O/T: Into The Groove - Madonna

AndrewChouffi wrote: PopArchivist wrote: It still baffles the mind how a guaranteed hit such as Into the Groove is not promoted as a single in 1985 or even early 1986. That and Back In Time by Huey Lewis and The News are MAJOR hits that could have easily been top 10. Not charting these huge hits would never happen in 2021 with the way Billboard has it set up now. A possible answer is that at that time the record companies made most of their money off of standard album sales. The companies didn't want to cannibalize their current album sales so they wouldn't allow (or pay for) any promotion of a cut that wasn't on the current album.

Given that both songs were from movie soundtracks, there may have been legal reasons these weren't released as a
single.
Bon Jovi's "Never Say Goodbye" got a lot of airplay as an album cut around the same time as well as a Jermaine
Jackson song that didn't see single release until it had long since faded (and then only as a B side).