November 17, 20232 yr 26 | 37 | 115th week Wham! Last Christmas http://is1.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music/v4/02/0d/a0/020da063-f950-e967-64cd-1a06eb11f9e6/source/170x170bb.jpg 1st single from The Final Released: 1984 Label: Epic Records Chart Statistics NE (15/12/1984) | 2-2-2-2-2-3-8-11-21-33-38-51-67-x * RE (14/12/1985) | 32-10-6-6-14-36-68-x RE (13/12/1986) | 85-63-47-45-71-x RE (08/12/2007) | 50-23-14-16-40-x RE (06/12/2008) | 67-36-26-27-45-x RE (12/12/2009) | 53-39-41-34-x RE (11/12/2010) | 57-53-56-61-x RE (10/12/2011) | 55-26-28-34-x RE (08/12/2012) | 55-34-41-35-87-x RE (07/12/2013) | 91-44-40-36-68-x RE (06/12/2014) | 86-39-36-35-28-x RE (10/12/2015) | 65-27-24-18-54-x RE (08/12/2016) | 75-19-20-16-7-x RE (30/11/2017) | 81-29-6-3-3-2-x RE (06/12/2018) | 52-14-7-7-3-x RE (28/11/2019) | 80-43-13-7-5-3-x RE (19/11/2020) | 76-44-20-3-2-2-3-1-x RE (18/11/2021) | 85-54-28-4-3-3-3-2-x RE (17/11/2022) | 71-42-23-9-3-1-2-1-x RE (16/11/2023) | 37-26 * double A side with Everything She Wants Sales: 4,800k+ Certification: 5x Platinum Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 02 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video E8gmARGvPlI Biography As the energetically punctuated Wham!, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley combined youthful high spirits with a polished union of disco and soul to become one of the defining pop acts of the 1980s. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Michael) and Andrew John Ridgeley first met in secondary school as 12-year-olds back in 1975. Their 1981 debut as Wham!, the pop-rap snack “Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?),” preached the joy of life on welfare amid rampant British unemployment. As the group’s principal songwriter and frontman, Michael’s exuberant turn on “Young Guns (Go for It!)” precipitated Wham!’s vibrant, post-disco debut, Fantastic, in 1983, which parlayed the duo’s carefree vigor into the glistening hedonism of “Club Tropicana.” Returning in 1984 with the emphatic “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” the group folded Detroit soul into an effervescent pop marvel that sent Wham! to the summit of the U.S. pop charts. Michael took over production on their follow-up album, Make It Big, whose modernized Motown sound on the brooding boogie cut “Everything She Wants” and the resplendent pop-soul of “Careless Whisper” cemented his standing as one of pop’s foremost performer/composers. Ending 1984 with the career-defining synth-pop torch song “Last Christmas,” Wham! harked back to their feel-good beginnings with “I’m Your Man” in 1985 before amicably parting to allow Michael to focus on his solo career. Their final album, 1986’s Music from the Edge of Heaven, featuring their last single “The Edge of Heaven,” wrote the postscript on a prodigious four-year passage that flourished into an indelible pop legacy. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 1982 03 Young Guns (Go For It) -1- 1983 08 Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) -2- 1983 02 Bad Boys -3- 1983 04 Club Tropicana -4- 1983 15 Club Fantastic Megamix -NAS- 1984 01 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go -1- MILLIONAIRE 1984 01 Freedom -2- 1984 01 Last Christmas / Everything She Wants -1- MILLION SELLER 1985 01 I'm Your Man -2- 1986 01 The Edge Of Heaven -3- 5 x #1 | 8 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100 Social Media Wham! http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png -x- 25 | 18 | 2nd week Olivia Rodrigo Can't Catch Me Now Soundtrack single from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Released: 3rd November 2023 Label: Lions Gate Entertainment Chart Statistics NE (16/11/2023) | 18-25 Sales: 10k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 73 Sales 39 Audio Streaming 00 Video Streaming Video foTmGIHV8Yg Biography A few weeks after Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” became the biggest song in the world, Saturday Night Live ran a sketch that featured a bunch of middle-aged guys shooting pool in a dive bar. One puts “drivers license” on the jukebox. Another complains that it just sounds like a teenage girl sitting alone at a piano. By the end of their discourse, they’re all in tears, singing along. “I was driving around my neighborhood listening to really sad songs, like, crying in the car,” Rodrigo told Apple Music. “And I got home and