Is Hold Me the Mac's most successful single?

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by jwd

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.

You are missing the point. I did not define success. The charts did. I personally disagree with charts all the time. I hate charts. The chart was not of my making. Its actually on the Fleetwood Mac charts page. I just cut and paste. I never had control of any hit list. I never created the list. I just reported it.
Conjecture has nothing to do with it. I mentioned Dreams because it was the Mac's only #1 song and is fairly common to believe that its the Mac's biggest hit, no?

Dont blame me. Blame all the radio DJs across the USA in the 70s and 80s and all the criteria for creating pop radio lists. I am not saying what is the better song, just revealing the statistics. You argument loses water. If you are proud and believe Dreams was a #1 song then you cant discard the same criteria that made Dreams #1 for 1 week and that states Hold Me was a bigger hit with more weeks in the top 10 and ended up higher on the charts in each of their year's end. You cant have it both ways. Your love of Dreams have nothing to do with the actual statistics. Dont blame it on me.....blame it on the countdown

Sorry