https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4aiPxbDdcM
Wyclef ft. The Rock & Melky Sedeck - It Doesn't Matter (#3 UK, did not chart on Hot 100)
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 01:00 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6auk1TkGtVQ
Ice Cube - You Can Do It (#2 UK, #35 US)
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 01:01 (fourteen years ago)
IT DOESN'T MATTER
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:10 (fourteen years ago)
IF YOU JUST BOUGHT A FRESH BENTLEY
― calumerio, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:18 (fourteen years ago)
IT DOESN'T MATTER!
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:36 (fourteen years ago)
Move on up by Curtis Mayfield.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 11:52 (fourteen years ago)
Mj - earth song
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 12:22 (fourteen years ago)
Just about everything by P.J. Proby
Just about everything by the Beach Boys from 1967-72, i.e. "Break Away"
Just about everything by Scott Walker (who's lived in the UK for the last several decades but is an American expat)
― Lee626, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:59 (fourteen years ago)
did people buy Fun Lovin' Criminals records in the USA ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)
without checking: the scissor sisters
― so brycey (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:05 (fourteen years ago)
Kings of Leon
― Number None, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:07 (fourteen years ago)
Farley Jackmaster Funk - Love Can't Turn Around
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:09 (fourteen years ago)
Steve Silk Hurley - Jack Your Body
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:10 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.shugarecords.com/images/records/e36570ef-4335-4013-97ef-5bfa1d019226-0.JPG
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:10 (fourteen years ago)
m.o.p.'s ante up & cold as ice were top ten in UK, did not chart in hot 100.
prob most public enemy too
― zvookster, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 15:03 (fourteen years ago)
I was gonna say "You Can Do It" was huge, but that might be west coast-specific.
― bed bath and beyoncé (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:45 (fourteen years ago)
huge here*
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Starks_-_TTABEFTBOU.jpg
― AWeAreVEV0 (Spectrist), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:49 (fourteen years ago)
The Fun Lovin' Criminals - in general.
― (｡◕‿‿◕｡) (ENBB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:50 (fourteen years ago)
"You Can Do It" was also huge in Boston
― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 18:55 (fourteen years ago)
At what position did Gnarls Barkley peak in the US?
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:05 (fourteen years ago)
"Crazy" hit #2
― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:08 (fourteen years ago)
Ah, so a bigger hit in the UK, but not significantly.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:09 (fourteen years ago)
River Deep, Mountain High
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:42 (fourteen years ago)
first 3 or 4 Blondie singles
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:45 (fourteen years ago)
kelly rowland - work
(#4 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:47 (fourteen years ago)
literally every single by the strokes, but let's just pick one...
"12:51"
(#7 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:48 (fourteen years ago)
beyonce - "green light"
(#12 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:51 (fourteen years ago)
also this one always baffled/angered me
st. lunatics - batter up
(#28 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:53 (fourteen years ago)
usher - u-turn
(#16 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:57 (fourteen years ago)
& weirdly a good number of early jay-z singles
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 21:59 (fourteen years ago)
missy elliott - beep me 911
(#14 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
missy elliott - hit em wit da hee
(#25 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
missy elliott ft eve - 4 my people
(#5 in the UK, did not chart in the US)
― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage (#4 in UK, didn't chart in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:02 (fourteen years ago)
Break Machine - Street Dance (#3 in UK, ??? in US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:07 (fourteen years ago)
Mantronix - Got to Have Your Love (#4 in UK, ??? in US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:09 (fourteen years ago)
How did this do in the USA?
― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
Laurie Anderson - O Superman (#2 in UK, didn't place in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
no one in america except aging club kids has any idea who steve silk hurley is.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:19 (fourteen years ago)
it's pretty fair to say that any american dance producer not named richard melville hall charted higher in the uk than at home.
Suzi Quatro - Devil Gate Drive (#1 in UK, didn't chart in the US)
(she had a bunch of other huge singles here too)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:20 (fourteen years ago)
Richard Melville Hall charted higher in the US? Often?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:21 (fourteen years ago)
Inner City?
Also, not UK but this Lil Kim track
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)
Wasn't "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus like MASSIVE in the UK?
― phil-two, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:25 (fourteen years ago)
And Marcus Schulz and Deadmau5.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:26 (fourteen years ago)
Grandmaster Melle Mel - White Lines (#7 in UK, #47 in US R&B/hip-hop chart)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:27 (fourteen years ago)
Fatman Scoop - Be Faithful (#1 in UK, #112 in US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:29 (fourteen years ago)
Wasn't "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus like MASSIVE in the UK?― phil-two, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
― phil-two, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 11:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
yep. ditto their follow-up.
― so brycey (history mayne), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:32 (fourteen years ago)
OPM - Heaven is a Half-Pipe
did that do anything in the US?
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:34 (fourteen years ago)
shit no.
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:34 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROq4YFsiP1YSlim Whitman - Rose Marie (UK #1, only made it to #4 on the US Country chart)
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 23:47 (fourteen years ago)
make that 11 weeks at #1
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 23:50 (fourteen years ago)
Weezer play Teenage Dirtbag at their UK shows now. They don't introduce it as a cover.
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 23:57 (fourteen years ago)
^ fantastic if true
And weren't Daphne & Celeste american?
the two girls, Karen & Celeste, were American, but "Daphne & Celeste" was English IIRC
― undeɹrated ærosm?th b∞tlegs I have pwned (sic), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:10 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XqHy2GCMtM&feature=related
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:16 (fourteen years ago)
"...takin' it back to 2000!"
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
#14 in the UK charts, didn't chart at all in the states
― messiahwannabe, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 03:44 (fourteen years ago)
Lilys - Nanny in Manhattan
Right?
