Who doesn’t love a little bit of nostalgia and a visit down reminiscence lane?
Reminding us of a less complicated time after we might keep out partying all evening, with out severe repercussions, and had been oblivious to figuring out how again ache might strike after finishing an on a regular basis activity.
It appears the reply can be many people, with the inaugural Spotify Australia Monthly Trends Report lifting the lid on the most recent tendencies on this planet of music for July 2023.
Wham! loved an uplift in streams due to their Netflix documentary reminding audiences how a lot they cherished to Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, whereas solace was taken within the music of each Sinead O’Connor and Tony Bennett after their demise.
Both had been mourned by means of their music as they charted one and two respectively within the artists who noticed the most important enhance in streams, month-on-month, at a staggering 405 (O’Connor) and 294 (Bennett) per cent.
Filtered to artists who first launched music pre-1990, the nostalgia continued with essentially the most streamed artists final month topped by Fleetwood Mac, adopted by Elton John, Queen, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Beatles.
Music’s capacity to right away transport these listening to it again to a sure time and place of their lives, flooding them with recollections of how they felt throughout that period is a outstanding present from any singer or musician.
You keep in mind the place you had been whenever you heard Bohemian Rhapsody for the primary time, the way it made you’re feeling to sing your coronary heart out to Bennie and the Jets on the dance ground with your folks and even to the way it elevated a favorite film second.
And whereas it comes as little shock that Barbiecore positioned Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Gosling as a prime two trending artist on this identical Spotify report, due to the ‘Kenergy’ of his Barbie hit tune I’m Just Ken, the micro-genre of Bubblegum Dance — a style rising out of Denmark within the Nineties that introduced the world Aqua’s Barbie Girl — additionally loved an nearly 250 per cent enhance in streams in comparison with earlier months.
Now that’s one thing for Barbie to go occasion about.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
