Song of the day for March 6, 2025
Heat Waves by Glass Animals is today’s featured song.
On this day in 2022 British indie rockers Glass Animals topped the Billboard Hot 100 with “Heat Waves.” After its initial chart entry in 2021, the Mercury Prize-nominated quartet’s slow-burning sleeper hit took a long road to the top, hitting the summit of the US charts in its 59th week, eclipsing the previously held record by Mariah Carey, whose “All I Want For Christmas Is You” took 35 weeks to ascend to the No.1 spot in 1994. By September 2022, “Heat Waves,” which peaked at No.5 in the UK, had accrued over two billion streams on Spotify. The record’s longevity has been attributed to the influence of social media, in particular TikTok.
