Funny enough, the first artist I thought of when I saw this headline was A-ha. But then I thought, well, The Sun Always Shines... only went to 27 and I wondered if that counted. Obviously it does with your criteria.
In my head, I feel like two Top 10's is more of a "hit" than anything lower. Why? Well, I might not have felt tis way in the…
Funny enough, the first artist I thought of when I saw this headline was A-ha. But then I thought, well, The Sun Always Shines... only went to 27 and I wondered if that counted. Obviously it does with your criteria.
In my head, I feel like two Top 10's is more of a "hit" than anything lower. Why? Well, I might not have felt tis way in the 80s or 90s, but now that 30 to 40 years have passed I am confident that a song from the 80s or 90s that didn't make the Billboard Top 10 is far less likely to be played on the radio these days. (FM or Satellite, etc.) Far less often any way, than something that went Top 10. Basically, the lower it placed on Billboard the less likely you are to hear it.
That will be a good reason to lay them all out and see if your thought was accurate. You might be correct!
And another thing that would be interesting to evaluate would be two "hits" or two "Top 10s" from the same album vs. 2 different albums. I just thought of that when looking at Tracy Chapman's 2-Hit Wonder songs.
Funny enough, the first artist I thought of when I saw this headline was A-ha. But then I thought, well, The Sun Always Shines... only went to 27 and I wondered if that counted. Obviously it does with your criteria.
In my head, I feel like two Top 10's is more of a "hit" than anything lower. Why? Well, I might not have felt tis way in the 80s or 90s, but now that 30 to 40 years have passed I am confident that a song from the 80s or 90s that didn't make the Billboard Top 10 is far less likely to be played on the radio these days. (FM or Satellite, etc.) Far less often any way, than something that went Top 10. Basically, the lower it placed on Billboard the less likely you are to hear it.
I’ll take a look what two top 10 hits returns. I thought if you had two top 10 hits you were likely to have more. But might not be the case
That will be a good reason to lay them all out and see if your thought was accurate. You might be correct!
And another thing that would be interesting to evaluate would be two "hits" or two "Top 10s" from the same album vs. 2 different albums. I just thought of that when looking at Tracy Chapman's 2-Hit Wonder songs.
Yeah the same album idea is interesting. But I had to mapping of the songs to albums and it felt like a pain to figure it out lol
lol I completely understand!