Highway Unicorn

I wonder if Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ can be reset this week (and potentially top 40 again?) Just hit the top 100 on Spotify for the first time (#79, +32) and is sitting #135 on Apple.

Enough for a reset and go top 40 again the week?

Now tied with ‘Breaking Free’ as the highest certified HSM track now (obviously not including Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘All I Want’ from the reboot series). Not surprised, it’s been a millennial karaoke staple for some time now, and arguable the most “normal” (can be listened to without the context of the film) and well aged song from the entire series (someone said it’s basically a Jojo song and I’ve not been able to hear it as something but ever since).

This being Gold purely because of a Gavin & Stacey needledrop. Now tied with ‘Breaking Free’ as the highest certified HSM track now (obviously not including Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘All I Want’ from the reboot series). Not surprised, it’s been a millennial karaoke staple for some time now, and arguable the most “normal” (can be listened to without the context of the film) and well aged song from the entire series (someone said it’s basically a Jojo song and I’ve not been able to hear it as something but ever since).

Their best song imo.

+18 Tyla - Push 2 Start +15 Olivia Dean - It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be +13 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train +12 Oasis - Slide Away +11 Addison Rae - Headphones On +10 Jade - FUFN (F*ck You For Now) +9 Rosalía feat. Björk & Yves Tumor - Berghain +8 Levi Heron - The Glen +7 Sammy Virji & Skepta - Cops & Robbers +6 PinkPantheress - Illegal +5 Lola Young - D£aler +4 Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You +3 Lady Gaga - Garden of Eden +2 Jennie - Like Jennie +1 Abor & Tynna - Baller

What has been skipped in the top ten? The only things I can recall for political themed to avoid breaking impartiality.

lol at pushed single being outperformed like this.

this is kind of an odd choice for a pride playlist. I far as I’m aware Boone’s fanbase is mostly young straight woman and the occasionally Gen X/xillennial men who like that a new pop star still has old choice rock star showmanship. The only type of LGBT-ness I’ve seen vis-à-vis him is how he is queerbaiting (flamboyantly feminine outfits, suggestive posing with other men), and how gay men find him attractive. I guess there could be an unrequited love aspect (the middle 8 and final chorus is about him running after a girl he’s still in love with) that a queer reading could be placed but it’s a stretch though. Still a fantastic song though so not complaining.

Had this as her total at first when compiling the above list, but she’s credited as a feature artist and not a co-lead on Not Letting Go and couldn’t find any history archive to suggest otherwise. So kept her overall & lead only as they are in the OP.

Didn’t notice these errors. Thank you.

Fun chart stat. Went into research mode with the talk of Olivia Dean potentially being no.1 this week and potentially soon after as well, with combination of “So Easy”/“Rein Me In”. This would be one of the quickest accumulation of three No.1’s for a British woman (or women led group) ever. If Olivia Dean's two more number one’s occur by the charted dated Friday March 27th (which does seem likely), she would be the quickest British female solo artist to amass three No.1 singles as a lead artist (it would be 189 days [27 weeks] since “Man I Need” went number one). The current quickest is currently Geri Halliwell, whom amassed her first three number ones in 30 weeks. If you include her feature on “Hot Right Now”, Rita Ora is the quickest at 27 weeks. The Spice Girls are the quickest overall female act with 23 weeks. Every British woman with at least three number ones below (and how long it took for it to occur). Spice Girls (161 days, or 23 weeks) • Wannabe (July 21, 1996) • Say You’ll Be There (Oct 20, 1996) • 2 Become 1 (Dec 22, 1996) Rita Ora (overall) (189 days, or 27 weeks) • Hot Right Now (Feb 19, 2012) • R.I.P. (May 14, 2012) • How We Do (Party) (August 19, 2012) Geri Halliwell (210 days, or 30 weeks) • Mi Chico Latino (Aug 22, 1999) • Lift Me Up (Nov 7, 1999) • Bag It Up (March 19, 2000) All Saints (231 days, or 33 weeks) • Never Ever (Jan 11, 1998) • Under the Bridge/Lady Marmalade (May 3, 1998) • Bootie Call (Sept 6, 1998) Jess Glynn (overall) (427 days, or 1 year and 9 weeks) • Rather Be (Jan 26, 2014) • My Love (Mar 7, 2014) • Hold My Hand (Mar 29, 2015) Sugababes (539 days, or 1 year and 25 weeks) • Freak Like Me (April 28, 2002) • Round Round (Aug 18, 2002) • Hole in the Head (Oct 19, 2003) Alexandra Burke (630 days, or 1 year and 38 weeks) • Hallelujah (Dec 21, 2008) • Bad Boys (Oct 18, 2009) • Start Without You (Sept 12, 2010) Billie Piper (686 days, or 1 year and 46 weeks) • Because We Want To (July 5, 1998) • Girlfriend (Oct 11, 1998) • Day & Night (May 21, 2000) Leona Lewis (714 days, or 1 year and 50 weeks) • A Moment Like This (Dec 24, 2006) • Bleeding Love (Oct 27, 2007) • Run (Dec 7, 2008) Olivia Newton-John (770 days, or 2 years and 6 weeks) • You’re the One That I Want (June 11, 1978) • Summer Nights (Sept 24, 1978) • Xandau (July 20, 1980) Pixie Lott (819 days, or 2 years and 13 weeks) • Mama Do (June 14, 2009) • Boys & Girls (Sept 13, 2009) • All About Tonight (Sept 11, 2011) Rita Ora (lead only) (819 days, or 2 years and 13 weeks) • R.I.P. (May 14, 2012) • How We Do (Party) (August 19, 2012) • I Will Never Let You Down (May 17, 2014) Sandie Shaw (917 days, or 2 years and 27 weeks) • (There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me (Oct 16, 1964) • Long Live Love (May 21, 1965) • Puppet on a String (Apr 21, 1967) Cheryl (Cole) (966 days, or 2 years and 34 weeks) • Fight For This Love (Oct 25, 2009) • Promise This (Oct 31, 2010) • Call My Name (June 17, 2012) Jess Glynn (lead only) (1,175 days, or 3 years and 11 weeks) • Hold My Hand (Mar 29, 2015) • Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself (Mar 29, 2015) • I’ll Be There (June 16, 2018) Little Mix (1,316 days, or 3 years and 32 weeks) • Cannonball (Dec 11, 2011) • Wings (Sept 2, 2011) • Shout Out to My Ex (July 19, 2015) Jessie J (1,330 days, or 3 years and 34 weeks) • Price Tag (Feb 6, 2011) • Domino (Jan 15, 2012) • Bang Bang (Sept 27, 2014) Dua Lipa (1,519 days, or 4 years and 9 weeks) • New Rules (Aug 18, 2017) • One Kiss (Apr 30, 2018) • Cold Heart (Oct 15, 2021) Girls Aloud (1,547 days, or 4 years and 13 weeks) • Sound of the Underground (Dec 22, 2002) • I’ll Stand By You (Nov 21, 2004) • Walk This Way (Mar 18, 2007) Ellie Goulding (2,322 days, or 6 years and 13 weeks) • Burn (Aug 18, 2013) • One Kiss (Feb 8, 2018) • Cold Heart (Dec 27, 2019) Lily Allen (2,695 days, or 7 years and 19 weeks) • Smile (July 9, 2006) • The Fear (Feb 1, 2009) • Somewhere Only We Know (Nov 24, 2013) Adele (3,897 days, or 10 years and 33 weeks) • Someone Like You (Feb 20, 2011) • Hello (Oct 30, 2015) • Easy On Me (Oct 22, 2021) Alternatively, the next two women likely to join this group (Charli XCX and Raye). XCX would overtake Adele’s current record (10 years, 33 weeks) to amass three number ones whenever she gets her 3rd (currently on 13 years since “I Love It”), whilst Raye would fall between Jess Glynn and Dua Lipa at 3 years however many weeks, if another song from her sophomore album goes number 1 by the end of 2026.

