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

"helter skelter" kinda sounds like "the long and winding road"

typos galore there, sorry. i just mean i only remember "the long and winding rooooooad *fanfare*" and nothing else, despite having put the song on and saying "ok today's the day where i try to listen to The Long And Winding Road"

surprised to see anyone give Katy Perry daps itt, especially DJP!

Yeah, me too!

I would def argue that she's got one of the stronger runs of the last 20 years, stronger than Christina even

to be fair i have actively enjoyed 3/5ths of the Katy run but in more of a Dr. Luke stan/anybody could have sung this way

mariah tops from past twenty years for me - 'one sweet day' is a weak link but considering boyzIImen and mariah had already recorded two or three worse versions of that song by that point it's a small miracle it's bearable; the other two are strong contenders for best mariah single ever. after that i guess i'd half heartedly go timberlake (if the big 3 from justified were up there i might've voted that overall).

Katy Perry doesn't have the prettiest voice but she understands pretty well how it works; reading a description of her as a contralto really made a lot of the braying click into place for me.

That Mariah run just made me hate Mariah for years, ESPECIALLY "One Sweet Day"

Aguilera and Adele are the only ones of the last 20 years that don't contain any outright duds imo but don't have the heights of some of the others

yeah i really really hated 'one sweet day' at the time but i think alot of that was more it coming on the heels of so many attempts from both parties at rewriting 'the greatest love of all'; i'm in no hurry to hear it again but i'd rather hear it than say 'hero'. 'fantasy' was the first mariah i loved, 'always be my baby' is the kind of low intensity uptempo pop i wished more of her hits were, a pop song as opposed to an 'event'.

actually I do love "Always Be My Baby", I shouldn't front

Aguilera has so many terrible singles, guys; the three in the poll are the exceptions (there's a couple others). She doesn't horrify me like Katy Perry; I'm more saddened by her ineptness and...uneven ear for picking songs.

at this moment i'd probably rather hear 'one sweet day' than 'someone like you' and 'someone like you' isn't even the weak link there arguably

really wish "Rumour Has It" was in that run, it's my favorite of the singles

The reevaluation of Carey (SFJ in The New Yorker!) in 2005 was the only time one of those delirious "think pieces" did its job on me. I took her for granted for most of the nineties because I thought her ballads ("Vision of Love" and "My All" excepted) were straight garbage. Whenever she did anything with a faster tempo she improved measurably.

Aguilera has so many terrible singles, guys; the three in the poll are the exceptions (there's a couple others). She doesn't horrify me like Katy Perry; I'm more saddened by her ineptness and...uneven ear for picking songs.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh i would definitely say that outside those 3 singles and a couple others she's pretty worthless, but we're not talking about whole careers here

otm on "Rumour Has It."

re: Xtina, Stripped-era was the peak and pretty much every single from then is amazing

signed, the one-man "Dirrty" street team

lol as if "The Voice Within" isn't as bad as any bloated ballad in this poll (xpost)

that is the weak link but it's a much, much better song than "One Sweet Day"

haha i am also a huge 'rumour has it' fan. tempted to do a poll of best single from these albums to not make it to #1.

xp: or any of the horrific Whitney II singles

"Rumour Has It" is like a cheesy remnant from her Winehouse understudy days, all of Adele's #1s are much better imo

Katy Perry doesn't have the prettiest voice

yeah... Yeah.

I didn't mind her voice as much on her peppy early singles, but something like "Fireworks" makes me make a sour face like I just opened a package of rotting meat.

haha i am also a huge 'rumour has it' fan. tempted to do a poll of best single from these albums to not make it to #1.

as long as "I Still Believe" isn't on this list.

okay lol

'best single from these albums to not make it to #1' is an excellent idea, balls, if you don't feel like bothering lemme know and i'll throw it together

I wonder if Brenda K Starr plays Mariah's cover on repeat while chopping at a mirror with a meat cleaver

I can imagine this brilliant run of Janet options ("Any Time, Any Place," "Because of Love," "Alright") and too many ones to count for Madonna.

yeah i'm not gonna bother (i don't want to research what black eyed peas single didn't make it). 'any time any place' is from janet which i'm a little amazed isn't here. early campaigning for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQ4yAFiJkY

pre-emptive 'don't count b-sides of penny lane or hello goodbye' motion

yah good call

There's a great Morales/Jellybean remix of "Love Will Save The Day."

albums i'm most surprised to not see on this list: thriller (though i think i knew this tbh), like a virgin, janet, some other early beatles (hard days night, second album, beatles 65, whatever), one of the first few monkees albums, my way, an innocent man, she's so unusual, any hip-hop except bep.

sports, fore!, no jacket required, ...but seriously, jagged little pill, cracked rear view

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

yeah Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and Paper Trail and probably a few rap albums just barely fell short

The last two are part of the mid nineties airplay interzone.

i.e. JLP and CRV

it says something that virtually all of these besides the Beatles are either R&B or whatever its era's flavor of 'rhythmic pop' was

o right, i think i was getting my chart infom from hearing rick dees piped thru the pa at the base exchange at the time so my memory is skewed, should've remembered since i did remember that in keeping tragic kingdom off that list

combine that era's idea of r&b plus that era's idea of ac = the model for #1 hits.

or it was, until some numbnuts at billboard felt he needed to unskew the charts

I don't know if Katy Perry's voice is really even a problem on "Firework" because it's such a horribly written song to begin with

― a slow tempo, and existential lyrics with YOLO imagery. (crüt), Thursday, November 1, 2012 1:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

I don't know if I've ever heard the whole thing. I just have to hear a few seconds of it blaring before I make the gasface

before your colors burst

i really have no idea how "Firework" became an 'it gets better' gay pride thing when the lyrics much more clearly evoke acts of terrorism or a school shooting

the singing is like the cries of children after an Obamadrone vaporized their parents.

the only two of those katy perry songs i know well are 'california girls' and 'teenage dream' (first is ok, love the second), i know i've heard 'firework' and 'e.t.' at least once but i've blocked any memory of how they go. i think one of them rips off tatu iirc.

"E.T." is the t.A.T.u-esque one

Katy Perry's voice is more like:

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