One album wonder?
It’s not as ignominious as one hit wonder. But outside of her album in 1995, is her career noteworthy?
shareI’m only aware of one song, ‘Thank You’, outside of Jagged Little Pill.
How does that happen? How can you knock out such an epic album aged 21 and then not one hit song in the subsequent 30 years?
Was it not really her? Were those songs dependent on a collaboration that fell apart?
Apparently she’s still out there gigging so where’s the new material..?
Her last album was 4-5 years ago. Since making this thread, I actually saw an Alanis concert last summer (Joan Jett opened for her). Alanis basically performs as a nostalgic act nowadays, leaning heavily on Jagged Little Pill, so I guess even she knows that this one album characterizes her whole career
shareIt's ignorant for anyone to refer to her as a one hit artist. Top 40 singles don't make the artist.
A good example of this phenomenon is the band Devo. They're one of my favorite bands and they made several great albums over several years, yet many fools call them a one hit wonder for "Whip It", a song which I can barely stand. Devo did some classics like "Mongoloid" and "Freedom of Choice".
If you want to go that route, you could call Joan Jett a one hit wonder for "I Love Rock n' Roll". Yet Jett is an iconic artist going back to the 70's band the Runaways.
So nah, Morissette is not a one album wonder. She's not really my cup of tea, but I regard her.
Yes - it would be ignorant to refer to Alanis as an one-hit artist. But nobody said she is a one hit artist. She’s a one-album artist
shareSame difference. She's not a one album artist. Her fans buy her other albums.
shareStatistically, that’s actually not true: Jagged Little Pill sold about 33M worldwide. Her other albums did not come anywhere close to that figure
shareStatistically it's not true and that's what I'm trying to explain to you. She has sold 75 million albums worldwide. So less than half her sales are from that one album. That denotes a major artist.
A true one hit wonder is someone like Lipps with that stupid "Funkytown" song.
You guys keep trying to claim every artist who doesn't churn out a top 40 hit every year can be dismissed. That's silly.
No, that’s not true. You’re going off wiki, aren’t you? She did not sell 42M albums outside Jagged Little Pill.
She sold something like 47M original albums worldwide. Jagged Little Pill sold 33M
Alanis = 175k
Now is the Time = 60k
Jagged Little Pill = 33.5M
Supposed Former Infatuation = 7.4M
Under Rug = 3.2M
So called chaos = 1.5M
Havoc & Bright Lights = 420k
Flavors of Entanglement = 650k
If you add in the digital sales, then you get about 60M total sales for Alanis. But Jagged Little Pill would count for 44M
Statistically - 73% of her downloads and streams come from Jagged Little Pill even today, 20 years after its release
https://chartmasters.org/cspc-alanis-morissette-popularity-analysis/
And here's Warner Music which says she sold 60k worldwide and "Jagged Little Pill" sold 33k. So? The stats are allover the place and none of them show she was a "one album wonder". Even by your one source she sold 3 other albums over a million.
According to Warner Music Japan, ALANIS MORISSETTE sold over 60,000,000 albums worldwide, including 20,500,000 in the United States and 3,820,000 in the United Kingdom. The best-selling album by ALANIS MORISSETTE is JAGGED LITTLE PILL, which sold over 33,000,000 copies .share
https://bestsellingalbums.org/artist/361
The 60M figure (as listed in the write-up of your link) includes digital sales. The 33M for Jagged Little Pill refers solely to original album sales. If you counted digital sales, Jagged Little Pill sold 44M out of 60M
As proof, you can count the sales of each album, as listed in that list provided in your link. 33+7+1.9+1.9+1.7+1.3=46.8 .These are the figures for original album sales. She moved 47M original albums; and JLP made up 33M of them
Meh, by your one source. Both my sources show different. You haven't made your point.
Here's another one which shows Morissette is an accomplished artist with a long and varied track record, not a "one" anything.
How many sources do you want me to post?
The discography of Alanis Morissette, a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, comprises ten studio albums, three live albums, six compilation albums, two extended plays, 43 singles, twelve promotional singles, six video albums, and 33 music videos. She has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide.share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSF9PZSNyk
She had four US top 40 singles in her career, her last song to appear on the top 100 was “Everything” in 2004. She had a pretty decent run for a solo artist, but hasn’t really been relevant for the past 20 or so years.
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