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Soft Cell reunited in 2001, producing the Top 40 album Cruelty Without Beauty.

On “New Heights” she and Kelce talked about the new album as a “180” from the moody confessions of “Tortured Poets,” whetting appetites for the kind of crisply hooky Taylor Swift songs that blanketed Top 40 radio in the mid-2010s.

Then again, another unprecedented chart achievement from the album’s first week is already shedding some light on the matter: “The Fate of Ophelia,” the album’s lead single, is the first song ever to debut inside the top 10 of Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart — an indication of the heavy Top 40 radio play it’s getting along with the millions of daily streams that have kept it atop Spotify’s U.S.

She has had three UK top 40 singles and one top 10 album.

That person might start the year vibing with Sudanese jazz, only to take a “recommended” detour through indie electronica, before flirting with Britpop and finally scream-singing Top 40 like it’s the only music that matters.