#9 & #57 on UK iTunes

Official lyric video

 

Gaga's first readable lyric video, and of course it's because of the Rolling Stones team

This is her new Bad Romance!!!!

Why is the lyric video 5 mins, but the single version is 7 mins?? Those last two minutes are divine and need to stay, especially the interchanging yowls between GaGa and Jagger!!!

 

This is ha most exciting samg since Bad Romance I'd say!! Or Alice, if it had been released!°

This is her new Bad Romance!!!!

There are two versions, an edited 5-minute version and the original 7-minute version

 

Stream both:

 

Gaga's vocals are so good in this song that until halfway through the song I forgot that she's white.

That is kinda true

Gaga posted about the song on Instagram

 

“I was in the studio at Henson preparing for Joker, leaving to go home for the night and someone said ‘Mick wants to see you.’ I only know one Mick, so I walked down to a studio at the other end of the hall and opened the door. It was a portal to the 70s.

 

“I saw Mick, Keith, Ronnie. Stevie Wonder was there along with all the musicians they were collaborating with. Steve Jordan on the drums. Family & friends hanging out listening on big speakers while Andrew Watt smiled marveling at their unreleased album. We hung out for a bit listening to music and catching up. Mick then asked if I’d hang in the live room while they cut another record. I sat down on the floor, my back against a Rhodes-someone handed me some headphones and eventually a mic. Mick was towering over me smiling saying ‘go on and do your thing then.’ I listened to the music and scribbled furiously trying to learn the tune and then freestyled and sang along… trying not to step on everyone’s toes cuz Andrew had the whole room mic’d the way they did back in the day, and I didn’t want my vocals to bleed into any of the magic they’d been making. The Rhodes was vibrating furiously through my back-Stevie was playing and my whole body was shaking with every note. We played for a few hours and everyone was so excited having me there (this felt so exciting if not slightly insane). I went home not thinking much of it, I loved the song and all the musicians but I thought we were just hangin. Andrew texted me the next day saying Mick wanted to cut the vocals WITH me that night-the way he’d cut them back in the day. Same room, two mics. Single takes. I thought about Mary Clayton… Gimme Shelter…gospel and soul. I thought about my favorite old Stones tunes and all the great vocalists who had sung with Mick, making what we know now as a ‘sound’ unique to a band that defined a huge piece of rock’n’roll. Then we cut it live. Making the ‘Sweet Sounds of Heaven.’ I sang in a way I never really sang before except for with Mick. And Andrew and I both cried-there’s something about witnessing music history and when you get to be a part of it I think that’s exactly what our heaven feels like. It’s just a sweet sound.”

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This is track #7 on NMF UK, #6 on the big global one (with 4.2 million followers).

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Happy with those NMF positions! :cheer: top 10 on iTunes too!

The iTunes charts are bit difficult to follow because it charts twice, for instance #3 and #5 in Sweden.

 

She posted a new selfie on Instagram wearing The Stones t-shirt

 

@1707636548080894294

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200k views for the lyric video in 12hrs.

 

Also enters the AM charts in Argentina and Brazil.

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If it makes a dent on streaming here I'll be pleasantly surprised! Come on Monsters and Team Stones :cheer:

I think it's totally possible that it appears on AM and/or Spotify chart.

This is a bit of a slog, although I did like their last single.

 

I must say, her vocals sound absolutely amazing on this though!

UK iTunes #6, peak so far

 

 

Apple Music:

 

#99 Netherlands

#110 Argentina

#113 Norway

#142 Finland

#154 Sweden

#161 Brazil

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AM update

 

#47 Netherlands

#72 Norway

#87 Sweden

#92 Argentina

#142 Finland

#151 Brazil

 

 

 

It hasn't reached top 10 on US iTunes yet which is a bit crappy~

Debuts with a combined 338,448 streams on Spotify with a partial day:

 

Edited Version: 190,582

Full Version: 147,866

 

Bodes well for decent Friday numbers I think.

It hasn't reached top 10 on US iTunes yet which is a bit crappy~

It reached #10 on US iTunes yesterday (its peak).

Consequence names this song of the week and calls it "an instant classic" :clap:

 

Song of the Week: The Rolling Stones’ “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” Is an Instant Classic

 

On paper, a seven-and-a-half-minute jam from a legacy rock band whose most celebrated material lies decades behind them sounds like a punishment. And yet, this new The Rolling Stones song, “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” actually… rocks? And not just because of the guests? What year is it!?

 

An anthemic, surprisingly emotional cut from their upcoming album Hackney Diamonds, “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” sounds more impassioned, more inspired, and (by some miracle) more youthful than a Rolling Stones song in 2023 has any right to be. From the guitar licks to Mick Jagger’s roaring lead vocals, the performances brim with life.

 

Appearances from Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga make the tune all the better. The former holds down a soulful piano melody, while the latter proves that she’s still one of the most impressive voices in contemporary pop. The interplay between Gaga and Jagger’s voice, in particular, makes the extended track feel like it breezes by in an instant.

 

With a false ending and some light studio chatter thrown in for good measure, “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” is easily one of the best late-stage songs The Stones have to offer. If the rest of Hackney Diamonds follows suit, rock fans of all ages will be in for quite the treat.

 

https://consequence.net/2023/09/the-rolling...ng-of-the-week/

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