Behind the scenes, millennial psych rock overlord Kevin Parker has been an element on the pop charts for years by way of work with artists like Girl Gaga, Travis Scott, and Dua Lipa. These days, the person in any other case often known as Tame Impala has been having fun with unprecedented pop-chart success of his personal.
Tame Impala broke by way of into a brand new degree of mainstream visibility final fall with “Dracula,” the “Thriller”-ish single from his dance-oriented Deadbeat album that appears destined to be a staple of Halloween playlists for many years. Upon its debut, “Dracula” turned Tame Impala’s first music to chart on the Billboard Scorching 100. It has since entered into the High 40 radio slipstream and turn out to be a real-deal hit. (Listening to Tame Impala pop up within the automotive with my children on the best way to Wendy’s was surreal.) And now, with an important Ok-pop help, “Dracula” has turn out to be Tame Impala’s first high 10 hit.
The unique model of “Dracula” topped out at #25. However a remix that recasts the music as a duet between Parker and Jennie from Blackpink has surged even greater. “Dracula (Jennie Remix)” had been up as excessive as #15. This week, it climbs from #18 to #10. That makes it the highest-charting music Parker has ever labored on, surpassing the #1 peak of Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” in 2023, Billboard studies.
“Dracula” is now Jennie’s highest-charting music ever within the US too. Beforehand, she reached #55 as a solo artist with “One Of The Ladies,” a collab with the Weeknd and Lily-Rose Depp from The Idol. Even with Blackpink, she by no means received this excessive; the Selena Gomez collab “Ice Cream” topped out at #13.
We’re specializing in Tame Impala right here as a result of that is an indie-focused music weblog and he emerged from our house turf. However there’s a good larger story on this week’s Scorching 100. Ella Langley, the pop-country star whose “Choosin’ Texas” has been the nation’s #1 music for many of the previous two months, now has #1 and #2 locked down. “Choosin’ Texas” stays at #1 for a ninth nonconsecutive week, and now “Be Her” has risen to #2.
Langley is the twenty seventh artist to monopolize the highest two spots on the chart and “the primary lady recognized for primarily recording nation music” to do it. (That is particularly exact wording due to the Taylor Swift of all of it.) Right here is Billboard‘s breakdown of which artists have held down the 1-2 earlier than, and for what number of weeks:
10 weeks: The Beatles
8 weeks: OutKast
7 weeks: Drake
6 weeks: Justin Bieber, T.I.
5 weeks: Ashanti, Iggy Azalea, Bee Gees, Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams
4 weeks: The Black Eyed Peas, Diddy, Nelly
3 weeks: 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Kendrick Lamar, Usher
2 weeks: Akon, DaBaby
1 week: Unhealthy Bunny, Mariah Carey, Future, Ariana Grande, Ella Langley, Metro Boomin, Morgan Wallen, The Weeknd
Moreover, Langley has a 3rd music within the high 10, as her new Morgan Wallen duet “I Can’t Love You Anymore” sits at #8. Remarkably, Olivia Dean having two songs within the high 10 is not near being the most important chart story this week. “Man I Want,” her #2-peaking mega-hit that looks like it is going to by no means fairly recover from the hump to hit #1, is at #4 this week, whereas “So Simple (To Fall In Love)” holds at #6. It is a magnification of an ongoing Scorching 100 phenomenon wherein Langley’s success has overshadowed Dean’s.
The remainder of the highest 10: Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Lifeless” at #3, Bruno Mars’ “I Simply May” at #5, Alex Warren’s “Extraordinary” at #7, and Kehlani’s “Folded” at #9.
