janetDAYZ Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 What are her top 5 international hits? What other singles were the closest to having the global embrace as TA? Im curious bc even tho we know RN -the song is her most recognizable song it technically wasnt like a global hit like TA...is A4U her 2nd biggest internatinal hit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 Why ask questions you already know the answer to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted July 8, 2019 Author Share Posted July 8, 2019 I was saying aside from TA and A4U what other singles would considered her most successful songs GLOBALLY not juss the Hot100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 TTWLG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sacred Prostitute Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 When I Think Of You and If Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenzo88 Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 5 hours ago, Rock & Roll Hall of Game said: TTWLG Oh hush Game! Like you are all knowing in all things Janet!!! This ain’t Janet trivia!!! And where is your trophy ma’am??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 18 minutes ago, Lenzo88 said: Oh hush Game! Like you are all knowing in all things Janet!!! This ain’t Janet trivia!!! And where is your trophy ma’am??? Google boo. Google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bu. Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 The Best Things in Life Are Free Feedback (yes - it’s lowkey remembered more than most her songs here) Let’s Wait Awhile Doesn’t Really Matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EphraimAdamz Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 Together Again, All For You, Scream, Love Will Never Do, Nasty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.C Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 I’m going to answer this factually based on chart positions and certifications 1) Together Again 2) That’s The Way Love Goes 3) All For You 4) What Have You Done For Me Lately? 5 is a tossup. You have Runaway, The Best Things In Life Are Free, When I think of You, Let’s Wait Awhile, Scream, and Got Til It’s gone... Weirdly enough, even though the RN is her most iconic era singles wise in the States, it’s her most ‘local’ out of all her signature eras. It didn’t really produce a worldwide hit, even though Escapade and LWNDWY should have easily stayed the world. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted July 27, 2019 Author Share Posted July 27, 2019 Thats what i always thought was strange how Janet's songs performed well in different markets but may not have been embraced overall, globally. Its like "if its a hit there, then it was a miss over here." type of thing. It still strikes me as odd that it took for her to get to TVR era to produce such an international hit. Soooo many great singles between Control era - janet.era like how tf did she not have more hits across the globe? Like why didnt the RN era perform that well in the UK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 On 7/27/2019 at 5:17 AM, janetDAYZ said: Thats what i always thought was strange how Janet's songs performed well in different markets but may not have been embraced overall, globally. Its like "if its a hit there, then it was a miss over here." type of thing. It still strikes me as odd that it took for her to get to TVR era to produce such an international hit. Soooo many great singles between Control era - janet.era like how tf did she not have more hits across the globe? Like why didnt the RN era perform that well in the UK? that reminds me of how Whitney's "My Love Is Your Love" album was kind of a flop in the U.S. but sold 10 million ww Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted July 29, 2019 Author Share Posted July 29, 2019 18 hours ago, JoeJoe said: that reminds me of how Whitney's "My Love Is Your Love" album was kind of a flop in the U.S. but sold 10 million ww Um.. Joe i believe "My Love Is Your Love" sold like 4 mill in the states (at that time) ...that wasnt considered a flop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 2 hours ago, janetDAYZ said: Um.. Joe i believe "My Love Is Your Love" sold like 4 mill in the states (at that time) ...that wasnt considered a flop MLIYL sold same amount as her previous album.. Why would anyone consider that a flop? Oh... I see the only person who would is Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illi Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 MLIYL could be considered a flop in the sense that it failed to reach the top 10, something surprising for someone of Whitney's stature. As one of her more soulful album, it did punch above the belt internationally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 7 hours ago, janetDAYZ said: Um.. Joe i believe "My Love Is Your Love" sold like 4 mill in the states (at that time) ...that wasnt considered a flop It was certified at 4 million but it actually had only over 2 million in sales and yes it was considered a flop. A huge artist like Whitney selling only 2 million in the US in the 90s. Yup. Velvet Rope sold more than that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illi Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 24 minutes ago, JoeJoe said: It was certified at 4 million but it actually only over 2 million in sales and yes it was considered a flop. A huge artist like Whitney selling only 2 million in the US in the 90s. Yup. Velvet Rope sold more than that Perhaps I didn't have access to all of the music magazines back then but it had a slow start at the worst. It didn't stop her from nabbing a big contract with Arista. