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

yeah, George in the "Wake Me Up" video is classic, fuiud

http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tumblr_m01h1kNBqx1qjgw3wo1_500.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li4a35dtQu1qhjikro1_500.gif

The shorts, the gloves, the hair, I was ten and I knew he was gay before he did (I also pretty much found out about myself watching his videos and Duran Duran's).

Still don't think he was gayer than Simon Le Bon Bon.

any gayer, that is

i thought simon le bon was just a straight guy who sucked a lot of lemons

Is this a Gerhard Richter?

http://media.mtvi.com/_!/intlod/MTVInternational/sony_int/gb1101/000264/GB1101000264_640x480_1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mINh8ZOWSLw

Maybe his look wasn't (though I'd argue about that too), but his voice and dancing definitely. (x-post)

Leaning toward Janet Jackson, btw.

Monkey is the only Faith single I LOVE

Father Figure pwns

I'd argue the Paula and George singles (last ones excepted) are p much of a piece as well

Also: Spottie if ur reading this you really have to tell me what's the dealw your dn

the second most important poll on that day.

went for the Supremes, it's probably very safe, but I never got tired of those songs and they have followed me since childhood.

would've voted for Supremes had they been three different Supremes songs (not that I dislike those, i just like other ones better).

This list is so weird and arbitrary though. These aren't the best songs of most of these artists, except for a few where these are their only good songs.

I mean looking at actual sales of these albums pretty much says it all.

The Supremes, Beatles 65, maybe Wham or Madonna. But damn those SNF songs!
Yeah, going Brothers Gibb SNF.

I'm thinking of voting for Adele! Those are three really solid songs. Beatles '65 would take this but a pretty strong case has been made that they shouldn't count. "Come See About Me" is a lesser track imo, compared to the first two Supremes #1s from that album. Janet Jackson provides the strongest competition right now.

That Madonna run does contain two of the handful of Madonna songs I actually enjoy so that probably counts for something.

Bee Gees...

never ever heard of my boo before

"father figure" is absolutely amazing. best song ever actually.

i also love "big girls don't cry" though i am not surprised that people don't hold it in high regard.

Xp Duet w/Alicia Keys. Not good.

Magical Mystery Tour is the only one where I adore every song, though Wham and the Supremes come pretty close. "All You Need Is Love" is nowhere near as facile as ILM seems to think. Never been a big fan of "Father Figure" myself, or "Love Will Never Do Without You." Couldn't really tell you why in either case.

I kind of feel like MMF doesn't count bcz its just the previous three singles packaged with some other stuff to make up the soundtrack for a movie instead of an actual germane album, but tbh I'm wondering if a similar sketchiness pervades all the Beatles options here

"Help" was recorded back-to-front as one album even though it's a soundtrack. The fact that "Yesterday" didn't appear on the American version (and it wasn't a single in the UK, where it actually did appear on Help) sorta complicates matters, though.

"Where Did Our Love Go" was an after-the-fact collection of singles etc. too, like most 60s Motown albums (and most 60s pop albums generally).

Tania Rosamund Harcourt-Cooze

!!!

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), Didn't We Almost Have it All, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go

this is the fucking nadir of everything

Where Do Broken Hearts Go When I Get So Emotional that I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)

wish i lived in a universe where "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" was the nadir of anything

supremes

"Help" was recorded back-to-front as one album even though it's a soundtrack. The fact that "Yesterday" didn't appear on the American version (and it wasn't a single in the UK, where it actually did appear on Help) sorta complicates matters, though.

US tracklisting (compiled by Capitol "producer" Dave Dexter, Jr., in an all-nighter):

Side one

"Help!" (preceded by an uncredited instrumental intro) – 2:39
"The Night Before" – 2:36
"From Me to You Fantasy" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:08
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" – 2:12
"I Need You" (Harrison) – 2:31
"In the Tyrol" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:26

Side two

"Another Girl" – 2:08
"Another Hard Day's Night" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:31
"Ticket to Ride" – 3:07
Medley: "The Bitter End" (Ken Thorne)/"You Can't Do That" (instrumental) (Lennon–McCartney; arranged by Thorne) – 2:26
"You're Going to Lose That Girl" – 2:19
"The Chase" (instrumental) (Ken Thorne) – 2:31

So yeah, only 7 out of 12 songs are actual Beatles recordings. The rest of the UK version dribbled out onto the aforementioned Yesterday and Today, the US Rubber Soul, and Beatles VI.

"My Boo" is actually one of my favorites from the Usher run but there's an argument to be made about it not counting w/ the initial trio of hits, since it was a bonus track on the later deluxe edition (and deluxe editions were decisively nixed as counting in runs of #1s when Katy Perry started gunning for MJ's record)

huh, interesting. i was gonna say that is just deck rigging. but on second thought, if anyone would agree to take the hit on those terms it would be usher

well i don't think he specifically was releasing the song that way or rooting for it to be counted that way -- that was a pretty early instance of the 'victory lap' deluxe editions that became standard in the following years

probably Wham! for me. Lots of these aren't good complete runs and tbh I agree on whitney, that whole album just sounds stiff to me.

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), Didn't We Almost Have it All, So Emotional, Where Do Broken Hearts Go

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I only started tolerate "I Wanna Dance..." after she died tbh.

oh god I forgot David Byrne covered it.

i just vastly prefer "Dance With Somebody" and "So Emotional" to anything from the self-titled run. i don't know why i like it, i just do!

"I Wanna Dance" is such a blatant attempt at redoing "How Will I Know", but it sounds so forced.

Britney Spears did it right when "Oops I did it again" was the same song as "Baby One More Time" but somehow just as good.

I don't understand why anyone likes "So Emotional"

had never heard "Everything She Wants" before, might have to vote for Wham

The least awful of the 4 though. I mean, "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"...

had never heard "Everything She Wants" before, might have to vote for Wham

that song is INCREDIBLE, I'm somewhat surprised you hadn't heard it before!

The least awful of the 4 though. I mean, "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"...

I honestly can't pick a "least worst" here, I hate all four of these so much

i probably have heard it, just didn't register who it was by or what it was called