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Song of the Day #5,762: ‘Suspicion’ – Terry Stafford

It’s fun to throw back to the first few months of 1964 and see the full force of Beatlemania. The week of April 11 that year, for example, found ‘Can’t Buy Me Love‘ and ‘Twist and Shout‘ in the #1 and #2 spots, respectively. ‘She Loves You,’ ‘Please Please Me,’ and ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ also appeared in the top ten.

A week earlier, the Fab Four occupied every one of the top five slots, so kudos to the man who broke that stranglehold this week by making it to #3. That was singer-songwriter Terry Stafford, whose recording of ‘Suspicion’ gave him the biggest hit of his career.

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Song of the Day #5,761: ‘Wanted’ – Perry Como

Throwing back to the week of April 10, 1954, we find Perry Como atop the Billboard singles chart with ‘Wanted,’ a song that would spend two months in the #1 spot and become the best-selling track of that year.

‘Wanted’ was the eighth of 11 #1 hits for Como between 1945 and 1958, and he had 36 other top ten releases during that span. I guess he was his era’s Drake.

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Song of the Day #5,760: ‘End of Beginning’ – Djo

Closing out the latest installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ we find Taylor Swift at #10 with ‘Cruel Summer,’ the hit that just keeps on hitting. This marks 46 weeks on the Hot 100 for the song that first appeared on 2019’s Lover before getting a single release a few years later.

We are just a week away from the release of Swift’s next album, The Tortured Poets Department, and I expect she’ll have quite a few new songs on this chart (as in a whole album’s worth) shortly thereafter.

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Song of the Day #5,759: ‘Enough (Miami)’ – Cardi B

Cardi B’s latest single, ‘Enough (Miami),’ debuted at #9 on the most recent Billboard Hot 100, giving the rapper her 12th top ten hit, and eighth as the lead artist.

This is the second single from Cardi B’s upcoming sophomore album, following 2021’s ‘Up,’ which reached #1. I was surprised to learn that she has released only one album, 2018’s Invasion of Privacy. She has been pretty prominent since she hit it big in 2017, mostly on the strength of features and non-album singles.

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Song of the Day #5,758: ‘Greedy’ – Tate McRae

At #8 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 is ‘Greedy,’ the best performing single to date by Canadian dancer-turned-singer Tate McRae.

Unless I’m confusing her for somebody else, McRae is an artist my daughters have described as being forced down their throats. Reading about the TikTok rollout of ‘Greedy,’ which involved the artist and label aggressively pushing snippets of the track onto the platform (as opposed to letting it pick up steam organically), I guess I see what they mean.

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