best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

how do you "admit" what someone else did

Okay, I'd take both those songs over "The Girl Is Mine". Still a bit surprising.

On reflection I'm voting Supremes.

how do you "admit" what someone else did

by typing too quickly?

haha ok

"The First Night" is so damn good

I never listen to "Yesterday" willingly :(

I best appreciate it when sung by a strolling restaurant guitarist.

By the way, "Yesterday" wasn't on Help! at the time.

I'll take the sublime run from Fever.

"Bad" has a string of three #1's and "Thriller" didn't? Surprising.

has had

Tempted to go with SNF but there are a lot of good choices here.

Voted for Saturday Night Fever between SNF, Madonna, JT.

usher, janet & toni

my initial thought, before deciding to do this poll as is, was to ask which was the best LAST #1 out of these runs? "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" feels like one of the only super memorable ones, most of the others seemed to benefit from momentum

Yeah, tho fwiw "Everything She Wants" is my favorite of that Wham run.

'everything she wants' is all-time, so good. but this is madonna for me, definitely 3 of her best songs, maybe 3 of her top 5.

Supremes over Michael over Beatles '65

Open Your Heart is real solid, and I have always had a soft spot for What Goes Around

Papa Don't Preach weighs down the True Blue triptych for me. Swap that one out for, say, Express Yourself or Cherish (did that even make #1) and suddenly I'm voting Madonna easy

"Everything She Wants" is my favourite Wham single, period.

The best last #1 is a tough choice too, for me it's either "What Goes Around....Comes Around", "If I Can't Have You", "Everything She Wants", or "Dirty Diana" (one of his more underrated singles, IMO).

possibly either Faith or Rhythm Nation.

"Cherish" was held off at #2 by "Miss You Much," and "Express Yourself" was held off at #2 by, uh, Simply Red

Help! is a good choice also but i typically would rather listen to the Faith or Rhythm Nation singles than "yesterday"

Yeah otm

Swap that one out for, say, Express Yourself or Cherish (did that even make #1)

no but "Who's That Girl" and "Like a Prayer" did.

the selection between george and janet was tough but i had to go with faith, because that run was so ufw that i owned both the album and each of those cassingles

the Jam & Lewis extended remix of "Monkey" is what I imagine heaven sounds like

love this stat about "One More Try":

It was a triple-chart #1, also topping the R&B and Adult Contemporary charts and becoming the last number-one single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart by a white male artist until Robin Thicke's "Lost Without U" (2007).

Voted Madonna over Supremes.

voted whitney

Not a single one where I love all three songs.

Madonna comes pretty close, so I'll cast a vote for her.

"love all three" is a pretty tall order, but there's plenty of "love two and like the other(s)" for me

Saturday Night Fever

voted true blue (which surprised me as i think that's her weakest album pre-american life), if 'black cat' was replaced by literally any other single from rhythm nation this would've been janet easy for me. runners up to snf, george michael. change 'baby don't forget my number' to 'girl i'm gonna miss you' and i might've voted milli vanilli.

the ones I considered:

Supremes - rock solid
Saturday Night Fever - not big on HDIYL, the other three are godlike
Janet - Black Cat ruined it for me
Madonna - even without La Isla Bonita this gets my vote

i don't love "Black Cat" but i can't see it as a weak link, especially next to "Escapade"

I love Black Cat because it's basically The Time with Janet instead of Morris. I'd rather Morris, but you know.

ha never thought of it that way but yeah totally

two of these my fave single is the one that didn't go to #1 - whitney's 'love will save the day', adele's 'rumour has it',

i just kinda dig those 'pop acts start headbanging for a sec' type hits like "Dirty Diana" and En Vogue's "Free Your Mind" (xpost)

It's a bit crazy - "Black Cat" has Jellybean on drums, Jimmy & Terry as usual, and Jesse plays a solo used for a bunch of the remixes. I'm not sure Monte's on it, but he did work with Janet in those years.

xposts

pedant alert: the beatles 'help!' did not have 3 #1's as 'yesterday' was not released as a single in the uk and in america 'yesterday' was of course on this album -
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my bad

haha always hated en vogue's 'free yr mind' - just so dorky as rock, comparable to changing 'yr ass' to 'the rest'. 'black cat' i'm just not crazy about in relation to that album, it's like 'ignoreland' on automatic for the people. plus her vocals are too thin to pull it off imo. 'dirty diana' is pretty great (if no 'beat it'), steve steven's solo shreds. love bad enough as is but considering how mj rawks out was great every time out - 'beat it', 'dirty diana', 'give in to me' - i do wonder what it would've been like if mj's followup to thriller is just to go full rawk, give in to the edgar winter fan he was as a kid and simultaneously fuck w/ prince by giving america the purple rain 2 prince wasn't interested in.

i'm old enough to have owned those american beatles lps as a kid and i barely remembered, the extent to which the switch to cd allowed the beatles to finally completely erase the existence of those is kinda amazing.

the confessions singles. they're really diverse!

yeah kind of amazing how much they were able to whitewash the existence of several records that sold millions (xpost)

I love all three of those Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" singles - so that.

George Michael easy

it's so crazy that there were THIRTEEN number ones off of three 1987 albums

That era was the peak of "indie promoter" radio payola wasn't it?

Supremes for me.

my favorites are michael jackson, monica, christina aguilera, justin timberlake, fergie. i'll think a little more before i decide which one gets my vote.

I do wonder how "Black Cat" became the only Janet song to date with a solo writing credit; all hands on deck on the instrumental credits.

a "Black Cat" vs "Dirty Diana" poll would be awesome.

Vanilli got 4 and Katy got 0 lololol

oh man I'd forgotten how much I love the original "Express Yourself"

WTF apparently I have never listened to this album before because I had NO IDEA about "Love Song"!!!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on the original "Express Yourself". "Love Song" OTOH sounds like a Prince song on a Madonna album.

My favorite moment on the album is on "Love Song":

"Embrasse-moi"
"What?"

hahahaha Madonna's old foghorn voice on "Oh Father", man I missed that braying instrument

which version of "Keep It Together" do you prefer, dan – the single remix or album version?

single mix, because I always want to sing "however do you want me/however do you need me" over it

jfc what is she doing to her throat on "Pray For Spanish Eyes"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha "Act of Contrition"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

coke was involved in this, y/n

and Prince.

Like a Prayer is an awesome album mainly for the songs mentioned itt.