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Illi said: Perhaps I didn't have access to all of the music magazines back then but it had a slow start at the worst. It didn't stop her from nabbing a big contract with Arista. that's cause it sold over 10 million ww which was good. IDK how but it did lol. Too bad she never really completed the contract Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 7/29/2019 at 9:56 AM, Illi said: MLIYL could be considered a flop in the sense that it failed to reach the top 10, something surprising for someone of Whitney's stature. As one of her more soulful album, it did punch above the belt internationally. We're not talking about chart position. If the sales ended up being pretty good for the era ...then NUMBERS dont lie. Whitney, was on par with her peers at that time saleswise. Madonna, Janet and Mariah all sold between 3-5 mill (in the states) with their latest projects at that time. Butterfly,Ray Of Light, Your Love Is My Love, and The Velvet Rope sold around the same amount in the states. So whit was not flopping. Not too mention her singles were doing good on the charts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 7/29/2019 at 11:49 AM, JoeJoe said: It was certified at 4 million but it actually had only over 2 million in sales and yes it was considered a flop. A huge artist like Whitney selling only 2 million in the US in the 90s. Yup. Velvet Rope sold more than that Thats no different than ppl considering TVR to be a flop (at the time) cus it wasnt selling like her previous albums...but in the grand scheme of things...TVR ended up not being a "flop". At that point janet,mariah,madonna and whit werent selling MAJOR numvers like they did in the 80s to early 90s but the numbers they were doing in the late 90s were respectable. And lets be clear.. Juss bc an album isnt flying off the shelves in america doesnt mean it wont sell in other markets. So i dont know why you are surprised it sold 10 mill ww. An album can bomb here but blown up in the UK. You think of MJ's "Bad" which didnt even hit diamond in the states during his peak but sold somewhere like 30 mill ww... Now THAT was a shock that Mike couldnt even get a diamond album post Thriller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Let’s think of the times.. An album going #1 didn’t mean much in the 80s & 90s... Madonna didn’t have a #1 album in the 90s and that was her career peak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lutfa Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Well it made her widely known globally and she was highly respected in the EU after that album. And TA is her biggest selling single of all time so I wouldn't call it a flop. Got till its gone sold like 10k in the UK. That's huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 18 hours ago, janetDAYZ said: Thats no different than ppl considering TVR to be a flop (at the time) cus it wasnt selling like her previous albums...but in the grand scheme of things...TVR ended up not being a "flop". At that point janet,mariah,madonna and whit werent selling MAJOR numvers like they did in the 80s to early 90s but the numbers they were doing in the late 90s were respectable. And lets be clear.. Juss bc an album isnt flying off the shelves in america doesnt mean it wont sell in other markets. So i dont know why you are surprised it sold 10 mill ww. An album can bomb here but blown up in the UK. You think of MJ's "Bad" which didnt even hit diamond in the states during his peak but sold somewhere like 30 mill ww... Now THAT was a shock that Mike couldnt even get a diamond album post Thriller. an album doesn't have to fly off the shelves in America to sell ww but Whitney had no hits on that album period. Janet on the other hand did, she just didn't use them in the beginning so i'm not surprised at TVR selling 10 million. Whitney's album i'm very surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 2 hours ago, JoeJoe said: Whitney had no hits on that album period. The delusion. She literally had Three top five hits out of the five songs released 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 18 hours ago, Rock & Roll Hall of Game said: Let’s think of the times.. An album going #1 didn’t mean much in the 80s & 90s... Madonna didn’t have a #1 album in the 90s and that was her career peak 80s was Madonna's peak. She was struggling in the 90s and #1s ALWAYS meant something no matter what decade of music. Still means "something" today. Its just not the only way to determine what a successful project is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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