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

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.

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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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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.

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.

not the immediate followup, of course, but to a degree Dangerous picks up that baton.

Thought about it some more, and I should have voted for the Supremes. Very close. "Eight Days a Week"/"Ticket to Ride"/"Help" would beat just about anything for me, but alas, not the same album (though consecutive).

Good one!

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George Michael easy

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my dude

Timberlake v Madonna v George Michael v Saturday Night Fever. Timberlake's run is unusually consistent - very much of a piece.

Close between Saturday Night Fever and George Michael for me.

Supremes

Oooh I could've voted Wham! too but seeing a dud like "Father figure" on this list turned me off

Wham! vs. George Michael for me. All classics except "Monkey".

The 3 #1 singles from Whitney's first album are my 3 favorite singles by her.

I might've considered Fergie had "Fergalicious" made #1 instead of "Glamorous".

Madonna and Janet are obviously very strong except for "Black Cat", which I always found laughable and anoying.

Not that it would make a difference, but Milli Vanilli should have "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" instead of "Girl You Know It's True" (which was #2).

wait -- how is "Father Figure" a dud? Don't you love loud breathy gay man whispering in your ear about being warm and neh-kid by your side?

haha how can anything but "Big Girls Don't Cry" be the weak link in the Fergie trio

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