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* The ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' album ''Barney's Favorites, Volume 1'', which was in the top 5 children's albums on Billboard's Kid Audio chart for 5 years, went triple platinum in 1998, selling over 3 million copies.

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* The ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'' album ''Barney's Favorites, Volume 1'', which reached number 9 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and was in the top 5 children's albums on Billboard's ''Billboard'''s Kid Audio chart for 5 years, and went triple platinum in 1998, 1998 for selling over 3 million copies. copies, all despite no singles being released from it.
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* Music/TheNeighbourhood has [[OneHitWonder one massive hit song]] in the early-2010s with "Sweater Weather", yet you'd be surprised to hear about that being their only hit if you look at their streams and album certifications. ''Wiped Out!'' (2015) and ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Neighbourhood]]'' (2018) are both certified gold in the US, with the former in particular charting ''higher'' than the album with "Sweater Weather" on it.

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* Music/TheNeighbourhood has had [[OneHitWonder one massive hit song]] in the early-2010s with "Sweater Weather", yet you'd be surprised to hear about that being their only hit if you look at their streams and album certifications. ''Wiped Out!'' (2015) and ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Neighbourhood]]'' (2018) are both certified gold in the US, with the former in particular charting ''higher'' than the album with "Sweater Weather" on it.
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* Music/TheNeighbourhood has [[OneHitWonder one massive hit song]] in the early-2010s with "Sweater Weather", yet you'd be surprised to hear about that being their only hit if you look at their streams and album certifications. ''Wiped Out!'' (2015) and ''[[SelfTitledAlbum The Neighbourhood]]'' (2018) are both certified gold in the US, with the former in particular charting ''higher'' than the album with "Sweater Weather" on it.
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* Music/GarthBrooks has had 9 top 5 albums in the US, which is the same number of singles he's had that have even charted in the Billboard 100.
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* Music/PinkFloyd defines this trope. ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}, Music/AtomHeartMother, Music/{{Meddle}}, Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}''. All either gold or (multi-)platinum, none have a US top-100 single. ''Animals'' in fact didn't have ''any'' singles (though every one of its tracks did see either a promotional or unauthorized release in various parts of Europe). For the first half of their career, [[FaceOfTheBand Roger Waters]] certainly seemed to prefer it this way; when "Money" became their first significant hit single in America, he quickly became exhausted of hearing the new fans it won the band yelling for them to play it. The band's album tracks did get plenty of airplay on FM radio and still do on classic rock stations, despite never being released as singles. In their native UK, the earliest, Syd Barrett-fronted incarnation of the band had a Top 20 hit with their (standalone) debut single "Arnold Layne" in spring 1967, followed it with a Top 10 a couple of months later in "See Emily Play"... then charted precisely 0 singles in the next 12 years while they were having ''ten'' hitless Top 10 albums. They did not return to the singles chart until ''Music/TheWall'' produced a huge Number One hit at the turn of the Eighties with "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)".

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* Music/PinkFloyd defines this trope. ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}, Music/AtomHeartMother, Music/{{Meddle}}, Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}''. All either gold or (multi-)platinum, none have a US top-100 single. ''Animals'' in fact didn't have ''any'' singles (though every one of its tracks did see either a promotional or unauthorized release in various parts of Europe). For the first half of their career, [[FaceOfTheBand Roger Waters]] Waters certainly seemed to prefer it this way; when "Money" became their first significant hit single in America, he quickly became exhausted of hearing the new fans it won the band yelling for them to play it. The band's album tracks did get plenty of airplay on FM radio and still do on classic rock stations, despite never being released as singles. In their native UK, the earliest, Syd Barrett-fronted incarnation of the band had a Top 20 hit with their (standalone) debut single "Arnold Layne" in spring 1967, followed it with a Top 10 a couple of months later in "See Emily Play"... then charted precisely 0 singles in the next 12 years while they were having ''ten'' hitless Top 10 albums. They did not return to the singles chart until ''Music/TheWall'' produced a huge Number One hit at the turn of the Eighties with "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)".
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* This is often the case for Music/PearlJam locally. Every album as of ''Gigaton'' peaked in the top 5, but their success with singles is comparatively limited. In particular, the band's first two albums each yielded one single that charted towards the back of the Billboard 100 and three that didn't chart at all, even though ''Ten'' reached #2 and ''Vs'' debuted at #1 and once held the record for the most copies sold in the first week.
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* Between Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum release in 2013 and ''Music/Renaissance2022'', she did not have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum. The lead single "Break My Soul" from ''Renaissance'' finally broke the trend in 2022, hitting #1, along with "Cuff It" which hit #6.

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* Between In the 3 albums between Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum release in 2013 and ''Music/Renaissance2022'', she did not have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum. The lead single "Break My Soul" from ''Renaissance'' finally broke the trend in 2022, hitting #1, along with "Cuff It" which hit #6.
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* Between Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum release in 2013 and ''Music/Renaissance'', she did not have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum. The lead single "Break My Soul" from ''Renaissance'' finally broke the trend in 2022, hitting #1, along with "Cuff It" which hit #6.

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* Between Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum release in 2013 and ''Music/Renaissance'', ''Music/Renaissance2022'', she did not have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum. The lead single "Break My Soul" from ''Renaissance'' finally broke the trend in 2022, hitting #1, along with "Cuff It" which hit #6.
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* Since Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum came out in 2013, she’s yet to have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum.

