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Old 02-19-2012, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by MacShadowsBall View Post
I think part of what is coloring our judgement is the long term live performances. For example, nobody has yet to reply about Songbird. To me Landside is to Stevie as Songbird is to Christine. Yet Landslide was deemed a hit and Songbird seems to leaning towards 'non-hit'.
But Landslide is on the radio constantly (mostly The Dance version but sometimes the original) whereas Songbird never is.

We could make it easy and say that a song has to have been released as a single and made the charts to qualify as a hit, thereby eliminating songs like The Chain and GDW. Of course that still leaves the issue of how high it has to chart before it qualifies as a hit:

Don't Stop (No. 3)
Gypsy (No. 12)
Over My Head (No. 20)
Love In Store (No. 22)
Save Me (No. 33)
Sisters of the Moon (No. 86)

Where does anybody draw the line?