart, gold)

taylor swift

"i'm only me when i'm with you" (did not chart, gold)
"hey stephen" (#94, gold)
"breathe" (#87, gold)
"enchanted" (#75, gold)

Capitol Cities "Safe and Sound" is another example of it breaking the top 10 other than Foster the People although I secretly fux with that song (and it rips off M83 instead of MGMT)

― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Thursday, October 30, 2014 4:23 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Q: Does "Sweater Weather" by the Neighbourhood count?

(Not top 10, but top 20.)

ugh, safe and sound is the worst

xp not really. right audience, wrong style imo

ugh, safe and sound is the worst

Seriously. It makes me stabby.

drowning pool "bodies" (did not chart, gold)

Just discovered this:

"Tempted" was the second single released from Squeeze's fourth album, East Side Story. Over the years it has become one of Squeeze's best-known songs, despite failing to crack the Top 40 in any country in which it was released (UK No. 41, Canada No. 45, US No. 49, Australia No. 90)

That completely blows my mind.

Paula Abdul - 'Knocked Out'. It peaked at 41!

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - 'Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble'. It peaked at 57!!