best run of 3 or more Hot 100 #1 singles from one album

Tempted to vote Monica.

yeah that's definitely one of my favorites

lotta these there's one song i haven't heard or can't remember so it's tough to call w/o further listening

Supremes or Saturday Night Fever, pretty sure checking the few other songs i don't remember wdn't change my mind much

Abdul and Aguilera come off surprisingly good here

I surprised myself, but my favourite run was Mariah so I had to go for it!

Voted Madonna. Three of my favorites from her whole catalogue came like a triple punch.

Yeah, it's between Madonna and Janet for me.

*sigh* again.

really? "Open Your Heart" is the only one i'm into at all and even that is 2nd tier imo (xpost)

it's so crazy that there were THIRTEEN number ones off of three 1987 albums

Whitney Houston (1987) Whitney
Michael Jackson (1987) Bad
George Michael (1987) Faith

Toss in The Joshua Tree, and you basically had the state of radio in 1987.

Janet easily for me.

"Open Your Heart" these days is my favorite Madonna uptempo number, "Live to Tell" my favorite ballad. I have more time for "Papa Don't Preach" these days but meh.

My finalists:

George Michael
Toni Braxton
Janet

In my universe Bad and Whitney occupy the same popular space: massive hits that with a couple of exceptions no one cares about, especially in light of what the artists did before and after.

"Black Cat" is the biggest wrench in my auto-voting Janet.

too bad Wilson Phillips' "Impulsive" didn't hit #1. I considered polling their singles the other day.

In my universe Bad and Whitney occupy the same popular space: massive hits that with a couple of exceptions no one cares about, especially in light of what the artists did before and after.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, October 29, 2012 11:04 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh well let's not start the 'new jersey' convo again but yeah

Naw man Live to Tell is amazing (xp to sd)

I was this close to alluding to the New Jersey thread.

(see what I just did)

Anyways, for me this is Paula, with Janet second, then George, Justin, and Madonna

Cartoon cat ftw

The Whitney self-titled is damn tempting.

Should be the Whitney Houston self-titled; kinda hate the Whitney followup.

Replace "What goes around" with "Rock your body" and I'd vote Justin Timberlake

Can't decide between Janet or Supremes otherwise

Cool poll btw

not that it would change the results at all, but i just realized the site i pulled this list off of missed an album:

Rihanna (2010) Loud
What's My Name?, Only Girl (In The World), S&M

Good Girl Gone Bad also had three #1s but two were off the deluxe edition so not gonna sweat that

I have a soft spot for Wham! too.

Oh yeah you know what? That three song run from Help! is p decent.

yeah that's def in my top 5

although the handful from the pre-MTV era feel like such a different deal that i almost excluded them from the poll

I never listen to "Yesterday" willingly :(

George michael

voted Black Eyed Peas

The "Help!" or "Magical Mystery Tour" trios are great, but, I mean . . .

Various Artists (1977) Saturday Night Fever
How Deep is Your Love, Stayin' Alive, Night Fever, If I Can't Have You

I was surprised Thriller wasn't on here, but then I checked and "The Girl Is Mine" peaked at #2. Anyone know what song cock-blocked it at #1?

voted Black Eyed Peas

Good one!

I was surprised Thriller wasn't on here, but then I checked and "The Girl Is Mine" peaked at #2. Anyone know what song cock-blocked it at #1?

"Mickey" or "Maneater" (Hall admits that MJ based the rhythm of "Billie Jean" on "I Can Go For That").

how do you "admit" what someone else did

Okay, I'd take both those songs over "The Girl Is Mine". Still a bit surprising.

On reflection I'm voting Supremes.

how do you "admit" what someone else did

by typing too quickly?

haha ok

"The First Night" is so damn good

I never listen to "Yesterday" willingly :(

I best appreciate it when sung by a strolling restaurant guitarist.

By the way, "Yesterday" wasn't on Help! at the time.

I'll take the sublime run from Fever.

"Bad" has a string of three #1's and "Thriller" didn't? Surprising.

has had

Tempted to go with SNF but there are a lot of good choices here.

Voted for Saturday Night Fever between SNF, Madonna, JT.

usher, janet & toni

my initial thought, before deciding to do this poll as is, was to ask which was the best LAST #1 out of these runs? "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" feels like one of the only super memorable ones, most of the others seemed to benefit from momentum

Yeah, tho fwiw "Everything She Wants" is my favorite of that Wham run.