― Evan, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 05:46 (fourteen years ago)
Scatman John: "Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)"
#3 in the UK charts, #1 in many other European countries, #60 in the USA.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:03 (fourteen years ago)
Weezer play Teenage Dirtbag at their UK shows now. They don't introduce it as a cover.― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:57 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
― Colin Allstations (PaulTMA), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:57 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark
hahahaha ok that's brilliant, kind of justifies weezer's existence
― so brycey (history mayne), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:08 (fourteen years ago)
Well, their name sounds so much like "Wheatus", I guess no-one's realised.
Well, not no-one, clearly...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:11 (fourteen years ago)
D Train: "You're the One for Me"
Originally #30 in the UK charts, then 3 years later the remix made it to #15. Neither version charted in the US (In fact D Train had 5 top 100 songs in the UK, but only one in the US.)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:15 (fourteen years ago)
John Larkin was an American but "Scatman John" was a European project really.
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:17 (fourteen years ago)
Jocelyn Brown: "Somebody Else's Guy"
#13 in the UK, #75 in the US.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:19 (fourteen years ago)
Manhattan Transfer - Chanson D'Amour (#1 in UK, zilch in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:21 (fourteen years ago)
Speaking of Moby, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, he's only ever had one single in the US top 100. Contrast that to his 23 singles in the UK top 100, and he may actually be the biggest example of this phenomenon.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:32 (fourteen years ago)
Well, that's what I thought!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:34 (fourteen years ago)
RATM - Killing In The Name
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
Does Jimi Hendrix count here?
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:36 (fourteen years ago)
Terence Trent D'Arby - If You Let Me Stay (#7 in UK, #68 in US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:38 (fourteen years ago)
Salt-n-Pepa - Twist and Shout (#4 in UK, didn't chart in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:49 (fourteen years ago)
Terence Trent D'Arby - If You Let Me Stay (#7 in UK, #68 in US)― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:38 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
i had thought he was british
― so brycey (history mayne), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:53 (fourteen years ago)
noooooooh.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:57 (fourteen years ago)
As per a lot of american artists that had some fame over here, they came over as part of the US army contingent, liked it, stayed or came back.
Well, him and Geno Washington, anyway.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:58 (fourteen years ago)
i don't think he counts as an American artist in the strict sense, I'm sure his career started over here
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:58 (fourteen years ago)
In the strict sense that he's not American, or not an artist?
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 09:59 (fourteen years ago)
Beastie Boys - She's On It (#10 in UK, didn't chart in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:02 (fourteen years ago)
De La Soul - Magic Number (#7 in UK, didn't chart in the US)
Jonathan Richman - Egyptian Reggae (#5 in the UK)
Also Roadrunner (#11) + Morning of Our Lives (#29). I'm assuming these didn't truoble the US charts!
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:15 (fourteen years ago)
Is there a nice US hits database that works like Everyhit.com?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:16 (fourteen years ago)
Don't know, it'd be a shame if there wasn't. Everyhit is genius.
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:19 (fourteen years ago)
Seems that Everyhit packed in in Feb this year, judging by the number ones list.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:24 (fourteen years ago)
Billboard should do it, but I don't know if they do. Wouldn't be that difficult to do surely?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:25 (fourteen years ago)
Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (#10 in UK, straight down the shitter in the US)
― brian da facepalma (NickB), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:26 (fourteen years ago)
Billboard sort of has a database, except it's incomplete and plagued by inaccuracies, just like AMG's. For the UK, this is the best chart site I've ever found:
http://www.chartstats.com/index.php
― moonlightingstranger, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:33 (fourteen years ago)
Swans, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and "Saved" – #85 and #96 respectively in the UK chart, failed to chart in the US
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:42 (fourteen years ago)
kelis?
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:27 (fourteen years ago)
Orson: No Tomorrow
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:32 (fourteen years ago)
Prince - Sexy MF (#4 in the UK, #66 in the US)
― Quantum of Pie (NickB), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:33 (fourteen years ago)
"did people buy Fun Lovin' Criminals records in the USA ?"
I bought one :(
― errant flynn, Friday, 22 July 2011 09:35 (fourteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-blfPCOeLQ0
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:40 (fourteen years ago)
Bobbie Gentry, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" : #1 in UK; not put on a single in the US (if that counts)
― Josefa, Friday, 22 July 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
In which case "I'll Be Waiting" by Diana Ross might also count.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:58 (fourteen years ago)
"I'll Be Waiting" was a single in the US, but it only got to #63 (#1 in the UK), so that's a good one.
Even better is Diana Ross's "Chain Reaction" (1985) which was also a UK #1 but only got to #95 in the US. As an American, I never even knew this song existed until very recently. It has the kind of utterly retro Motown sound that British people seem to like and Americans don't.
― Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2011 05:07 (fourteen years ago)
'concrete schoolyard' by jurassic 5
35 in the uk, nowhere in the us
http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/know.gif
― we started this punning display name shit (history mayne), Sunday, 14 August 2011 14:37 (fourteen years ago)
I'd say it was kind of mock retro. Yes, it had a Motown feel to it, but it also had synths, drum machine and the Gibb brothers' very characteristic backing vocals in the background.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:34 (fourteen years ago)
I'm staggered that this wasn't a hit in the USA.
― My heart goes out to the people of platitudes (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:35 (fourteen years ago)
srsly. tho im also surprised it is as recent as 1985. the retro feel fooled me.
― you cant care about popular culture right now and not partake in (history mayne), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:37 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah I thought it was a 60s song until quite recently.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 14 August 2011 21:30 (fourteen years ago)
lol @ me starting this thread one night, forgetting to check for responses the next day, and not seeing the dozens of posts that followed until like a month later
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:56 (fourteen years ago)