Highway Unicorn

Plus your average teenager in 2025 is far more likely to engage with Calvin Harris tracks (both old and new) than a teen in 2012 was with Robbie - speaking from experience as a 14 year old music nerd in 2012 whose friends didn’t care for Williams at all.

its chart run is still to funny to me (15-1-12)

Me but with It Girl

One thing ive missed since the digital age took over was the lack of local stars. Love that these two can still get hits in their native country without being global superstars.

Anything on the new long awaited Cardi b sophomore album yet. It’s already #4 on Apple UK but none of the individual tracks seems to have charted yet.

To be fair i dont even think Raye / her tesm expected Genesis to be that big of a hit, given it is a seven minute jazz song with only part 2 of it being somewhat commercially viable. Think that was more of a blank check post brits to display her artistry and honestly it doing as well as it did was a minor miracle and a testament to her x factor. I literally cannot see another artist outside of the tier 1 superstars even trying something like that.

Yeah these Halloween playlists can be really odd, Apple biggest HW playlist also includes - Ella Henderson ‘Ghost’, Iggy Azalea ‘Black Widow’ Nicole Scherzinger ‘Poison’ and most egregiously for me ‘Sugar Sugar’ by The Archies. Spotify isn’t much better tbh, their biggest Halloween playlist includes Beyonce ‘Sweet Dreams’, Will.I.Am & Britney ‘Scream & Shout’, The Weeknd ‘Blinding Lights’, Marina ‘Bubblegum B!tch’, ABBA ‘Gimme Gimme’, Nicki Minaj ‘Super Freaky Girl’, Michael Sambello ‘Maniac’, Steps ‘Scared of the Dark‘

Most of Gaga’s discography from her imperial phase gets a boast around Halloween (Judas, Bloody Mary, Monster) I imagine both Dead Dance and Abracadabra will be the same this year. Maybe Die with a Smile too considering how basically anything with a somewhat spooky title gets a boost - Little Magic’s "Black Magic" goes back into the Apple top 100 every year despite their nothing spooky about that song at all.

The Kesha stans started mass streaming because it was the only song on animal/cannibal that didn’t have any credits from Dr Luke. After that it went viral on TikTok for a bit and been a consistent streaming streaming hit ever since. The titular track from "Cannibal" is probably going silver next too, it’s been a stable for Halloween party playlists all decade but especially after 2022, when the Netflix Dahmer drama premiered and everyone started realising what the Dahmer references in pop songs meant (specifically ‘Cannibal’ and Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’).

Go Go Juice seems to be the track that TikTok has taken an inkling towards. Will be interesting to see how it performs over the weekend.

To be fair, Raye didn’t even have an album out pre-Escapism and none of back catalogue sounds anything like Escapism or anything she released, to the point where she barely even perform anything anymore. It’s only been "Natalie Don’t" (a deep cut) and her jazz rearrangements of her dance features.

Is this the first time it’s appeared in the top 200? Been hearing out all summer long.

The people are nostalgic for dance remixes to old Florence songs, I guess.

Is Cell Block Tango is the first song from the Chicago OST to get certified?

Both of them are sooo getting nominations across the board (Album, Single, Artist) their respective genre category (Sam for Rock and I imagine Olivia for both Pop & R&B, a la Raye) and Best New Artist for Olivia.