{"id":26,"date":"2004-05-15T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp\/2005\/05\/15\/what-are-the-most-popular-songsalbums\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T02:05:49","slug":"what-are-the-most-popular-songsalbums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/2004\/05\/15\/what-are-the-most-popular-songsalbums\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the most popular songs\/albums?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have used the results of several polls including pre-Other People’s Songs<\/cite> releases. Over 1500 votes have been pseudo-scientifically combined to produce the following table. Points indicate relative popularity.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Best Single\/Song<\/th>\nPoints<\/th>\n   <\/th>\nBest Album<\/th>\nPoints<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\t1\t <\/td>\n\tA Little Respect\t<\/td>\n\t103\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t1\t <\/td>\n\tThe Innocents\t<\/td>\n\t193\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t2\t <\/td>\n\tAlways\t<\/td>\n\t74\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t2\t <\/td>\n\tChorus\t<\/td>\n\t190\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t3\t <\/td>\n\tFingers & Thumbs\t<\/td>\n\t59\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t3\t <\/td>\n\tErasure\t<\/td>\n\t178\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t4\t <\/td>\n\tRock Me Gently\t<\/td>\n\t51\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t4\t <\/td>\n\tI Say I Say I Say\t<\/td>\n\t117\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t5\t <\/td>\n\tBlue Savannah\t<\/td>\n\t42\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t5\t <\/td>\n\tWild!\t<\/td>\n\t95\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t6\t <\/td>\n\tSometimes\t<\/td>\n\t41  <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t6\t <\/td>\n\tCowboy\t<\/td>\n\t83\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t7\t <\/td>\n\tRun to the Sun\t<\/td>\n\t33\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t7\t <\/td>\n\tLoveboat\t<\/td>\n\t53\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t8\t <\/td>\n\tLove is the Rage\t<\/td>\n\t33\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t8\t <\/td>\n\tPop!\t<\/td>\n\t41\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t9\t <\/td>\n\tOh l’Amour\t<\/td>\n\t30\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t9\t <\/td>\n\tWonderland\t<\/td>\n\t34\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t10\t <\/td>\n\tLove to Hate You\t<\/td>\n\t30\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t10\t <\/td>\n\tThe Circus\t<\/td>\n\t22\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t11\t <\/td>\n\tAlien\t<\/td>\n\t30\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t11\t <\/td>\n\tThe Two Ring Circus\t<\/td>\n\t19\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t12\t <\/td>\n\tAm I Right?\t<\/td>\n\t26\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t12\t <\/td>\n\tCrackers International\t<\/td>\n\t10\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t13\t <\/td>\n\tChorus\t<\/td>\n\t26\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n\t13\t <\/td>\n\tAbba-esque\t<\/td>\n\t0\t <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\t14\t <\/td>\n\tVictim of Love\t<\/td>\n\t24\t <\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

A Little Respect<\/cite> has topped these polls since not long after it was released. It’s probably the<\/strong> favourite Erasure song.<\/p>\n

By the way, the three least<\/em> favourite songs in polls tend to be: La Gloria<\/cite>, No GDM<\/cite> and 65000<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have used the results of several polls including pre-Other People’s Songs releases. Over 1500 votes have been pseudo-scientifically combined to produce the following table. Points indicate relative popularity. Best Single\/Song Points     Best Album Points 1   A Little Respect 103   1   The Innocents 193   2   Always 74   2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/erasure\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}