popular song

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Its most popular song, “Lowdown,” was a dance-club hit and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 5 on the R&B chart before winning a Grammy for best R&B song.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

The AI group's most popular song has been streamed more than three million times.

From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025

Megan Stielstra touches on this in her essay about “Nothing Compares 2 U,” the most popular song pitched to the co-editors.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

Netanyahu also visited Bat Yam on Sunday, to chants of "Bibi, King of Israel" - a play on a popular song about the Biblical warrior King David that many Jewish children learn in school.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025

As we passed Capistrano she sang a popular song that I’d heard on the radio: “When the swallows come back to Capistrano.”

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou