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This week: The legendary Quincy Jones’ catalog sees an enormous bump after his passing, a ’70s hitmaker formally turns into one of many huge names of spooky-season streaming, a 2003 pop-rock jam will get an enormous horror synch and extra.
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Quincy Jones Catalog Explodes on Streaming Following Legend’s Passing
Late Sunday night time (Nov. 3), Quincy Jones, a 28-time Grammy-winning large who performed a key position in a number of the world’s most impactful artworks throughout the music, movie, tv and the stage, handed away surrounded by household in his Bel Air residence. In commemoration of Jone’s near-unquantifiable legacy, followers have discovered solace in a few of his greatest musical contributions.
In accordance with Luminate, Jones’ whole catalog is up 1,229% in streaming exercise, incomes almost 1.25 million official on-demand streams on the primary full-day following his passing (Nov. 4). On the Monday prior (Oct. 28), Jones’ catalog collected slightly below 94,000 streams.
“Simply As soon as,” a Grammy-nominated single from Jones’ The Dude LP that launched the world to James Ingram is up 632%, incomes 77,000 official on-demand streams on Nov. 4 versus 10,500 streams on Oct. 28. “One Hundred Methods” — one other Jones-Ingram team-up from The Dude (this one really gained its Grammy class) — noticed the same bump, leaping 626% in streaming exercise from a bit over 8,000 official on-demand streams on Oct. 28 to over 60,000 streams on Nov. 4. About 20 years earlier than The Dude, Jones composed the massively influential “Soul Bossa Nova” instrumental, which has been used because the theme tune for all the pieces from 1997’s Austin Powers: Worldwide Man of Thriller to the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Streaming exercise for “Soulful” leapt a whopping 755% from 11,500 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to simply over 98,000 streams (Nov. 4).
After all, “We Are the World,” the Billboard Sizzling 100-topping charity single that gained report and tune of the yr on the 1986 Grammys, is a towering a part of Jones’ far-reaching legacy. That traditional is up 146% in streams from 37,500 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to over 92,000 streams (Nov. 4). With a profession spanning seven many years, Jones hits additionally included Lesley Gore’s timeless 1963 Sizzling 100 chart-topper “It’s My Get together.” That iconic monitor jumped 17% in streaming exercise, going from 33,000 official on-demand streams (Oct. 28) to simply over 39,000 streams (Nov. 4).
As a producer, Jones’ sprawling catalog additionally contains three of probably the most seminal albums in pop historical past: Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982) and Unhealthy (1987). Jones-related features for Thriller and Unhealthy are a bit sophisticated as a result of each home Halloween anthems (the title monitor for Thriller and “Easy Legal” for Unhealthy). Nonetheless, Off the Wall – Jackson’s first Jones-helmed LP – is up 10%, pulling 794,000 official on-demand U.S. streams (Nov. 4) versus 720,000 streams (Oct. 28).
Jones’ oeuvre additionally contains the traditional soundtracks for The Shade Purple and The Wiz. The previous is up 290%, amassing over 41,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on Nov. 4, whereas the latter is up 219%, incomes over 47,000 official on-demand U.S. streams on the identical day.
Jones passing is a very painful one for international popular culture, however he’s left behind an extremely wealthy catalog for us to proceed to revisit and be taught from. – KYLE DENIS
Andrew Gold: The New King of Halloween?
Scan the Sizzling 100 this week and also you’ll see a number of the most acquainted names lengthy related to Halloween music: Michael Jackson (“Thriller,” No. 20), Ray Parker Jr. (“Ghostbusters,” No. 28), Bobby Boris Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers (“Monster Mash,” No. 30) and Danny Elfman – technically “The Residents of Halloween” (“This Is Halloween,” No. 38). However ending slightly below their ranks and outdoors the Sizzling 100 (for now) is a man who is simply come lately to be majorly related to Spooky Season: ‘70s singer-songwriter and pop-rock hitmaker Andrew Gold.
