You might need wanted a crystal ball to foresee a service like Spotify again in 1996, when Chic recorded their self-titled LP. However almost three a long time later, “Santeria,” one in every of that album’s largest hits, has turn into a fixture on the streaming platform. As of this week, the track has joined Billions Membership, having racked up multiple billion performs on Spotify alone. It’s Chic’s first track to achieve that milestone.
“Santeria” was a No. 3 different radio hit and an MTV fixture within the mid-Nineties, when Chic emerged as one of many decade’s defining albums. Launched within the wake of frontman Bradley Nowell’s premature loss of life, the Lengthy Seaside ska-punk trio’s major-label debut spun off hits like “What I Got,” “Wrong Way,” and “Doin’ Time,” later lined by Lana Del Rey. “The trio’s bright, wired bounce and the shell-game shuffle of funk beats, snappy Jamaican rhythms and mosh-pit, shout-it-out choruses in Nowell’s writing – that’s the stuff of a band with great promise and the confidence to make good on it,” raved Rolling Stone upon the album’s launch.
Within the streaming period, “Santeria” has endured as arguably the band’s hottest monitor, partially by its inclusion in video video games reminiscent of Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 3, and Rocksmith 2014. Like many of the album, it was produced by the Butthole Surfers’ Paul Leary. Chic constructed “Santeria” out of the chords and guitar solo from a earlier track, “Lincoln Highway Dub,” which featured on their prior album, 1994’s Robbin’ the Hood, infusing that framework with a vivid new lyrical narrative from Nowell.
Chic’s first entry into the Billions Membership comes simply months after the discharge of “Ensenada,” the reactivated band’s new chart-topping single. Returning Chic to No. 1 on the Billboard Various Airplay chart for the primary time since “What I Got” in 1996, the monitor is taken from a forthcoming album—the band’s first since Bradley’s son Jakob Nowell took over lead vocal and guitar duties, becoming a member of founding members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh.
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