Category Archives: song of the day

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Song of the Day #6,033: ‘Feather’ – Sabrina Carpenter

Sabrina Carpenter has released six albums since 2015, a fact that makes her Best New Artist Grammy nomination a bit of a head-scratcher.

The song at #25 on last year’s Billboard year-end Hot 100 is from her fifth album, 2022’s Emails I Can’t Send. ‘Feather’ was released as a single from the deluxe edition of that album, and became her first song to reach the Top 40 (it peaked at #21). Of course, her next three singles all reached the top three, so I guess it’s that “overnight” success the Grammys are acknowledging.

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Song of the Day #6,032: ‘Water’ – Tyla

The top-selling album of 2024 was Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, but none of its songs made the year-end top 20. For all of its phenomenal success (juiced by frequent special edition re-releases), Tortured Poets didn’t really break through to the wider culture. If it had, lead single ‘Fortnight’ would be higher than #22 on this list.

At #23 is Luke Combs’ ‘Fast Car,’ the Tracy Chapman cover that reached #8 on the prior year’s list.

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Song of the Day #6,031: ‘Paint the Town Red’ – Doja Cat

SZA holds both the 19th and 20th slots on the year-end Billboard Hot 100. Yesterday’s ‘Saturn’ is followed up by ‘Snooze,’ a hit from her album SOS that was so big it first showed up at #9 on the 2023 year-end list.

At #21 is the second Doja Cat song of the week. ‘Paint the Town Red,’ the lead single from her 2023 album Scarlet, also showed up on that 2023 list, at #52. It was Doja Cat’s first solo #1 hit late that year, and carried that success into 2024.

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Song of the Day #6,030: ‘Saturn’ – SZA

Male artists might have dominated the top ten of the year-end Billboard Hot 100, but the ladies hold eight of the ten positions in the rest of the top 20.

At #18 is Chappell Roan with ‘Good Luck, Babe!,’ a song I slot just behind Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Espresso’ on my own Song of the Year lineup. And coming in at #19, with the first of two tracks in the top 20, is SZA.

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Song of the Day #6,029: ‘Agora Hills’ – Doja Cat

The next songs on the year-end Billboard Hot 100 are a pair of bangers: Billie Eilish’s ‘Birds of a Feather‘ at #15 and Sabrina Carpenter’s ‘Please Please Please‘ at #16.

At #17 is the second single from Doja Cat’s 2023 album Scarlet. ‘Agora Hills’ is a sexy love song named for Agoura Hills, the city where Doja grew up. The intentional misspelling is a nod to agoraphilia, the love of public life and crowds, as the song references going public with a love affair.

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