Instead, “Cold Hearted” became Paula Abdul’s third straight #1 hit. If “Straight Up” hadn’t gone anywhere, then “Cold Hearted” easily could’ve been just the second-to-last song on some choreographer’s flop album. After “Straight Up” and “ Forever Your Girl” both reached #1, Paula Abdul still had more.
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After the dizzy success of “ Straight Up,” though, people figured out that Paula Abdul had made an album full of bangers. It took a while for Abdul’s debut album Forever Your Girl to get off the ground. Paula Abdul’s pop star reign wasn’t long, and people made jokes about it for years afterwards, but she understood that fundamental truth. In that scenario, you’ll be in a much better position if you’ve got a few more songs that could, at least theoretically, become the highlight of some people’s nights. But let’s say you do have one song that sneaks through and finds an audience and blows up. What you can do is make sure that every song on your album slaps. You can work and plan and strategize all day, and the odds say that your record will probably still end up as a forgotten relic. Pop-chart success is a matter of timing, of tiny shifts in the cultural zeitgeist that can’t be predicted and maybe can’t even be perceived in the moment. There’s no marketing plan to ensure that an album will catch on, that a bunch of its songs will land on the charts.
You can’t engineer an album that’ll be guaranteed to spin off multiple hit songs, especially if you’re a debuting artist. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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