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The singles failed to break the top 40, with " More to Lose " charting at No. 117 and " Bitter Heart " peaking at No. 70 on the UK Singles Chart.
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) Decca released two singles, " Blue Days, Black Nights " and " Modern Don Juan ", that failed to make an impression.
This album failed to chart and, though " Find a Way " was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released.
A series of Tin Machine singles failed to chart, and Bowie, after a disagreement with EMI, left the label.
Though the single " Calling America " placed in the Top 30 in the United Kingdom ( number 28 ) and Top 20 in the States, subsequent singles failed to chart.
Brown also released the singles, " How Long " and " Georgia-Lina ", these songs failed to chart.
After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre in 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the group soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.
The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.
" The Undertones did, however, release two studio singles, " Beautiful Friend " and " The Love Parade ", in February and October, however both of the singles the band released failed to make an impact upon the UK charts.
Despite these hit singles, the album failed to do well in the United States, while in the UK it went triple platinum and remained in the album chart for two years.
The record was championed by DJ John Peel, as were all of their later singles, but failed to chart.
Despite its pop stylings, the album failed to crossover beyond the band's existing fanbase and produced no major hit singles.
Despite several albums over the next three years he failed to repeat his earlier successes, with no singles managing to reach the Billboard Hot 100 except for 1982's " Change ," climbing into the Billboard R & B Top 20 (# 12 ).
The first single from the album, Spence's " My Best Friend ," failed to chart, but the next two singles rocketed the group to prominence.
They made their debut performance as the " Barbarellas " on the morning television show Lorraine although the duo were dropped by their record label for the second time in 2011 as their two singles and album failed to chart.
Further singles " Walkabout " and " Vitamin " failed to make any chart impact however, and shortly after the album's release, the Sugarcubes disbanded.
After the success of their last three singles, all of which had made it to number-one, S Club 7 failed to top the charts when they released their ninth single, " You "; it reached number-two in the UK.
" Talk About Our Love " reached number six in the United Kingdom but later singles failed to score successfully on the popular music charts.
After Diddley failed to get the group signed to his label, Chess Records, he assigned the band to OKeh Records, a subsidiary for Columbia, releasing only two singles, including " Wyatt Earp ".
It was their first album, which failed to score either platinum or gold, and all three of its singles failed to chart.
Oakey and Moroder then recorded an album together for Virgin, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, but this met with rather less success and the following two singles failed to make the UK Top 40.
With their first album, Kissing to Be Clever ( UK No. 5, US No. 14 ) ( 1982 ), the band released two singles in May and June 1982, " White Boy " and " I'm Afraid of Me ", both failed to chart.
Although again it failed to chart and as a result the singles are now quite rare.
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The Undertones released thirteen singles and four studio albums between 1978 and 1983 before Sharkey announced his intention to leave the band in May 1983, citing musical differences as the reason for the break up.
In various interviews, Newman has credited The Fleetwoods with giving him his first national break: the trio recorded his song, " They Tell Me It's Summer ", as the B side of one of their 11 hit singles, giving Newman great exposure and royalties ( piggy-backed on the sale of the Fleetwoods ' 1962 hit A side, " Lovers By Night, Strangers By Day ").
Graf eventually broke Navratilova's records of 156 consecutive weeks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player but did not break Navratilova's record 167 singles titles as Graf reached 107.
In April, González became the third Chilean ( after Ríos and Massú ) to break into the top 10 singles ranking.
Scribe took a break from new singles and toured the country on the Hook It Up tour before he returned in late 2004 with a new single off P-Money's Magic City album called " Stop the Music ", again reaching No. 1.
The album broke the top 10, but singles I stället för musik, förvirring (" Instead of music, confusion ") and Düsseldorf would both fail to break the singles top 10-peaking at 13 and 28 respectively.
After taking a break from her career in the mid-1950s to raise a family, Wright entered country music in the 1960s, cutting a few singles for the Chart label.
After another long break, the group released Music to Gang Bang in 2006 which also did not sell well and contained four singles, most notably the single with same title as the album Music to Gang Bang.
The singles from the Duran Duran album did not receive much airplay in the United States on the album's first release ; both the band and the New Romantic fashion style were unknown, and very few British bands were able to break into American radio at that time.
