Thursday, August 12, 2021
Suicide Squad, which opened in theaters and on
HBO Max on 8/6, has Shazamers’ thumbs working overtime to identify songs by
K.Flay, the
Pixies and
The Jim Carroll Band.
Four songs from the film fly up the
Shazam USA Top 100 while a lone new single,
The Weeknd’s “Take My Breath” (
XO/
Republic), makes it into the Top 5 of the Biggest Movers.
The feature film is bringing attention to K.Flay’s 2014
Bummer Picnic release “Can’t Sleep,”
Grandson’s “Oh No!!!,” which appears on the
WaterTower-released soundtrack, and two classics from the 1980s: the
Pixies’ “Hey” from 1989’s
Doolittle (
4AD) and
The Jim Carroll Band’s “People Who Died,” most recently issued by
Fat Possum.
In the U.K.,
Love Island again dominates the Biggest Movers list with songs from
Billy Lockett & Violet Skies,
LEON and
James Smith, but the week’s top mover comes from the Olympics closing-ceremony broadcast—
Sigrid’s “Home to You.”