In June 2023, a series starring The Weeknd, ‘The Idol’, was presented. The series was a critical and public failure, but its soundtrack survives. Lately, ‘One of the Girls’ with JENNIE and Lily Rose Depp has gone viral, and The Weeknd’s collaboration with Madonna and Playboi Carti has never left the global list of the most listened to on Spotify in 8 months.
Due to its appearance in Fortnite and its success on TikTok (from where it has just been removed as part of the Universal catalog), ‘Popular’ has not stopped climbing the charts after the New Year. It has been resurrected in several countries such as the United States, Ireland, Italy or France (never Spain, its worst Western market), and now it has finally climbed to the top 10 in the United Kingdom.
Fed with already the obligatory absurd string of accelerated, decelerated, instrumental, a cappella remixes, with swear words and without swear words, which none of the interested parties have promoted in any way or form, the song manages to get this medal. It rises from position 14 to position 10 on its way to platinum status. It has been certified gold or platinum in Greece, Italy, Denmark, Belgium, New Zealand, Poland and Portugal and by mid-2024 it will exceed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
This is the first top 10 of Playboi Carti’s career in the United Kingdom, the 16th for The Weeknd and the 61st for Madonna, who had not achieved a top 10 in the islands since 2009, when she achieved it with ‘Celebration’. The OCC indicates that it is the 64th when counting aside two reissues of ‘Holiday’ and another of ‘Crazy for you’.
All Madonna’s top 10 in the UK:
1984 02 Holiday
1984 02 Borderline
1984 03 Like A Virgin
1985 03 Material Girl
1985 02 Crazy For You
1985 01 Into The Groove
1985 05 Angel
1985 04 Gambler
1985 05 Dress You Up
1986 02 Live To Tell
1986 01 Papa Don’t Preach
1986 01 True Blue
1986 04 Open Your Heart
1987 01 The Beautiful Island
1987 01 Who’s That Girl
1987 04 Causing A Commotion
1987 09 The Look Of Love
1989 01 Like A Prayer
1989 05 Express Yourself
1989 03 Cherish
1989 05 Dear Jessie
1990 01 Vogue
1990 02 Hanky Panky
1990 02 Justify My Love
1991 03 Rescue Me
1992 03 This Used To Be My Playground
1992 03 Erotica
1992 06 Deeper And Deeper
1993 10 Bad Girl
1993 06 Fever
1993 07 Rain
1994 07 I’ll Remember
1994 05 Secret
1995 04 Bedtime Story
1995 08 Human Nature
1995 05 You’ll See
1996 10 You Must Love Me
1996 03 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
1997 07 Another Suitcase In Another Hall
1998 01 Frozen
1998 02 Ray Of Light
1998 10 Drowned World (Substitute For Love)
1998 06 The Power Of Goodbye
1999 07 Nothing Really Matters
1999 02 Beautiful Stranger
2000 01 American Pie
2000 01 Music
2000 04 Don’t Tell Me
2001 07 What It Feels Like For A Girl
2002 03 Die Another Day
2003 02 American Life
2003 02 Hollywood
2003 02 Me Against The Music (Britney Spears feat. Madonna)
2005 01 Hung Up
2006 01 Sorry
2006 07 Get Together
2006 09 Jump
2008 01 4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)
2008 07 Give It 2 Me
2009 03 Celebration
2024 10 Popular (The Weeknd & Madonna feat. Playboi Carti)
All The Weeknd’s top 10 in the UK:
2015 04 Earned It
2015 03 The Hills
2015 03 Can’t Feel My Face
2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk)
2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)
2016 03 Die For You
2018 07 Call Out My Name
2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd)
2019 10 Heartless
2019 01 Blinding Lights
2021 02 Save Your Tears
2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd)
2021 10 Hurricane (Kanye West & Lil Baby)
2022 10 Sacrifice
2022 07 Creepin’ (Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage)
2023 10 Popular (The Weeknd & Madonna feat. Playboi Carti)
