Single That Saved Someone's Career

by **Merci** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:45 pm

inspired by the other.. yeah

P!nk - U + Ur Hand saved her ass in the US
Jennifer Lopez - On the Floor
Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over

just a few

by **summer** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:48 pm

Someone told me not long ago that Yellow saved Coldplay

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:05 pm

But Yellow was the first song most people heard from Coldplay, it was from their debut :lol:

While many say We Belong Together, I think It's Like That was the one that started the comeback and got people excited about her again. TEOM was already selling well with ILT as the main single... WBT just took things to a new level.

Run-DMC's "Walk This Way" saved Aerosmith and arguably launched them to bigger success than they'd ever seen before that era (especially in Europe where they were practically unknown in the 1970s). The song and video introduced them to a new audience and generation and then the decade that followed was arguably their most successful period.

by **Merci** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:08 pm

JustForMe wrote:Someone told me not long ago that Yellow saved Coldplay

Yellow made them, didn't save them

by **summer** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:10 pm

NothingFails wrote:But Yellow was the first song most people heard from Coldplay, it was from their debut

That person's point was that first single they released wasn't doing very well. But when Yellow arrived, it saved them from fading away into oblivion.

No idea tbh. :lol:

by **biscuits** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:13 pm

NothingFails wrote:While many say We Belong Together, I think It's Like That was the one that started the comeback and got people excited about her again. TEOM was already selling well with ILT as the main single... WBT just took things to a new level.

Precisely. 'It's Like That' is the mother of all comeback singles. Absolutely saved MC's career.

by **biscuits** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:14 pm

Madonna - Hung Up

I know some will disagree with me but 'American Life' era was a flop, and this song definitely saved her career, especially on an international level.

by **Lioha** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:16 pm

Cher's Believe
Kylie's Spinning Around

by **Timmy94** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:19 pm

Merci wrote:Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over

1. it was David Guetta's song not Kelly's
2. her 3rd album kind of flopped: It only sold 3 times of its debut sales

I'm also doubting "On The Floor": The album didn't do well and the following singles, didn't do well. Saving singles should be which make artists have long-lasting success again and not just 1 single...

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Robbie Williams - Angels
Kid Rock - All Summer Long
Madonna - Hung Up (at least in Europe)
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Cher - Believe
Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It

by **biscuits** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:20 pm

Lioha wrote:Kylie's Spinning Around

Oh, absolutely!

by **Merci** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:21 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
Merci wrote:Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over
1. it was David Guetta's song not Kelly's

it saved her career, nevertheless!

LAST.FM · by **Jonathan** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:25 pm

Heart - What About Love
Alice Cooper - Poison
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Train - Hey, Soul Sister
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger

by **Timmy94** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:29 pm

jkkdark wrote:Train - Hey, Soul Sister

You mean in the US? Because in Europe, they weren't known before and so the song just started their career here.

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:30 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
jkkdark wrote:Train - Hey, Soul Sister
You mean in the US? Because in Europe, they weren't known before and so the song just started their career here.

Train is the perfect example of this. Their 2006 album was a disaster and not one single from it even made the hot 100. Hey Soul Sister was as much of a "comeback" as Believe or What's Love Got To Do With It

by **Timmy94** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:36 pm

This wasn't exactly the answer to my question :lol:

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by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 7:42 pm

Timmy94 wrote:This wasn't exactly the answer to my question !

well they may have been nobody in Europe, but in the US it completely resurrected them. Everyone thought they were dead and en route to doing tours with Gin Blossoms and Vertical Horizon, Hey Soul Sister put them back on top and they've had a few hits since.

by **stevyy** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:54 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
Robbie Williams - Angels

very true and who would have thought the song could win the Special Brit Award for being the best song of the past 25 years?

by **naughty** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:34 pm

Enrique Iglesias - I like it (US)

by **Merci** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:51 pm

Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

their contract was practically on it's way to the shredder :lol:

by **Timmy94** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 10:57 pm

naughty wrote:Enrique Iglesias - I like it (US)

Are you sure? Tonight was a huge success (which I relate to the Pitbull-like sound) but the other singles didn't do well and the album also wasn't a burner.
I think Enrique and J.Lo. can be put in the same category: Former latin artists that had huge careers and now try house sounds but aren't completely there where they were, have quite successful singles by following a certain hit formula which allows them to have hits but not a whole successful era...

by **Play** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:05 pm

Suspicious Minds also was a return to success for Elvis Presley and earned him his 17th #1.

