Is Hold Me the Mac's most successful single?

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

There is a reason why you hear Dreams more than Hold Me today. The album Rumours has sold over 20 million copies and every song whether single or not from that album is heard every day on some radio station.
Hold Me was on a mildly successful album and does not have the classic rock chops that Rumours has. While Mirage is a great album, it is not considered a rock masterpiece like Rumours. If Hold Me was on Rumours, it would still be played like the rest of the Rumours songs.

This thread was just pointing out that Hold Me was technically a more successful single than Dreams. Hold Me was in the top ten for almost 3 months. Dreams was in the top ten about a month. Dreams just had an easier ride to the #1 spot which only lasted 1 week btw.
I am not hating on Dreams, just pointing out a little known fact. I love little known facts

That's not facts, that's pure conjecture. If you suggest the success of a song is based on its length of time it spent on the charts, and in just the top 10 at that, you would also have to weigh the strength of the songs it was competing against. Probably a safer and more accurate way to judge success would be sales or how music stands the test of time. I love "Dreams" as much today as I did when I first heard it. Never gets old to me. I also love "Hold Me", but I just disagree that it was Mac's most successful single . It's really hard to gauge the "most successful" single in such a binary way that you have.

Success is a very subjective word.