charts discussion Biggest Female Smash Hit 1-2 Punches, 2000s-2020s

[fridayteenage]

Strongest hit duos for a female album each decade on the Hot 100:

2000s: 37 top 10 weeks, Just Dance/Poker Face (The Fame)
36 We Belong Together/Shake It Off (Emancipation of Mimi)
35 Since U Been Gone/Behind These Hazel Eyes (Breakaway)

 

2010s: 41 top 10 weeks, Shake It Off/Blank Space (1989)
41 Bodak Yellow/I Like It (Invasion of Privacy)
40 Rolling in the Deep/Someone Like You (21)

 

2020s: 61 top 10 weeks, Don't Start Now/Levitating (Future Nostalgia)
54 Kill Bill/Snooze (SOS)
41+ Espresso/Please Please Please (Short N Sweet), bumping out sour

 

Big eras these days increasingly focus on 1-2 huge hits, so the numbers keep climbing each decade. Future Nostalgia and Invasion of Privacy didn't even have a 3rd top 10. All of the above won a genre album Grammy so far; wonder how far Sabrina's album will go.

[chiliam]

Surprise to not see Cali girl/ Teenage dream or Firework/ET on this list.

 

We belong together is the biggest single hit

Just dance/Poker face is the biggest dual in the time they released 

 

Shake it off/Blank Space vs Rolling/Someone like you is endurance classic dual

[suburbannature]

Now do top 2 weeks 

[tost1]

Gaga bigger than Mariah, why?

[Nightingale]

Those Breakaway singles should have gone #1. BTHE being the only single there that didn't even go top 5 and got all those top 10 weeks

Edited October 8 by Nightingale

[BowWow]

Gaga and Adele in terms of pure memorability and inseparability from a European perspective

 

 2020s still up for grabs but unfair to Olivia that DL and G4u were divided by déjà vue 

 

I'm going for sza just because I feel duas weeks are mostly from levitating, DSN was cute but not on the levels of the other decades' songs

[Calvin]

Anti Hero + Cruel Summer (2020s)

[RoseBud]

 

 Lets do number one hits now for fun

[MistressKay]

I would imagine Janet would be on there for

 

doesnt really matter/all for you 

[DevilsRollTheDice]

Legends, classics, etc, etc

 

With that said, using the top 10 as the cut off seems a bit arbitrary here. I'd be curious to see how different the list is for total weeks charted. Only using TS as an example because I know her chart runs, but Teardrops on My Guitar/Our Song would outdo Mariah here using that measure. 

[Hot Volcano]

I'll never understand Telephone spending just 7 weeks in the top 10. That was her strongest chance of another major 1-2 punch.

[Witnessed ET]

9 hours ago, chiliam said:

Surprise to not see Cali girl/ Teenage dream or Firework/ET on this list.

 

We belong together is the biggest single hit

Just dance/Poker face is the biggest dual in the time they released 

 

Shake it off/Blank Space vs Rolling/Someone like you is endurance classic dual

Yeah like…Katy literally has the all-time record for the most consecutive weeks in the hot 100 top 10. 

[Truth Teller]

Is it really a 1-2 punch if they're not consecutive singles?

 

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41 top 10 weeks Bodak Yellow/I Like It (Invasion of Privacy)

61 top 10 weeks, Don't Start Now/Levitating (Future Nostalgia)

 

[superben]

Adele easily. They were not just hits. They changed the popular music landscape.

[UnusualBoy]

Weird Katy is not there when TD had 5#1 hits and at least 3 of the those were HUGE: Cali Gurs + Firework + ET

[katara]

Back when Dua used to be popular