anybody have a favourite song that was released but didnt chart or wasnt a hit?....i think one of the greatest songs ever released in the 80s not to make the top 75 was the brilliant "tinseltown in the rain" a lot of people in the uk regard this song as a classic but it never even charted in the top 75 singles !!!! amazing....a wonderful, timeless song that i never get tired of hearing.

Because they were never released as commercial singles in the US:

Huge airplay hits:
Into the Groove - Madonna
Don't Speak - No Doubt
State of the World - Janet Jackson

All the great songs released only to radio before the chart rules were changed in '98.
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Axchi696 said:

It's almost a crime that this song wasn't officially released as a single.It got MASSIVE radio airplay in the spring/summer of '85.It would have been a surefire Number One single.

DavidEye said:

i know!
it would have added to her list of #1 singles...

It was the bside to angel. How stupid

jayaredee said:

Indeed.I guess Warners didn't want this song to compete with her "Like A Virgin" singles,which were still going strong.But Warners wised up as the years went by.In 1989,Madonna recorded the song "Vogue" as a throwaway B-side to "Keep It Together".Warners heard this song and demanded that she release it as a single in it's own right.It went straight to Number One.

blackboab said:

Downtown Lights should have been a huge hit as well - I don't know how it fared on the UK charts, but it died without a trace in North America. It's been covered a few times since then, but I don't think any version of it has ever charted.

Apparently a Blue Nile album was released last year - it remains unheard by me, but it received fairly positive reviews.

jayaredee said:

It did help Angel rise to #5, though.

A lot of 80s alternative couldn't find a place on U.S. top 40 radio. For example: The Smiths never had a chart single in the U.S. "How Soon Is Now?" should have at least made the bottom 50. It's a shame.

Bonita Applebum: ATCQ, for starters.

namepeace said:

This song charted, but not very well. #56 R&B only.

Axchi696 said:

Into the Groove and Don't Speak were huge number ones in the Uk.

World Party - Ship Of Fools
Horse - Gods Home Movie
Duran Duran - Skin Trade
Michael Hutchence & Bono - Slide Away
Tears For Fears - Jonny Panic and the bible of dreams
The Cranberries - Shattered
Lenny Kravitz - Don't go and put and put a bullet in your head
Talk Talk - Its a shame
Crowded House - Private Universe



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SquirrelMeat said:

Skin Trade was a moderate hit in the U.S. - #39 on the Hot 100.

sextonseven said:

Know-it-all . . .

Axchi696 said:

i think they made up for by people going and buying tragic kingdom instead and selling like 10million copys. the sdtrk to a 1,000 high school freshmen partys as blendermag once said.

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Home-Zero 7
The Mummers Dance -Lorenna Mckinennit

"Don't Speak" was No. 1 for a freakin' long time.