I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll write a song about this: crying in the car.’” Rodrigo had tapped into a universal experience: The middle-aged guys weren’t teenage girls, but they’d also driven around listening to sad songs. Rodrigo was just 17 when the song came out, but she had been getting ready for years. Born in Temecula, California, in 2003, she started lessons in piano, voice, and acting as a child, and went on to star in Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. But, really, what could prepare you for breaking the global single-week streaming record for a female artist? Especially on your first single? And getting a nod from Taylor Swift in the meantime? (Along with “drivers license” winning the Apple Music Award for Top Song of the Year in 2021, Rodrigo’s debut LP, SOUR, was the Top Album of the Year and Rodrigo herself was named Breakthrough Artist of the Year.) Like Swift—and Lorde, too—Rodrigo has a knack for conjuring big feelings through small details: an ex singing along to their Billy Joel with his new love (“deja vu”), reading his self-help books “so you’d think that I was smart” (“enough for you”). Her content is all-caps, but her delivery is lowercase, lacing bedroom pop with a vulnerability and anger rare for teen pop: “Where’s my f***ing teenage dream?” she wonders on “brutal.” “I’m the biggest emo drama queen,” Rodrigo tells Apple Music. Maybe. But the key to letting it out is keeping it together. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2020 32 All I Want -OST- 2021 01 drivers license -1- MILLIONAIRE 2021 04 deja vu -2- 2021 01 good 4 u -3- MILLIONAIRE 2021 05 traitor -4- 2021 17 favorite crime -AT- 2021 36 jealousy, jealousy -AT- 2023 01 vampire -1- 2023 03 bad idea right? -2- 2023 07 get him back! -3- 2023 45 the grudge -AT- 2023 18 Can't Catch Me Now -OST- 3 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 7 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 11 x Top 40 | 12 x Top 100 Social Media Olivia Rodrigo http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
November 17, 20232 yr If they wanted to skip a Xmas song, I’d rather they skipped Mariah instead of Wham!
November 17, 20232 yr Can't Catch Me Now is lovely, and another great addition to The Hunger Games soundtrack songs :heart: (tho Safe & Sound obviously remains untouchable)
November 17, 20232 yr If they wanted to skip a Xmas song, I’d rather they skipped Mariah instead of Wham! And played Jax Jones instead.
November 17, 20232 yr Mariah climbed 12 spots whereas Wham! only climbed 11. That's probably not the reason for playing Mariah but
November 17, 20232 yr Can't Catch Me Now is lovely, and another great addition to The Hunger Games soundtrack songs :heart: (tho Safe & Sound obviously remains untouchable) I actually think this is a bit of an attempt at recreating Safe & Sound
November 17, 20232 yr Oh playing Mariah and skipping Wham :o biased!!! I'm so using this next time you-know-who bleats on about sexism etc
November 17, 20232 yr 24 | 23 | 8th week Doja Cat Agora Hills 3rd single from Scarlet Released: 22nd September 2023 Label: Kemosabe Records / RCA Records Chart Statistics NE (05/10/2023) | 29-35-42-40-28-26-23-24 Sales: 60k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 00 Sales 59 Audio Streaming 41 Video Streaming Video 0c66ksfigtU Biography Some call the end of summer the “slow news season”—school's still out, vacation is in full swing, and headlines tend to get weird—and Doja Cat (born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini in 1995) knew just what to do about it. In August of 2018, the Los Angeles singer and rapper dropped “Mooo!”, a sultry R&B jam, thick with double entendres and sung from the perspective of a cow. It went viral, thanks to an unforgettable, improbably catchy chorus that had people wondering: Could she possibly be for real? But Doja, who released her debut EP, Purrr!, in 2014, and her first album, Amala, in 2018, was no novelty act. In the years since, she has proven herself one of pop music’s savviest, most audacious characters. She raps nimbly, switching up her cadence from one syllable to the next, and her pop-culture nods (referencing actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry or sampling blink-182 and Paul Anka) are just as unpredictable as her dizzying flow. Her presentation is both tough and coquettish. As she demonstrated over and over on her 2019 album, Hot Pink, she assumes a fun and fundamentally empowered stance in her singing and rapping about sex. And woe to anyone who might take issue with that: “Sex is meaningful, it is!” she told Apple Music, with her trademark defiant charm. