[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Smithy

..plus it's kinda common sense not to put the best song on the album out as the first single kinda defeats the point of it.

actually artists usually put the strongest song out first to give the album a big debut. A weak lead single can kill an album(see Duffy and numerous others for examples) before it even gets going. Of course, they don't always choose right. But as a general rule its strongest first.