I'm surprised the third Wilson Phillips #1 is "You're In Love" and not "Impulsive"

not that I like either song mind you

Alfred otm about Impulsive being their best single

that is super OffTM

that is their drippiest song with the worst singer in the group on lead

The guitars and chorus bring it.

I admit to being irrationally angry with this song because I always thought Wendy was the most attractive member and it really pissed me off that she was the worst singer

I also thought that Wendy was the most attractive until I saw Chyna in the Invisible Kid and then promptly changed my mind

The one who sounds and looks like Graham Nash was the cutest.

wendy was totally the hottest one. i remember some dude in english class doing this thing on how 'release me' was about a woman whose boyfriend was trying to pressure her into having an abortion, some real 'actually evangelicals are the REAL feminists' stuff, to which my rebuttal was 'you are an idiot'.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Milli Vanilli (1989) Girl You Know It's True 4

Nobody had anything to say about this album itt, surprised to see 4 votes for it.

Bad should have been higher.

tbh the Milli Vanilli trio is pretty strong, at least in the sense that they're all pretty equally catchy and if you like one you prob like them all

Not saying they weren't, though like I mentioned upthread "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" was actually #1 and not "Girl You Know It's True" and that's a weak link IMO. I wonder if they would've had the same votes, but nobody talked about them.

ahhh wow yeah you're right! my fault for not doublechecking the info before i posted it i guess. pretty weird that some song i've never heard hit #1 and not arguably their most famous song.

'girl you know it's true' is obv the best milli vanilli single but i actually love 'girl i'm gonna miss you', total end of summer camp 'I PROMISE I'LL WRITE' melodrama (um, i would guess). never cared for by-buh-by-by by-buh-by-by baby don't forget my number.

all the girls I knew then loved "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You." I can't separate it and Madonna's "Cherish."

madonna apparently hates 'cherish' now, regards it as stupid and corny. explains alot.

dag

Madonna in inaccurate quality control shocker

she also hates "Material Girl"

i could never tell how much that was about her hating the song or if it was mainly that she hated being called 'the material girl'

Madonna reasonably OTM in both cases. I wonder how she feels about Erotica these days.

I love "Cherish" I don't care what she says. "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is a pretty forgettable (no pun!) carbon copy of "Girl You Know It's True".

KATY PERRY SHUTOUT

I love "Material Girl"!

KATY PERRY SHUTOUT

― cruel silver of hope (Eazy), Tuesday, November 6, 2012 1:49 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she was just in over her head, I always knew she'd sink right to the bottom

justice

xp Nah, I bet she's a great swimmer

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/285/margaretnolanwithwilfre.jpg

I love "Material Girl"!

― crüt, Monday, November 5, 2012 10:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ditto. the bling bling sounds!

Madonna OTM re: "Cherish", I have despised that song since the day it was released

are you evil DJP?

there's a good DJP?

haha I was gonna say

i like cherish a lot. it's easier when i ignore the lyrics.

'cherish' + 'dear jessie' into 'oh father' is some sublime shit. fuck it i'm putting like a prayer on right now.

wish "Love Song" got more affection

man i'm listening to the whole thing again for the first time in a very long time and 'love song' really is MUCH better than i remembered. always thought it was fine but a throwaway, but it sounded great this time. 'til death do us part' such a great deep cut, elvis costello tried to write this song three or four times on imperial bedroom. plus that dinky steel guitar solo!

She's really at the top of her vocal and lyrical game on "Til Death..." -- those switches from spoken word to sung lyrics.

Vanilli got 4 and Katy got 0 lololol

oh man I'd forgotten how much I love the original "Express Yourself"

WTF apparently I have never listened to this album before because I had NO IDEA about "Love Song"!!!!!!!!!!

I'm with you on the original "Express Yourself". "Love Song" OTOH sounds like a Prince song on a Madonna album.

My favorite moment on the album is on "Love Song":

"Embrasse-moi"
"What?"

hahahaha Madonna's old foghorn voice on "Oh Father", man I missed that braying instrument

which version of "Keep It Together" do you prefer, dan – the single remix or album version?

single mix, because I always want to sing "however do you want me/however do you need me" over it

jfc what is she doing to her throat on "Pray For Spanish Eyes"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha "Act of Contrition"

hahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

coke was involved in this, y/n

and Prince.

Like a Prayer is an awesome album mainly for the songs mentioned itt.