[HOAX] * Donna Summer songs ... how'd they sell ? ...

[remicks]

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Here are Donna's singles in their order of selling success :D :)

Thanks to all who were participatory ..... :D






#1 (tie) - HOT STUFF ……….….…...... 3.2 million
---------- BAD GIRLS .........….…......... 3.2 million
#2 - MACARTHUR PARK .................... 2.8 million
#3 - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ...…..…..... 1.8 million
#4 - I FEEL LOVE .............................. 1.4 million
#5 - LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY ....... 1.3 million
#6 (tie) - LAST DANCE ...........…....... 1.2 million
- --------- WALK AWAY .................... 1.2 million
#7- SPRING AFFAIR ........................ 1.0 million
#8 - DIM ALL THE LIGHTS ...…......... 0.9 million
#9 - I LOVE YOU ...........…................ 0.8 million
#10 (tie) - HEAVEN KNOWS .……..... 0.7 million
-------- ---- ON THE RADIO............... 0.7 million
------------- TRY ME . I KNOW ...….... 0.7 million
#10 - CAN'T WE JUST SIT .........….. . 0.6 million
11 (tie) - COULD IT BE MAGIC …...... 0.4 million
----------- LOVE'S UNKIND ....……...... 0.4 million

TOTAL NUMBER DONNA SUMMER SINGLES SERVED :
………………………………........................ 24.1 million


(There is a catch to this though ......I can't guarantee how reliable these figures actually are …..
I got them from sonicplayer.net/articles/Donna_Summer last August ......

I don't know why, but when I returned to the site recently , this information was no longer there ….. ...... ?)


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[remicks]

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Sorry .... :oops: ..... but upon further review ..... I doubt these figures are correct.

I see their info has been updated .... including eliminating the original assertion that SUNSET PEOPLE charted at #39 in the US ..... a hard feat to accomplish since it was never released as a US single ....

The suggestion that I FEEL LOVE sold 1.4 million and CAN'T WE JUST SIT sold 0.6 million is hard to reconcile , since these are A and B sides of the same single......


This must be why the info has been removed from the page :

http://www.sonicplayer.net/articles/Donna_Summer

which otherwise now contains still interesting info .....


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[markydefad]

remicks,

well there is a chart book by Fred Bronson that does have the Top 20 Donna Summer records in it, among other lists. I bought it yesterday--but forgot to bring it to work. However, the top of the list is exactly the same as the one you posted.....doesn't list the tunes at the bottom (this is based on Billboard charting--not just SALES...so......

I'll be back.

[markydefad]

"The Top 20 Songs of DONNA SUMMER"
(according to Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits book)

1) HOT STUFF
2) BAD GIRLS
3) MacARTHUR PARK
4) NO MORE TEARS (ENOUGH IS ENOUGH)
5) LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY
6) DIM ALL THE LIGHTS
7) SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY
8. LAST DANCE
9) THE WANDERER
10) HEAVEN KNOWS

11) I FEEL LOVE
12) ON THE RADIO
13) LOVE IS IN CONTROL (FINGER ON THE TRIGGER)
14) THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL
15) THERE GOES MY BABY
16) THE WOMAN IN ME
17) COLD LOVE
18. WALK AWAY
19) I LOVE YOU
20) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE

(slanted towards the latter work after she became a star, obviously....she didn't get much radio play between "Love To Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love"....mostly clubplay for the great stuff released between those two)

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Thanks for that info Marky .

I wish there had been a book at Borders that reveals actual sales of these and other songs.

That I FEEL LOVE is not even in Donna's Top 10 is a sad commentary. So far ahead of its time, that one . Nothin' ..... I mean nothin' like it . A radical , music-changing record.

meanwhile how embarrassing to see THE WANDERER above it and in the TOP 10. :( Has that song even once been played anywhere by anyone since ..... never on the radio that's for sure .....

Just look at that list of hits .....nevermind all those additional ones that were exclusive to us clubbers.
Gots ta love Donna !! ..... Her hit list speaks for itself

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