Described on Sash's biography as " the big break ", it reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart, as well as reaching the top 10 of five countries ' singles charts, and the top 20 of seven countries ' singles charts.
They released four Indie singles, but failed to earn themselves a big break until 1990.
The purpose of plying singles is to strengthen them so that they do not break while knitting or crocheting them.
After a two month break from TNA, Storm returned on June 10 at Slammiversary, answering Crimson's open challenge, defeating him in a singles match and ending his undefeated streak in TNA.
This was the overall singles chart that was shown near the end of every episode following the second commercial break.
The album spawned another three hit singles, but the band soon announced plans they were to break again, following the conclusion of their world tour.
The singles failed to break the Top 40, according to The Independent ; " More to Lose " charting at position 117 and " Bitter Heart " charting at 79 on the UK Singles Chart.
Men on a Mission took a small break from teaming in the summer of 1994 as Mabel, who was seen as the big star of the group, began wrestling more singles matches in an attempt to get over as a solo wrestler.
Despite becoming the first of four number one Hot 100 Airplay hits for Lopez, " Love Don't Cost a Thing " peaked at number three for two consecutive weeks, unable to break the stride of stronger singles from Shaggy and Joe.
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It has sold over nine million singles and albums and was the top single of a year in which the British Invasion, led by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, continued to dominate the U. S. charts.
* Michael Alexander St. John: A parody of hyperbolic and pun-laden radio presenting, St. John presents items such as the top 10 singles charts and the weekend's gigs.
The first single " Better Be Home Soon " peaked at number two on both Australian and New Zealand singles charts and reached top 50 In the US, though the following four singles were less successful.
That song, a cover of Tom Paxton's " The Last Thing on My Mind ", released in late 1967, reached the country top ten in January 1968, launching a six-year streak of virtually uninterrupted top-ten singles for the pair.
A second single, the double A-sided single " Two Doors Down "/" It's All Wrong, But It's All Right " also topped the country singles chart and crossed over to the pop top twenty.
She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).
Aladdin Sane spawned the UK top five singles " The Jean Genie " and " Drive-In Saturday ".
Its three singles became top twenty hits in both countries, where its title track reached number one.
Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.
Incorporating experiments in British jungle and drum ' n ' bass, Earthling ( 1997 ) was a critical and commercial success in the UK and the US, and two singles from the album became UK top 40 hits.
The title track, performed by both Newton-John and ELO, is ELO's only song to top the singles chart in the United Kingdom.
The single was a phenomenal success in the UK, staying at the top of the singles chart for nine consecutive weeks, during which time the group's previous single " Relax " climbed back up the charts to number two.
In this radio format, disc-jockeys would select one of a set of the forty best-selling singles ( usually in a rack ) as rated by Billboard magazine or from the station's own chart of the local top selling songs.
George Clinton's interdependent Funkadelic and Parliament ensembles and their various spin-offs, took the genre to its most extreme lengths making funk almost a religion in the 1970s, producing over forty singles, including three in the US top ten, and three platinum albums.
Robyn's US breakthrough came in 1997, when the dance-pop singles " Show Me Love " and " Do You Know ( What It Takes )" reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100.
Hi Infidelity spawned four hit singles written by Richrath and Cronin, including the # 1 " Keep On Loving You " ( Cronin ), the # 5 " Take It on the Run " ( Richrath ), " In Your Letter " (# 20 ) ( Richrath ), and " Don't Let Him Go " (# 24 ) ( Cronin ), and remained on the charts for 65 weeks, 32 of which were spent in the top ten, including 15 weeks atop the Billboard 200.
It features the top 25 hit singles " A Hazy Shade of Winter ", " Fakin ' It ", " At the Zoo ", " America " and a full version of " Mrs. Robinson " – the classic No. 1 single from The Graduate soundtrack.
Strachan released further solo singles, " Mr Summer " in October and " Nothing but the Best " in January 1979, but neither charted in the top 50.
Scoring some 23 UK top 40 singles and 17 UK top 40 albums to date in a career spanning four decades, the Stranglers are the longest-surviving and most " continuously successful " band to have originated in the UK punk scene of the mid to late 1970s.
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