songs that weren't a bands biggest hit, but have gone on to be their legacy song and biggest iTunes seller

The opening lines are like the definition of Classic Rock

It hits this spot right in the middle of Queen and Bon Jovi

Honestly yeah the inbred-looking extended family of Wisconsonites in the row in front of us all went "yissss!", pumped their fists and began filming on their phones when Tommy Shaw sang the opening lines.

Also the 3rd best utilization of Styx on Freaks and Geeks.

Tony Bennett's top Spotify track is his duet w/Amy Winehouse on "Body and Soul".

https://i.imgur.com/gmco70l.jpg

lol

"Entourage" star Tony Bennett dies at 96.

Yeah, for most people with a detectable pulse, he is the guy who did duets with Lady Gaga and Billy Joel and he may have been in an Austin Powers movie. Sorry.

Interestingly enough, the 2nd biggest Bennett track on Spotify is a version of "The Way You Look Tonight" from a 2012 rarities collection, a recording I assume blew up because of a movie/tv synch or something.

^^My Best Friend's Wedding

This is a funny one: "Let's Twist Again" is Chubby Checker's top Spotify song, beating "The Twist" by around 40 million spins.

you can only Twist once, but you can Twist Again many times

“The Twist” plays are vote-split btw the Checker, Fat Boys, and Hank Ballard & The Midnighters versions.

is this a safe space to admit that i actually really love the Fat Boys version

Am I right that "Let's Twist Again" was technically the bigger hit, by some metrics? It's certainly the one I heard more as an oldie growing up.

Seems it was in the UK.

It's certainly the one I heard more as an oldie growing up.

Same here, going back to the days when they had to play those tracks off tapes because they weren't on CD yet.

I can even remember a period when the local station would only play "Let's Twist Again" and "Limbo Rock" from him.

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Their biggest hits were "Make It With You" (#1) and "Baby I'm-a-Want You" (#3) but "Everything I Own" (#5) is their most streamed song by a 28 million stream margin.

And yet, the first two get played on Sirius's Yacht Rock station constantly, and I've never heard the last one there (or anywhere else, really)

The Ken Boothe and Boy George cover versions were huge in the UK though

Goldfinger's "Superman" is by far their biggest song and definitely their legacy song (Thanks to THPS) even though "Here in you bedroom" I think was their biggest hot at the time.

on further reading, I see they were mentioned already, forgot to see all messages before I did my ctrl - F

Do Metallica belong here now, post Stranger Things?

That’s an odd case, since MoP was a legacy song before they started having hits.

I was quite surprised to see today that Gil Scott-Heron's most streamed song on Spotify is "Lady Day and John Coltrane". Granted it's basically tied with "The Revolution Will not Be Televised" but still.

It’s a bit catchier

Have heard "Lady Day and John Coltrane" many times over the years out in the wild and on the radio versus hardly ever for "Revolution".

I mean it’s probably on some popular Spotify playlist called “organic vibes” or something

GSH on Televised:

It was the only political piece on the album.... Very few people heard 'Save the Children', 'Lady Day and John Coltrane' or 'I Think I Call It Morning'. They just missed the point. The point became one of the 11 pieces. The least inventive one on the album was the one that was the most heralded.

"Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" will (please) never be Bruce Springsteen's biggest Spotify hit but... it's getting there

xp if "The Bottle" were on Spotify I'm pretty sure that would be GSH's most streamed track.

The top Doors song on spotify & itunes is "riders on the storm," with "people are strange" coming in second. Those are definitely hits, but I'm still a little surprised to see them besting "Light My Fire," which is their fourth biggest streamer on Spotify.

I would have bet on "Johannesburg."

(re: GSH)

Article about when this happens due to TikTok

Weird with Ladytron cause I woudn't have guessed Destroy Everything You Touch was previously their biggest streamer, and Seventeen has always been their biggest song for me personally

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/11/viral-hit-tiktok-gen-z-mother-ladytron-keane-miguel

lol "Forgotten bands" like Miguel

though--wow--"Sure Thing" has three times as many streams as "Adorn"

I've heard "Sure Thing" on pop radio way more often than I ever did "Adorn" in 2012

They both hit #1 on R&B, but Adorn made it to #17 on the Pop chart and "Sure Thing" was #36.

In my experience, I heard Adorn on the radio far more

"sure thing" reached #11 on the hot 100 last year

this year!

That's what I meant by my first comment if it wasn't clear.

Ah, I see. I had no idea it was re-released.

was it this year? damn

I don't have the proof, but I'm pretty sure "Seventeen" was always the biggest Ladytron song, and certainly (even before the Tik Tok thing) the track they're best known for in the US.

I read that article earlier this evening and had exactly the same response: I always thought Seventeen was one of their biggest tracks.

it's the only Ladytron song I know tbh

classic too

"famous because of a tiktok glitch" articles are kind of getting to the point of
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