For many of his profession, Gold (who died 2011) in was primarily related to two singles: The heartrending story tune “Lonely Boy” (a No. 7 hit in 1977) and the heartwarming “Thank You for Being a Buddy” (a No. 28 hit in 1978 – although higher related to a Cynthia Price cowl model, used because the theme to the timeless ‘80s sitcom The Golden Women). However due to some TikTok trending that first began on the finish of the 2010s, Gold is now finest identified to youthful followers because the man behind 1996’s “Spooky, Scary Skeletons,” a cartoon-y Halloween quantity that has been remixed and memed to dying over the previous half-decade.
“Skeletons” racked up 11.2 million official on-demand U.S. streams for the week ending Nov. 2, in line with Luminate – an enormous quantity, and a bump of 1,146% from the 898,000 streams the tune notched six weeks earlier. It’s not the one tune of Gold’s to see such features, both, as his whole ‘96 set Halloween Howls: Enjoyable & Scary Music is method up, together with his model of the traditional theme to The Addams Household – which amassed 2.1 million streams for that very same week. All in all, Gold totaled 14.7 million streams for the week, up 1,040% from his 1.3 million complete the week of Sept. 19 – proving that Gold is on the verge of turning into the usual for Halloween-week streaming efficiency. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
Joé Dwèt Filé Eyes Stateside Konpa Hit With “4 Kampé”
The streaming period and elevated globalization have largely leveled the taking part in area for extra area of interest genres to make inroads within the U.S. market – and konpa could possibly be up subsequent. Popularized within the Nineteen Fifties, konpa (generally spelled “kompa”) is a descendant of méringue music that’s characterised by the outstanding use of tanbou drum, buoyant horns and rhythmic guitars.
With “4 Kampé,” Joé Dwèt Filé — a singer, songwriter and engineer of Haitian descent – is eyeing a success single with notable crossover potential. Throughout the interval of Oct. 25-28, “4 Kampé” earned over 393,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. By the post-Halloween interval of Nov. 1-4, consumption exercise for the monitor rose 13%, amassing over 446,000 streams.
Filé began teasing the tune every week earlier than its Oct. 25 launch with a publish that has since garnered over 1.6 million views and over 195,000 likes. Two extra teasers adopted, with every every video incomes extra views than the final. At present, the official “4 Kampé” TikTok sound boasts almost 190,000 posts, with lots of them that includes customers performing the kare dance that historically accompanies konpa music. In simply 12 days, the official “4 Kampé” lyric video hit 3.4 million views on YouTube, whereas the monitor’s official music video crossed two million views in beneath every week.
Though it’s nonetheless early within the tune’s run, these features for “4 Kampé” look promising. – KD
So Yesteryear: Time Reduce Provides Massive Bump to ‘00s Hilary Duff Traditional
Netflix’s time-traveling slasher flick Time Reduce is at the moment the streaming service top-ranked movie, with its ending proving to be a supply of controversy for viewers. However earlier than that was a supply of debate for the film, social media customers had been busy arguing about whether or not a scene from the film launched as a teaser on Netflix’s channels – a high-school hallway montage, meant to mirror teenage life within the yr 2003 – was really all that reflective of the style and types of the time. One alternative was fairly inarguable although: using Hilary Duff’s 2003 pop-rock hit “So Yesterday.”
“Yesterday,” which solely peaked at No. 42 on the Sizzling 100 in Oct. 2003 (however was a lot larger on MTV and Radio Disney-type platforms), is featured because the slow-motion scene’s soundtrack, evoking the cultural second pretty successfully. Unsurprisingly, the clip despatched nostalgic viewers heading to streaming companies to play the interval traditional – “Yesterday” totaled over 85,000 official on-demand U.S. streams mixed for the primary 4 days of November, a 49% achieve over the earlier four-day complete within the prior monitoring week. Not fairly “Unwritten” numbers but, however a very good begin for a tune that has lived within the shadow of Duff’s larger hit “Come Clear” for too lengthy. – AU