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* Since Between Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum came out release in 2013, she’s yet to 2013 and ''Music/Renaissance'', she did not have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum. The lead single "Break My Soul" from ''Renaissance'' finally broke the trend in 2022, hitting #1, along with "Cuff It" which hit #6.
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* Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'' did not have any singles released from it, but is one of the most popular and bestselling metal albums ever. (in fact, the band only started to chart with "One", from the following album)

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* Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Music/MasterOfPuppets'' did not have any singles released from it, but is one of the most popular and bestselling metal albums ever. (in fact, the band only started to chart with "One", from the following album)album). The TitleTrack would become a hit decades after its release after a ColbertBump from Series/StrangerThings.
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In TheFifties and TheSixties, albums were often perceived as secondary to hit singles. This began to change when groups like Music/TheBeatles and Music/TheBeachBoys started to produce albums which tried to avoid AlbumFiller and make every song count. UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion helped, thanks to the then-common practice of excluding hit singles from albums.

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In TheFifties and TheSixties, [[TheSixties early '60s]], albums were often perceived as secondary to hit singles. This began to change when groups like Music/TheBeatles and Music/TheBeachBoys started to produce albums which tried to avoid AlbumFiller and make every song count. UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion helped, thanks to the then-common practice of excluding hit singles from albums.
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* Music/{{Rush}} had a couple of these.

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* Music/{{Rush}} Music/{{Rush|Band}} had a couple of these.
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*** A notable exception is ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''. It started in England as a double-EP, but when it came time to release it in America, Capitol decided to add all of the singles from the ''Sgt. Pepper'' era on the B-side, while the A-side featured the original EP with an altered tracklist. However, this was widely regarded as a smart move and became [[BetterThanCanon the preferred version for many, even in the band's native UK.]]

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*** A notable exception is ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''. It started in England as a double-EP, but when it came time to release it in America, Capitol decided to add all of the singles from the ''Sgt. Pepper'' era on the B-side, while the A-side featured the original EP with an altered tracklist. However, this was widely regarded as a smart move and became [[BetterThanCanon the preferred version for many, even in the band's native UK.]]

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* Music/ATribeCalledQuest, despite having multiple gold and platinum-selling albums, never had a top 40 pop hit. The closest they got was "Award Tour" from ''Midnight Marauders'', but it fizzled out at #47.



* Since Music/{{Beyonce}} ‘s SelfTitledAlbum came out in 2013, she’s yet to have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum.

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* Since Music/{{Beyonce}} ‘s Music/{{Beyonce}}'s SelfTitledAlbum came out in 2013, she’s yet to have a single hit #1 on Billboard. ''Drunk in Love'' from that album got to #2 but nothing else got anywhere near the top ten despite the album #2 on the Billboard charts in 2014. Only ''Formation'' and ''Sorry'' from ''Music/Lemonade2016'' did well on the singles charts at #10 and #11 respectively. It was the third best selling album of 2016. Likely due to the former being pretty overtly sexual in nature and the latter being a ConceptAlbum.
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* Music/KendrickLamar's ''Music/ToPimpAButterfly'' peaked at #1 on the album charts and is considered to be one of the best albums of all time, but none of the singles made it to the top 40, with "King Kunta" getting the closest, peaking at #55. Given that it's a ConceptAlbum, this isn't particularly surprising.

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* Music/KendrickLamar's ''Music/ToPimpAButterfly'' peaked at #1 on the album charts and is considered to be one of the best albums of all time, but none of the singles made it to the top 40, with "King Kunta" getting the closest, peaking at #55. Given that it's a very politically-charged ConceptAlbum, this isn't particularly surprising.
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* Music/TaylorSwift's surprise album ''Music/Folklore2020'' has a variant - it was the best-selling album of 2020. Yet lead single "Cardigan" opened at #1 but couldn't crack the year-end hot 100.

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* Music/TaylorSwift's surprise album ''Music/Folklore2020'' has a variant - it was the best-selling album of 2020. Yet 2020, yet lead single "Cardigan" opened at #1 but couldn't crack the year-end hot 100.Hot 100, even though it ''opened at #1''.

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** Averted in the America where the American counterparts of their albums featured altered tracklists to feature the hit singles, only for the Beatles to demand Capitol Records to not do this beginning with ''Sgt. Pepper'' when this trope was played straight from that point on. They would, however, put out a compilation of singles from the post-''Magical Mystery Tour'' era after their breakup called ''Hey Jude''.

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** Averted in the America where the American counterparts of their albums featured altered tracklists to feature the hit singles, only for the Beatles to demand Capitol Records to not do this beginning with ''Sgt. Pepper'' when this trope was played straight from that point on. They would, however, put out a compilation of singles from the post-''Magical Mystery Tour'' era after their breakup called ''Hey Jude''.


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* Three of British indie pop group Blossoms' studio albums reached #1 in their homeland but none of their singles have cracked the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart.
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* Music/JamieXX released ''In Colour'' to major critical acclaim, including Mercury Prize and Grammy nominations, as well as peaking at #3 and #2 on the UK and Australian charts, respectively. Despite this, the album's only hits were on the UK Indie charts, and none of them ever reached the UK Top 40. Despite this, they have Spotify listens in the hundreds of millions.

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* Music/JamieXX released ''In Colour'' to major critical acclaim, including Mercury Prize and Grammy nominations, as well as peaking at #3 and #2 on the UK and Australian charts, respectively. Despite this, the album's only hits were on the UK Indie charts, and none of them ever reached the UK Top 40. Despite this, they They have Spotify listens in the hundreds of millions.millions, however.

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