I assume that’s probably being saved for the week after the Brits where both him and Olivia will inevitably perform and sweep.

Her only having one No. 1 prior to 2022 is also wild in retrospect, and that sole No. 1 being arguably her worst song too.

Three different Freya Skye songs on here is interesting, I wonder if Global thinks they were too slow to see Olivia R. and Sabrina coming out of the Disney channel machine as stars and decided to get in on Freya early. (Guess it also helps she’s English too).

Abor & Tynna - Baller Addison Rae - Fame Is A Gun Addison Rae - Headphones On AJ Tracey & Jorja Smith - Crush Alex Warren feat. Rosé - On My Mind Ariana Grande - Intro (End of the World) Charli xcx - Chains of Love Cynthia Erivo & Jonathan Bailey - As Long As You're Mine Denon Reed & Cru2 - Let Him Go Fontaines D.C. - It's Amazing To Be Young J-Hope feat. GloRilla - Killin' It Girl Jade - FUFN (F*ck You For Now) Jennie - Like Jennie Jennie feat. Doechii - ExtraL Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You Justin Bieber - All I Can Take Lady Gaga - Garden of Eden Levi Heron - The Glen Lola Young - D£aler Miley Cyrus - End of the World Oasis - Slide Away Olivia Dean - It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be Olivia Dean - Let Alone the One You Love Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train PartyNextDoor & Drake - CN Tower PinkPantheress - Illegal PinkPantheress - Tonight Remember Monday - What the Hell Just Happened? Rosalía feat. Björk & Yves Tumor - Berghain Sammy Virji & Skepta - Cops & Robbers Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia Sombr - We Never Dated SZA - BMF SZA feat. Kendrick Lamar - 30 for 30 Tame Impala - Dracula Twenty One Pilots - The Contract Twice - Takedown Tyla - Push 2 Start Tyler, the Creator - Sugar On My Tongue

Amazon Music new tracks Sombr - homewrecker Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe Calvin Harris & Kasbian - Release the Pressure Nothing from J. Cole so far.

KATSEYE and Benson Boone still broke out via reality tv so wouldn’t exactly see it’s over (globally).

Lush Life has overtaken Man I Need as the No. 1 on Amazon Music. Midnight Sun also reaches a new peak of No. 26 The Myles and Niall track the only new track to enter so far at No. 97.

Is there a reason for four different Rihanna songs gaining boasts at the same time?

Good boats for Bad Bunny, I wonder what it will be liked after the Super Bowl next Sunday.

Why the sudden bump do the Sex and The City theme music?

Anything new showing up on AM yet?

89 weeks for Robbie solo is really impressive considering his career peak was before the advent of digital downloads where songs could spend 4-8 weeks in the top ten instead 2-4 weeks in the physical era. Only five of singles spent at least five weeks in the top ten • Angels - 12 weeks • Rock DJ - 5 weeks • Eternity - 5 weeks • Tripping - 6 weeks • Candy - 6 weeks

Reminds of when Megan McKenna started making country music, went #1 on iTunes in 2017 and every press outlet run with "Big Brother star Megan McKenna dethrones Taylor Swift from top of the charts"