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 80 Juicy (Doja Cat & Tyga) -1- 2020 02 Say So -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 24 Boss Bitch -OST- 2020 62 Like That (feat. Gucci Mane) -3- 2020 74 To Be Young (Anne-Marie feat. Doja Cat) 2020 86 Baby, I'm Jealous (Bebe Rexha feat. Doja Cat) 2020 16 motive (Ariana Grande & Doja Cat) 2021 35 Best Friend (Saweetie feat. Doja Cat) 2021 12 Streets -4- 2021 03 Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2021 74 Dick (StarBoi3 feat. Doja Cat) 2021 11 Need To Know -3- 2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd) -2- 2021 26 Ain't Shit -AT- 2021 13 Woman -4- 2021 41 Get Into It (Yuh) -5- 2022 36 Freaky Deaky (Tyga & Doja Cat) 2022 19 I Like You (A Happier Song) (Post Malone feat. Doja Cat) 2022 24 Vegas -OST- 2023 37 Attention -1- 2023 01 Paint The Town Red -2- 2023 53 Demons -IG- 2023 23 Agora Hills -3- 1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 21 x Top 100 Social Media Doja Cat http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png -x- 23 | 16 | 15th week Doja Cat Paint The Town Red 2nd single from Scarlet Released: 4th August 2023 Label: Kemosabe Records / RCA Records Chart Statistics NE (17/08/2023) | 20-15-4-2-1-1-1-1-1-12-9-12-13-16-23 Sales: 300k+ Certification: Silver Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio 01 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 01 Video Streaming Video m4_9TFeMfJE Biography Some call the end of summer the “slow news season”—school's still out, vacation is in full swing, and headlines tend to get weird—and Doja Cat (born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini in 1995) knew just what to do about it. In August of 2018, the Los Angeles singer and rapper dropped “Mooo!”, a sultry R&B jam, thick with double entendres and sung from the perspective of a cow. It went viral, thanks to an unforgettable, improbably catchy chorus that had people wondering: Could she possibly be for real? But Doja, who released her debut EP, Purrr!, in 2014, and her first album, Amala, in 2018, was no novelty act. In the years since, she has proven herself one of pop music’s savviest, most audacious characters. She raps nimbly, switching up her cadence from one syllable to the next, and her pop-culture nods (referencing actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry or sampling blink-182 and Paul Anka) are just as unpredictable as her dizzying flow. Her presentation is both tough and coquettish. As she demonstrated over and over on her 2019 album, Hot Pink, she assumes a fun and fundamentally empowered stance in her singing and rapping about sex. And woe to anyone who might take issue with that: “Sex is meaningful, it is!” she told Apple Music, with her trademark defiant charm. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 80 Juicy (Doja Cat & Tyga) -1- 2020 02 Say So -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 24 Boss Bitch -OST- 2020 62 Like That (feat. Gucci Mane) -3- 2020 74 To Be Young (Anne-Marie feat. Doja Cat) 2020 86 Baby, I'm Jealous (Bebe Rexha feat. Doja Cat) 2020 16 motive (Ariana Grande & Doja Cat) 2021 35 Best Friend (Saweetie feat. Doja Cat) 2021 12 Streets -4- 2021 03 Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2021 74 Dick (StarBoi3 feat. Doja Cat) 2021 11 Need To Know -3- 2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd) -2- 2021 26 Ain't Shit -AT- 2021 13 Woman -4- 2021 41 Get Into It (Yuh) -5- 2022 36 Freaky Deaky (Tyga & Doja Cat) 2022 19 I Like You (A Happier Song) (Post Malone feat. Doja Cat) 2022 24 Vegas -OST- 2023 37 Attention -1- 2023 01 Paint The Town Red -2- 2023 53 Demons -IG- 2023 23 Agora Hills -3- 1 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 9 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 21 x Top 100 Social Media Doja Cat http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
November 17, 20232 yr Paint The Town Red is still a bop <3 (and I prefer it to Agora Hills so I'm glad this is the one getting the play)
November 17, 20232 yr Paint The Town Red is still a bop <3 (and I prefer it to Agora Hills so I'm glad this is the one getting the play) Agreed.
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