February 20Feb 20 Author 28 | 28 | 69th weekLady Gaga and Bruno MarsDie With A Smile1st single from MAYHEMReleased: 16th August 2024Label: Interscope RecordsChart StatisticsNE (29/08/2024) | 7-7-7-6-5-4-4-3-2-3-17-14-14-18-23-43-37-32-64-8-8-8-10-12-13-19-16-18-22-18-24-22-27-24-26-30-36-36-42-42-37-42-42-49-50-56-56-61-63-66-54-54-53-55-55-57-56-62-58-53-62-80-87-xRE (22/01/2026) | 28-23-30-23-28-28Sales: 1,800,000+Certification: 3x PlatinumStatus: Standard Chart Ratio01 Sales03 Audio Streaming02 Video StreamingVideoBiographyLady GagaSome may dismiss pop as inauthentic. But for Lady Gaga—one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations—the inauthenticity is the point. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). Never wedded to the same image—her most memorable looks (among many) have included a gown fashioned from raw meat, a red-carpet-appropriate pair of dish gloves, and “the world’s first flying dress”—Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21; she’d been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster; the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP; the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett; the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne; and 2020’s jubilant return to her neon-hued electro roots, Chromatica. If the 2009 smash “Paparazzi” reveled in the flashes, then “Born This Way” celebrated inner light: In translating her diffuse identity into world-conquering art, Gaga has become a beacon to anyone else who’s felt like an outsider. Her loyal following of Little Monsters has affirmed a deep connection to her message of self-love and self-expression, despite pop’s fickleness and her chameleonic exterior. She played out a simpler version of her path to fame in the Oscar-worthy 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. But while her character’s ascent was abetted by her lover, Gaga’s was all her own. - Apple MusicBruno MarsBruno Mars has a good story about Prince: Mars is hanging out at an awards show, during a commercial break. The crowd is filled with celebrities. Suddenly, Mars feels the room shift, people part, and there he is, Mars told Apple Music in a 2016 interview—Prince, “just floating by, levitating by.” Prince catches Mars’ eye and gives him a thumbs-up, and Mars—stunned—gives Prince a thumbs-up back. “And that’s it,” Mars said. “What more can you ask?” More than a Prince cosign? How about a stack of multiplatinum records? The privilege of being able to entertain people the world over? Mars has those too. But you get the sense that the nod from Prince was affirmation of a higher order. Even when he was living on instant ramen noodles and trying to find his way into the industry, Mars knew he didn’t just want to be a songwriter or a singer or a producer, but—like Prince, or maybe Michael Jackson—a total pop package, the kind of artist who’s as powerful in the studio as they are onstage. Those records, though: “Uptown Funk,” “Locked Out of Heaven,” “That’s What I Like.” Fun, omnivorous, generation-bridging. The kind of stuff that Mom will be pulling you onto the dance floor for. Mars could do old-fashioned showmanship, could credibly play the crooner with a live band to boot. But he also had an ear for hip-hop and R&B, could—like all great pop—collapse the distance between then and now, Black music and white. Most of all, he knew how much retro was retro enough: Music that made you think about the past, not pine for it. Born Peter Hernandez in Honolulu in 1985, Mars took the stage early, famously doing Elvis impersonations with a family revue at a local hotel before he even hit kindergarten. (In one formative moment, young Mars wet his jumpsuit during “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” but finished without flinching.) As a teenager, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a deal with Motown Records. The deal went nowhere, but Mars kept himself afloat by writing and producing with a team called The Smeezingtons, which he helped found. In 2010, he released his debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. By 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox, the image had gotten a little grittier, the sound a little more diverse, and the retro affectations—goodbye, pompadour—a little less pronounced. Leaning on the slick bounce of ’80s and ’90s funk and R&B, 24K Magic followed in 2016, sweeping its nominations at the Grammys. A confessed perfectionist, Mars pushes on. “All the statues or Time magazine—that s**t is beautiful and made my parents and my family proud and all that,” he told Apple Music. “But there’s this battle within—that you always wanna. You got this fighter’s spirit. I still feel like I’m chasing to prove something to myself, that I got a better song in me.” - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart HistoryLady Gaga2009 01 Just Dance (feat. Colby O'Donis) -1- MILLIONAIRE2009 01 Poker Face -2- MILLION SELLER2009 04 Paparazzi -3- MILLIONAIRE2009 83 Beautiful, Dirty, Rich -AT-2009 19 LoveGame -4-2009 12 Chillin' (Wale feat. Lady Gaga)2009 01 Bad Romance -5- MILLION SELLER2009 01 Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) -6- MILLIONAIRE2009 07 Alejandro -7-2009 68 Monster -AT-2009 84 So Happy I Could Die -AT-2009 89 