@Pittrout: No. When it comes to music chart terminology, the standard practice is that "consecutive" means EXACTLY that--consecutive. In other words, ALL the songs deemed "consecutive" have reached that milestone with NO interrupts.
For an artist to have had 20 consecutive Top 10 hits, that means the artist has had 20 hits, released one after another, that reached the Top 10, with NO songs failing to reach the Top 10. (In most cases, chart watchers have made exceptions for Christmas/Holiday records--such as country group Alabama's 21 consecutive #1 country hits. They did have a holiday single, "Christmas in Dixie," released during that run and the song only peaked at #35, and when their consecutive #1 streak is referred to, there's almost always a comment about "if you don't include/count 'Christmas in Dixie'.")
It's just the same as referring to an artist's having so many "consecutive weeks" at #1 or in the Top 10 (that being a reference to Katy Perry's recent record of becoming the FIRST artist in Billboard's chart history to spend a full year--52 consecutive weeks--in the Top 10). If there's a break, then it's "non-consecutive." When you're referring to weeks at #1 or in the Top 10, there can't be a break in the number or it becomes "non-consecutive." Obviously, an artist can take a break in releasing albums over a period of months, or years, without that affecting their "consecutive" streak, but what DOES break the streak is when one of those songs fails to reach that achievement. If the acts in the quiz had not charted with ANY other songs between the listed songs, then the "consecutive" part of the quiz title would be fine; but, as I pointed out, almost every single one of the artists in this quiz had at least 1 (in most cases, 10 or more) chart hits. The first artist on the quiz, for instance, had 17 Hot 100 entries, of which 11 made the Top 40 and 5 made the Top 10 between those "consecutive" #1s. And the last artist on the quiz had 11 Hot 100 entries, of which 10 made the Top 4 |
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