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This week: Spotlight moments at the olympics help boost a number of songs, while an ’00s Sean Paul favorite finds new life and a U.K. superteaming starts to make U.S. inroads.
‘Stateside’ for the Gold & More Olympics-Related Bumps
It’s been a good 2026 so far for PinkPantheress. Her new version of Fancy That highlight “Stateside” — included on remix album Fancy Some More?, and co-starring Zara Larsson — caught fire to begin the year, helped by an eye-catching music video brilliantly showcasing the two buzzy stars, and sped to the top 30 of the Billboard Hot 100. Now, thanks to U.S. ice skating star Alysa Liu, the song might be headed towards its biggest week yet.
Liu won gold medals in both the singles and team women’s figure skating events at the Milan Winter Olympics, which just concluded on Sunday (Feb. 22). And while much about Liu made headlines and captured hearts, one recurring theme of hers throughout her events and interviews was her love of PinkPantheress, as Liu called PP’s Heaven Knows her “perfect 10 out of 10 album,” and also made her love of To Hell With It‘s “Passion” known, earning a response call from the artist herself thanking her for her support. To cap it off, Liu performed a free-skate routine to the “Stateside” remix, even recreating some of Pink’s choreography from the video.
Consequently, “Stateside” has been blowing up on streaming, racking up nearly 1.8 million official on-demand U.S. streams on Monday (Feb. 23), the day after her final routine — an 88% gain over the 952,000 she amassed the prior Monday (Feb. 16), according to early data provided by Luminate. The song has continued to climb on DSPs in the days since, moving into the top 10 on Apple Music’s real-time chart and climbing to No. 2 on Spotify’s Daily Top Songs USA chart.
PinkPantheress isn’t the only pop luminary who Liu has been boosting with her routines. Earlier in the week, Liu performed to Laufey’s “Promise,” resulting in the 2023 song scoring 1.3 million streams over the first four days of this tracking week (Feb. 20-23), a 67% gain over the four-day period the week before. (Laufey also shouted Liu out at a recent live performance, saying she “brought [the song] such new life.”) And she also skated to Donna Summer’s Hot 100-topping disco rendition of the Jimmy Webb-penned “MacArthur Park,” which brought that song up 976% in streams and 4,787% in sales (to 481,000 and 1,500, respectively) over that same period, earning thanks from Webb himself.
Liu wasn’t the only U.S. gold medal-winner offering streaming and sales bumps this past weekend: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic rock staple “Free Bird,” victory song for the U.S. Men’s Hockey team, also rose 78% in streams (to 1.2 million) and 478% in sales (to 1,500) over Feb. 22-23 from the same period the week before, following the squad’s gold-clinching overtime win over Canada. And though he ultimately fell short of the gold, U.S. skating star Ilia Malinin’s performance to rapper NF’s 2025 hit “Fear” led to that song posting 578,000 streams over that same timespan, a gain of 38% from the week before. – ANDREW UNTERBERGER
20 Years Later, Sean Paul & Keyshia Cole’s ‘Give It Up’ Still Gets People Moving
Much has been made of “2026 being the new 2016,” but what if this year is actually the second coming of 2006? That year, the very first Step Up movie hit theaters, accompanied by a stacked soundtrack that included Sean Paul and Keyshia Cole’s classic “(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me.” Notably, the song also appeared on the Jamaican dancehall icon’s The Trinity LP, which arrived the previous year, albeit as a solo version.
Exactly 20 years later, “Give It Up” is back in the zeitgeist, thanks to the increasingly frequent convergence of TikTok dance trends and edits that traverse the Avatar fandom, anime and tributes to Y2K-era Jessica Alba. According to Luminate, “Give It Up” pulled just over 690,000 official on-demand U.S. streams during the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1. Seven weeks later, that figure vaulted 187% to over 1.98 million official streams earned last week (Feb. 13-19).
Naturally — since dance plays a key role in both Step Up and the “Give It Up” music video — dance has been the primary driving factor behind the song’s resurgence. At the top of the year (Jan. 3), TikTok user @kate.nita.off posted a dance challenge in a clip that’s collected 11.6 million views to date, kicking off one choreography trend. Two weeks later (Jan. 16), TikTok user @lea._.meep shared her dance challenge in a post that has since garnered over 14 million views. Both clips focused on Cole’s verse, as did popular thirst traps (5.5 million views and 1.3 million likes) and Alba fancams (7.8 million views and one million likes). The official “(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me” TikTok sound currently plays in over half a million posts.
On Monday (Feb. 23), Sean Paul himself hopped on the trend, posting a TikTok of himself lip-syncing to his parts of the chorus; that clip has since earned 5.7 million views and nearly a million likes. The Grammy winner shared a similar post on Instagram on Wednesday (Feb. 25), attaching a sped-up version of the song that currently soundtracks over 62,000 Reels. There are also several Avatar and anime–centric edits soundtracked by “Give It Up,” all with hundreds of thousands of views each.
With Paul’s new Stalk Ashley-assisted single arriving on Friday, maybe he’ll be the latest artist to harness the allure of nostalgia to power more recent releases. — KYLE DENIS
America No Longer ‘Rein’ing In Sam Fender & Olivia Dean U.K. Smash
It was a big moment for British rock star Sam Fender last Friday (Feb. 20) when his People Watching album highlight “Rein Me In” took the top spot on the U.K. Official Songs Chart for the first time. Not only was it Fender’s first time topping the chart, but he did it with a song that had been lingering on the listing for 35 weeks — making it the longest rise to No. 1 in the chart’s history. The song of course has hit new levels of exposure in recent months thanks to the meteoric rise of the guest duet vocalist on its single version: Olivia Dean, who has since ascended to global superstardom, and is expected to dominate the BRITs this Saturday (Feb. 28).
But it’s not just the artists’ home country where “Rein” is reaching escape velocity. In the U.S., the song has also been climbing steadily, growing from 767,000 official on-demand U.S. streams for the tracking week ending Jan. 29 to nearly 1.5 million three weeks later, a gain of 95%. (The song debuts at No. 38 on Billboard‘s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart this week as a result.) It’s got a ways to go before it can match the biggest crossover hits off Dean’s The Art of Loving, but if it keeps growing at this rate (and perhaps if a big BRITs moment with the two goes viral?) it could be on pace to become Dean’s eighth Hot 100 hit — and Fender’s first. – AU
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