Taking a break from ‘What the Kids are Listening To’ to acknowledge today’s Thanksgiving holiday (apologies to the international readers). Mostly I didn’t want to post a Chris Brown song on a family holiday.
Thanksgiving doesn’t really have songs, certainly not like Christmas or even Halloween. But I did find this lovely ballad by Mary Chapin Carpenter which I think does the trick.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Taylor Swift holds the #13 spot on the latest Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Elizabeth Taylor,’ the second track on The Life of a Showgirl. The first four songs on the album remain in the top 20, suggesting enough people are interrupted in their listening to show diminishing returns for later tracks.
At #14 is a repeat of the fake band featured yesterday, KPop Demon Hunters‘ Saja Boys. While yesterday’s ‘Soda Pop’ was a straightforward song about young love, ‘Your Idol’ hints at the disguised demons’ true intent.
The HUNTR/X song ‘Golden,’ from the Netflix animated smash hit KPop Demon Hunters, became one of the few songs by a fictional band to reach #1 on the Hot 100.
But ‘Soda Pop,’ by another fictional band in the same film, wasn’t too far behind. This one, by the boy band Saja Boys, made it to #3 on the chart and 19 weeks into its run is still at #12. Not bad for a cartoon group.
Returning to my latest installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ we’ve arrived at #11 on the most recent edition of the Billboard Hot 100.
‘Back to Friends’ is the lead single from singer-songwriter Sombr’s debut album, I Barely Know Her. This is actually Sombr’s 19th single overall, as he’s spent the last four years dropping non-album singles along with an EP. But thanks primarily to TikTok exposure, this is his first release to find a wide audience.
It’s hard to believe that 17 years and 6,348 songs into my daily blogging enterprise I had yet to feature the recording often called the worst song of all time.
Well, that oversight is remedied today, as Starship’s ‘We Built This City’ was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of December 23, 1985. Yes, today we’re throwing back to a time when ‘We Built This City’ was an unironic hit.
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