Dance In The Dark -AT-2009 88 Speechless -AT-2011 03 Born This Way -1*- MILLIONAIRE2011 08 Judas -2*-2011 06 The Edge Of Glory -3*- MILLIONAIRE2011 13 Hair -PS-2011 23 Yoü And I -4*-2011 16 Marry The Night -5*-2011 87 White Christmas -AT-2013 05 Applause -1-2013 09 Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) -2-2013 76 Venus -PS-2016 12 Perfect Illusion -1-2016 39 Million Reasons -2-2016 66 A-Yo -IG-2017 19 The Cure -NAS-2018 01 Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST- MILLIONAIRE2018 27 I'll Never Love Again (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST-2018 25 Always Remember Us This Way -OST- MILLIONAIRE2020 05 Stupid Love -1-2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) -2- MILLIONAIRE2020 17 Sour Candy (Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK) -IG-2020 29 Alice -AT-2022 24 Hold My Hand -OST-2022 22 Bloody Mary -6*-2024 02 Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) -1- MILLIONAIRE2024 07 Disease -2-2025 03 Abracadabra -3-2025 23 Garden Of Eden -AT-2025 13 The Dead Dance -OST/4-6 x #1 | 12 x Top 5 | 17 x Top 10 | 25 x Top 20 | 33 x Top 40 | 41 x Top 100Bruno Mars2010 01 Nothin' On You (B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars)2010 03 Billionaire (Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars) MILLIONAIRE2010 97 It's Better If You Don't Understand -EP-2010 01 Just The Way You Are (Amazing) -1- MILLION SELLER2011 01 Grenade -2- MILLION SELLER2011 11 Marry You -4- MILLIONAIRE2011 01 The Lazy Song -3- MILLIONAIRE2011 10 Lighters (Bad Meets Evil feat. Bruno Mars)2011 78 Count On Me -AT-2011 19 Runaway Baby -AT-2011 14 It Will Rain -OST-2011 17 Mirror (Lil Wayne feat. Bruno Mars)2011 44 Young, Wild & Free (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa feat. Bruno Mars)2012 02 Locked Out Of Heaven -1- MILLIONAIRE2013 02 When I Was Your Man -2- MILLIONAIRE2013 12 Treasure -3- MILLIONAIRE2013 62 Gorilla -4-2014 83 Young Girls -5-2014 01 Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars) MILLION SELLER2016 05 24K Magic -1- MILLIONAIRE2016 79 Chunky -AT-2017 12 That's What I Like -2- MILLIONAIRE2017 59 Versace On The Floor (Bruno Mars vs. David Guetta) -3-2018 05 Finesse (feat. Cardi B) -4- MILLIONAIRE2018 65 Wake Up In The Sky (Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars & Kodak Black)2019 12 Please Me (Cardi B & Bruno Mars)2021 20 Leave The Door Open (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -1-2021 45 Skate (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -2-2021 12 Smokin Out The Window (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -3-2021 49 Fly As Me (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -AT-2024 02 Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE2024 02 APT. (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars) MILLIONAIRE2025 32 Fat Juicy & Wet (Sexyy Red & Bruno Mars)2026 05 I Just Might -1-5 x #1 | 13 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 23 x Top 20 | 24 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100Social Media Lady Gaga Bruno Mars
February 20Feb 20 If we can go a year without an old song getting reset and becoming a serial ACR dodger I will be over the moon!
February 20Feb 20 Really does show how dire the music scene was last year - treating this like Think Twice in stats
February 20Feb 20 Author 27 | | 1st weekCharli xcxDying For YouSoundtrack song from Wuthering HeightsReleased: 13th February 2026Label: Interscope RecordsChart StatisticsNE (26/02/2026) | 27Sales: -Certification: -Status: Standard Chart Ratioxx Salesxx Audio Streamingxx Video StreamingVideoBiographyCharli xcx’s creative drive and willingness to take risks has made her one of the most enthralling pop artists of her era. Whether she’s penning defiantly joyous singles like “Boom Clap” or exploring her glitchier, chaotic side on “Vroom Vroom”, Charli’s success comes from her work both in and out of pop music’s formulaic lane. Born Charlotte Aitchison in 1992 in Cambridge to Scottish and Gujarati Indian parents, she took up songwriting at 14, lifting her stage name from her instant messenger handle. On the strength of her MySpace uploads and performances at London raves, she landed a record deal at 18, released the modestly successful darkwave cuts “Stay Away” and “Nuclear Seasons”, and then hit the big time with 2012’s kiss-off anthem “I Love It”. Originally scrapped from her own album for being too poppy, the beat-pounding re-recording by Swedish duo Icona Pop quickly became a worldwide dance-floor favourite. Her goth-tinged debut album, 2013’s True Romance, and tracks like the psychedelic, Gold Panda-sampling “You (Ha Ha Ha)” soon positioned Charli as the missing link between Grimes’ freak scene, Lorde’s dark melodies and Carly Rae Jepsen’s sweetness. But while that album and its follow-up, 2014’s synth-poppy Sucker, brought Charli a few steps closer to mainstream approval, she found more creative freedom among the esoteric, hyperpop wilds of 2016’s Vroom Vroom EP and 2017’s twin mixtapes, Number 1 Angel and Pop 2. While stardom eluded her, Charli built a track record as a prolific songwriter and collaborator, penning standard pop hits for Iggy Azalea (“Fancy”) and Selena Gomez (“Same Old Love”), and working with the likes of Lil Yachty, David