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See also [[No Hit Wonder]].
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== Alternative Rock ==
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* ''Headquarters'' by [[The Monkees]] debuted at #1 (and then sat at #2 for a very long time after ''[[Beatles|Sgt Pepper]]'' came out the next week), despite having no American singles released from it whatsoever, and thus no officially-charting individual songs. "Shades of Gray" and "Randy Scouse Git" have made it as [[Greatest Hits Album]] material, though, the latter having been a top-5 single in the UK.
** ''Sgt. Pepper'' itself qualifies as an example, as there were no singles released from it in the UK or the US. However, several songs did become popular through radio airplay.
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* All of [[Norah Jones]]' albums have gone platinum, and she has won multiple Grammys, but in the USA only one (her Diamond-selling debut album) has spawned anything that could be called a hit ("Don't Know Why", which only scraped the Top 40).
* Before ''Stunt,'' [[Barenaked Ladies]]' most popular release in the US was the live album ''Rock Spectacle.'' It's still considered one of their best albums, but none of the songs on it charted in the US (until "The Old Apartment" was remixed years later).
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