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Bands who's biggest hit came late in their career?

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Brian Earl Spilner
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4:35p, 1/6/24
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Is there a better example of this than Santana's Smooth?

Shot to stardom in 1969 after Woodstock, with their first #1 hit coming 30 years later after at least two decades of no major hits.



The entire Supernatural album is fantastic. At least five bangers, all of them huge hits.

Bonus trivia, Smooth was the last #1 hit of the 90's and the first of the 00's.
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4:36p, 1/6/24
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Side note, Carlos is a great documentary. Must watch for fans of the band or of that era of rock in general.
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4:41p, 1/6/24
My Santana? Carlos
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"Touch of Grey" by The Grateful Dead was released in 1987.
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In reply to gggmann • 5:32p, 1/6/24
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gggmann said:
"Touch of Grey" by The Grateful Dead was released in 1987.

This was my first thought so I'll go with Scorpions "Wind of Change" in the early 90's.
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Does Aerosmith's crap song from Armageddon count?
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5:58p, 1/6/24
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Yes

Meatloaf - he won't do that
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Brian Earl Spilner
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In reply to 00 • 6:46p, 1/6/24
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That's a good one.
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"You got it" by Roy Orbison.

It wasn't his biggest hit by any means, but it did become a hit upon being released after he died. And it had been years since he had released any other songs that would be considered a hit as an individual artist, I believe.
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7:22p, 1/6/24
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Hurt by Johnny Cash. Not his biggest hit as far as charts go, but it has become one of his most recognizable recordings

Not quite what the original question asked, but feel like it still kinda fits: Tina Turner's entire solo career didn't even take off until she was well into her 40s
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In reply to bluefire579 • 8:48p, 1/6/24
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Hurt by Johnny Cash. Not his biggest hit as far as charts go, but it has become one of his most recognizable recordings

And then NIN went and ripped it off and claimed it as their own.


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8:59p, 1/6/24
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Cher - Believe @ age 52
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song)
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"Invisible Touch" by Genesis in 1986. Maybe it's not late in terms of the band's overall discography ('69-'97), but it is certainly a while after their peak prog rock era with Gabriel and Hackett.
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9:14p, 1/6/24
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Daft Punk with Get Lucky
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In reply to 00 • 9:14p, 1/6/24
00 said:
Does Aerosmith's crap song from Armageddon count?


That gives me an idea for another thread... Bands whose biggest hit is also their worst song.
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9:21p, 1/6/24
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Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World. I'm pretty sure that was his biggest hit was he was in his 60s when he recorded it.
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9:55p, 1/6/24
May or may not qualify, but Brenda Lee hit number 1 last month with Rockin Around the Christmas Tree. She is 78. Song has been around for forever though.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/brenda-lee-rockin-around-the-christmas-tree-number-one-hot-100/

George Michael also hit number one in the UK this season with Last Christmas and he's dead, so there's that.
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Christmas songs should be their own separate category. Also, songs that became huge many years later after being recorded (Kate Bush) aren't the same either.
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10:22p, 1/6/24
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Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

The Cure - as much as it pains me to say it, Friday I'm in Love gets WAY more play than so many of their much better hits

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic is SUPER overrated and overplayed!
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In reply to An L of an Ag • 10:37p, 1/6/24
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An L of an Ag said:
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

The Cure - as much as it pains me to say it, Friday I'm in Love gets WAY more play than so many of their much better hits

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic is SUPER overrated and overplayed!


Beastie Boys only top 10 hit Fight For Your Right.
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Good topic idea, OP. I'm kind of stumped. Feel like most of the bands/artists I listen to don't have a song that qualifies more than other ones mentioned here.

Smooth by Santana IMO is the hands down #1. For some of us of a certain age, we didn't even know Santana pre Smooth and that song blew up big.
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In reply to HollywoodBQ • 11:35p, 1/6/24
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HollywoodBQ said:
Cher - Believe @ age 52
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song)


Another great pick.
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Starship had multiple #1's in 1986-87...not sure which one would be classified as their biggest hit, but "We Built This City" is certainly the one which brought the most ridicule.
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12:06a, 1/7/24
Chris Cornell eclipsed Soundgarden's 1994 hit "Black Hole Sun" in 2002 with the Audioslave song "Like a Stone"
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Although it wasn't their biggest selling single ever, the Beach Boys have the distinction of going 22 years between #1 hits. Their last #1 hits in the States during their initial run were Sloop John B (1.8 million sales), Wouldn't It Be Nice (1.4 million) and Good Vibrations (2.9 million). In 1988, Kokomo hit #1 with 1.9 million sales.
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John Anderson had his two biggest hits (Seminole Wind and Straight Tequila Night) late in his long career.
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In reply to Bruce Almighty • 6:06a, 1/7/24
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Bruce Almighty said:
An L of an Ag said:
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

The Cure - as much as it pains me to say it, Friday I'm in Love gets WAY more play than so many of their much better hits

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic is SUPER overrated and overplayed!


Beastie Boys only top 10 hit Fight For Your Right.
I was going to say that Sabotage was overplayed.

It was cool in the Star Trek movie one time. Just like I was in a bar in San Francisco and somebody put Paul Revere on the jukebox.

That was awesome, once.
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AC/DC had their first Top 10 single in 1975 but their highest charting single was Thunderstruck in 1990.
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Ozzy's biggest hit single was Mama I'm Coming Home in 1991 but Iron Man with Black Sabbath was slightly higher in the charts in 1971.
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REM's "Losing my Religion" from Out of Time…..their seventh album.
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In reply to HollywoodBQ • 7:51a, 1/7/24
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HollywoodBQ said:
Cher - Believe @ age 52
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Believe_(Cher_song)


Cher has had chart-topping hits in seven straight decades. (1960s-2020s)
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7:54a, 1/7/24
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Roy Orbison with You Got It. Still don't like that song.
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The Bee Gees had several songs hit #1 on the US charts, but their biggest hits were off of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack which was 12 years and 15 studio albums into their discography.
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In reply to deadhead aggie • 11:58a, 1/7/24
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deadhead aggie said:
REM's "Losing my Religion" from Out of Time…..their seventh album.
REM is a weird one because for their first 4 or 5 albums they weren't even trying for commercial success.

I took Pop Song '89 for example to be a parody of what would happen if they were trying to be commercially successful.
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In reply to AustinAg2K • 12:29p, 1/7/24
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00 said:
Does Aerosmith's crap song from Armageddon count?


That gives me an idea for another thread... Bands whose biggest hit is also their worst song.


Oooh I have one. Jump by David Lee Roth era Van Halen.
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