Can you name some albums that were initially going to have different lead singles than the ones that were chosen?

Britney Spears - "Outrageous" (In The Zone. Jive wanted this as the lead single but Britney fought hard for "Me Against The Music" for the lead)
Adele - "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Adele said in an interview that this was initially the first choice for the lead from "25")
Lady Gaga - "Aura" (Gaga initially wanted this as the lead single from "ARTPOP".)
Carly Rae Jepsen - "Run Away With Me" (Carly wanted this as the lead single from 'E-MO-TION' but her record labels / Scooter Braun wanted something as catchy as "Call Me Maybe" as the lead, and "I Really Like You" became the lead).
Madonna - "Candy Shop" (Madonna wanted this as the lead single from "Hard Candy" but Warner Bros. wanted the "4 Minutes" Justin Timberlake feature as the first single. It became a huge hit but one of her worst songs. There's a reason she still performs "Candy Shop" on tour over "4 Minutes" ).

Pink Friday: Massive Attack
Roman Reloaded: Va Va Voom
The Pinkprint: Anaconda

Wasn't Mannequin supposed to be the lead single from Circus? I read something about that somewhere.

Britney Spears - "Outrageous" (In The Zone. Jive wanted this as the lead single but Britney fought hard for "Me Against The Music" for the lead)

Outrageous? Why Nobody suggested Toxic

Britney's team wanted Get Back to be the lead single but Gimme More was chosen instead

Didn't Britney have to fight to make Toxic a single, too?

I can't remember if I just dreamed this or what, but I recall reading that MDNA's lead was going to be I'm Addicted? And then when the Halftime show was confirmed they changed it to GMAYL and added Nicki and MIA for good measure.

Born This Way - Marry The Night

Yup! Her team wanted Outrageous to be the 2nd single but she fought hard for Toxic to be the 2nd single

i ****ing HATE Scooter. No wonder Ariana fired his ass, "i Really Like You' is a great song but not LEAD single worthy.

if the era started out with Run Away With Me....... Emotion would be gold by now

If Aura had been released, it would have backfired more than Applause
(because of all the cultural appropriation allegations that would follow)

Anyway...
Headstrong: He Said She Said was supposed to be the first single, but then the video got scrapped and they went with Be Good To Me
Guilty Pleasure: It was supposed to be the gem Hot Mess

On 21 too the label thought Rolling In The Deep wasn't a good lead single but Adele insisted.
Yeah on 25 the label wanted SML Adele Hello, Adele won

Xtina's label wanted Beautiful as the lead from Stripped but she fought for Dirrty and they relented because she convinced them it would bring attention to her new era

Let There Be Love would've been a better lead than Your Body

Lift Me Up should've been the lead from Bionic

The Truth About Love - Here Comes The Weekend (feat. Eminem)

Marry the Night was supposed to be the lead single of Born This Way.

Gaga also considered Sexxx Dreams a potential lead single for ARTPOP.

Tragic.

Say Something was gonna be the lead on The Emancipation of Mimi. THANK GOD it wasn't!!

Naughty Girl was the label's choice for lead single, for Dangerously in Love but Beyoncé wasn't happy with that, she recorded Crazy in Love and now we have that iconic song in our lives.

It wasn't Aura that was intended as the first ARTPOP single, it was between Applause and Venus, wasn't it?
Aura was planned as *a* single, maybe 3rd or something, to finish off the Paparazzi trilogy, but I think she only leaked it to give her fans a taste of the album. And she did so on Andy Warhol's bday, if I'm not mistaken.