Eminem also had a rebirth in popularity thanks to Love The Way You Lie.

by **Timmy94** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:13 pm

Play wrote:Eminem also had a rebirth in popularity thanks to Love The Way You Lie.

But this thread is not about a comeback but when your career has been really dead and Eminem's last album has been succès d'estime (with 2x Platinum in the US and top 3 placements all around the world) so I don't think he should be named here.
Neither Elvis: Hasn't he been constantly high during his career?

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:17 pm

Play wrote:Suspicious Minds also was a return to success for Elvis Presley and earned him his 17th #1.

Elvis was already on his way back in late 68/early 69 after the "Comeback Special" and songs like If I Can Dream and In The Ghetto putting him back on the upper reaches of the charts, Suspicious Minds just put him back at #1.

I think in the US, Shake Your Body Down To The Ground and in the UK Blame It On The Boogie off the same album were undoubtedly important in planting the seeds for the rest of Michael Jackson's career and establishing him as a viable adult in the music industry. The Jackson 5/The Jacksons were still managing hits here and there throughout the 70's, but those two singles in 1978-1979 were the ones IMO that paved the way for what was to come with Off The Wall and then of course everything else that followed.

by **NothingFails** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:24 pm

Timmy94 wrote:Neither Elvis: Hasn't he been constantly high during his career?

By 1966-1968, Elvis' career was washed up. Outside of one gospel album, every album between 1956-1965 went top 10, by 1968 he saw the Speedway soundtrack peaking at #82. Elvis was still "famous" but in the era where people like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Simon And Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, etc... were the most relevant artists around, Elvis was past his prime and looked like a joke. In 1968-1969 he completely regenerated his career because he put effort into restoring himself, and while he never was as big as he was in the 50's and early 60's again, he never was as low as he was in 1967 or 1968 again in his lifetime.

by **Play** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 11:32 pm

Timmy94 wrote:
Play wrote:Eminem also had a rebirth in popularity thanks to Love The Way You Lie.
But this thread is not about a comeback but when your career has been really dead and Eminem's last album has been succès d'estime (with 2x Platinum in the US and top 3 placements all around the world) so I don't think he should be named here.
Neither Elvis: Hasn't he been constantly high during his career?

The each example I give was about a falling popularity and realising materials that are not up to the standard of previous works.

Before LTWYL Eminem tried to make a comeback with Relapse and it was nowhere near the quality of his former works. It did not reach 2Million in the US after Recovery (which was succesful mainly thanks to LTWYL) put Eminem back to top.

About Elvis; he was on a consistent decline record after record and he was lost in unsuccesful movies.

Wikipedia wrote:Shortly before Christmas 1966, more than seven years since they first met, Presley proposed to Priscilla Beaulieu. They were married on May 1, 1967, in a brief ceremony in their suite at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas.The flow of formulaic movies and assembly-line soundtracks rolled on. It was not until October 1967, when the Clambake soundtrack LP registered record low sales for a new Presley album, that RCA executives recognized a problem. "By then, of course, the damage had been done", as historians Connie Kirchberg and Marc Hendrickx put it. "Elvis was viewed as a joke by serious music lovers and a has-been to all but his most loyal fans."

Then there came The '68 Comeback Special and he was back on the map again. Suspicious Minds was the hit that he needed so desperately for a long time....

Wikipedia wrote:"Suspicious Minds" was widely regarded as the single that returned Presley's career success, following '68 Comeback Special.