Guetta and BTS. Yet Charli shines brightest when she’s illuminating, breaking down and even critiquing the industry that gives her acclaim. In 2020, a year after the release of her eclectic, star-studded third album, Charli, she released the intimate how i’m feeling now, an album written in six weeks during the pandemic with input from fans alongside extensive, real-time video diaries and notes. Two years later, she experimented with the act of selling out on her fourth album, CRASH, using her major record label’s A&R expertise to write the mainstream pop record she’d always been afraid to release. That album’s success, coupled with a prominent feature (“Speed Drive”) on 2023’s blockbuster Barbie soundtrack, brought Charli closer than ever to worldwide appeal. But her response was to turn back to the sounds that inspired her to make music in the first place. Her 2024 album, BRAT, is a homage to those riotous, sweaty London clubs of her youth, and an introspective—if not slightly ironic—look at her pop music journey, one riddled with head-empty euphoria (“Club classics”), dominating swagger (“Von dutch”) and sombre sentimentality (“I think about it all the time”). - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart History2013 01 I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE2013 62 SuperLove -NAS-2014 05 Fancy (Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE2014 06 Boom Clap -1-2014 35 Break The Rules -2-2015 08 Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) -3-2016 29 After The Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty) -NAS-2017 31 Boys -NAS-2017 35 Dirty Sexy Money (David Guetta & Afrojack feat. Charli XCX & French Montana)2018 22 Girls (Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX)2018 13 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) -1-2019 70 Blame It On Your Love (feat. Lizzo) -2-2019 61 Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX)2019 58 Gone (Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens) -3-2021 94 Spinning (No Rome, Charli XCX & The 1975)2021 06 OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie)2021 44 Good Ones -1-2022 24 Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama) -2-2022 70 Used To Know Me -3-2022 24 Hot In It (Tiësto & Charli XCX)2023 09 Speed Drive -OST-2023 41 In The City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith) -NAS-2024 26 Von dutch -1-2024 11 360 -2-2024 24 Talk talk (Charli xcx & Troye Sivan) -5-2024 07 Sympathy is a knife (Charli xcx & Ariana Grande) -6-2024 28 Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde) -PS-2024 08 Apple -3-2024 63 365 -AT-2024 01 Guess (Charli xcx & Billie Eilish) -4-2025 19 party 4 u -AT-2025 54 Everything is romantic -AT-2025 26 Chains Of Love -OST-2026 27 Dying For You -OST-2026 33 Always Everywhere -OST-2 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 9 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 25 x Top 40 | 35 x Top 100Social Media Charli xcx
February 20Feb 20 Hopefully Dying for You climbs to get a top 20 peak at least Edited February 20Feb 20 by ElectroBoy
February 20Feb 20 This instantly jumped out as a smash hit to me when listening to the soundtrack a week ago, great that it has indeed connected
February 20Feb 20 Author Just now, Jessie Where said:I'm not overly keen on this Charli project overall, but this is great!I feel similarly actually - this was my highlight and is a great track, but the project as a whole kind of washed over me sadly.
February 20Feb 20 Author 26 | 39 | 4th weekBella Kayiloveitiloveitiloveit1st single from a couple minutes outReleased: 11th January 2026Label: Bella KayChart StatisticsNE (05/02/2026) | 93-63-39-26Sales: 20,000+Certification: -Status: Standard Chart Ratioxx Sales87 Audio Streamingxx Video StreamingVideoBiographyCalling to mind a more stripped-down version of Gen Z pop singer/songwriters like Olivia Rodrigo or Gracie Abrams, Bella Kay's plaintive, aching, acoustic guitar-driven body of work began amassing in the summer of 2025 with the viral "The Sick," which claimed tens of millions of streams in its first few months of release. The track and follow-up "Lonely" became the centerpieces of her debut EP sick to my stomach, released that fall and promoted by a tour with Liberian-born folk singer Mon Rovia. Kay entered more upbeat (but still heartfelt) territory with her next harmony-stacked single, 2026's "iloveitiloveitiloveit." - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart History2025 72 The Sick -1-2026 26 iloveitiloveitiloveit -1-0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100Social Media Bella Kay
February 20Feb 20 4 minutes ago, gasman449 said:If we can go a year without an old song getting reset and becoming a serial ACR dodger I will be over the moon!More likely to win the lottery unless the rules change 😆Glad they played the better Charli track but do we need to hear all 3 🤣 Edited February 20Feb 20 by 777666jason
February 20Feb 20 Just now, 777666jason said:More likely to win the lottery unless the rules change 😆Glad they played the better Charlie track but do we need to hear all 3 🤣Yes! Much rather hear 3 songs new to the top 40 than them skip new ones and play ones we’ve heard time and time again!
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