Blog: Idolator

In the annals of popular music, certain albums stand out for their sheer percentage of hit-bound material. Michael Jackson's Thriller is the most famous, not just because it spun off seven Top 10 singles—the first album to do so—but because the whole disc had only nine tracks. That's a stunning 78% hit ratio. Shania Twain's Come on Over , roughly 70% of which charted on the country and pop charts over the course of two years, is nearly as legendary. More recently, Rihanna has mined just over half of Good Girl Gone Bad for a [...]