A decade ago Brat summer, Charli XCX roared to No.1 Bulletin boardPop Airplay Chart with “Boom Clap”.
The song began a three-week reign on the chart dated September 13, 2014, and marked her first No. 1 single and second overall. He topped Iggy Azalea's “Fancy” for three weeks starting in June.
Backed by their explosive choruses, the songs became Charli XCX's second and third Pop Airplay Top 10s, after fellow Icona Pop anthem “I Love It,” on which she's also featured, peaked at No. 3 on June 2013.
On the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “I Love It” peaked at No. 7. “Fancy” dominated for seven weeks – and earned top honors on the 2014 season-ending Songs of the Summer chart. and “Boom Clap” reached No. 8.
Notably, “Boom Clap” marked the fourth straight Pop Airplay No. 1 by an artist in a first visit to the chart as a lead act, following three consecutive hits: Sam Smith's “Stay With Me,” his “Rude” Magic! 'Am I Wrong' by Nico & Vinz.
“Discovering new artists is one of the many things that keeps radio great,” said Tommy Chuck, senior vice president of programming for iHeartMedia's Tampa and Sarasota, Florida stations. Bulletin board during the crowning of the 'Boom Clap' map.
New acts or not, “great songs win,” said Erik Bradley, Audacy brand manager. “And hits like 'Rude' and 'Boom Clap' are incredible songs.”
“Boom Clap” was released from Charli XCX's album Suckerwhich peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard 200 in January 2015. The song was also fueled by its timing in the hit film The fault in our stars.
In 2016, the Cambridge, England-born artist entered the Top 10 of the Hot 100 as a co-writer of Selena Gomez's “Same Old Love,” while in 2019, she co-wrote “Senorita,” recorded by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. spent a week at No. 1, marking Charli XCX's second lead as a writer, following “Fancy.”
In 2022, Conflict became Charli XCX's first top 10 on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 7. This June, Brat limited to No. 3 best. The Atlantic Records release has yet to leave the top 15 on the chart and has earned 585,000 equivalent albums in the United States as of Sept. 5, according to Luminate. (Later, specifically for this post: “I never thought Bulletin board/ But now, I'm starting to think again, wondering if I think I deserve commercial success,'' he muses on the set's reflective track 'Rewind.')
Meantime, Brat “360” becomes Charli XCX's first Pop Airplay Top 10 since “Boom Clap,” climbing one spot to No. 10 on the chart dated September 21. In addition to her fourth top 10 position on the tally, she marks the highest new entry on the list, as a partner Brat The track “Apple” debuts at No. 36.
Looking back on Bulletin boardJuly cover, Charli XCX called Sucker “An attempt at that by Olivia Rodrigo I'm angry he could do much better. My vision was not fully realized. I was 19 years old. Although I think a lot of the songs I did back then were good songs, I wouldn't necessarily listen to them if another artist put them out. I think I knew that at the time, but I also think I knew it was okay. At the time, I was writing for a lot of other people and I wanted to do that. I knew I probably wouldn't be in them [writing rooms] had 'Boom Clap' and those songs didn't happen the way they did.”
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