Does Tinashe Already Have a Breakout Hit From Her Acclaimed ‘Popstar’ Album?
Categoria: Musica
This week's Trending Up looks at the fastest-growing track from one of the year's best-received pop albums, as well as a new seasonal standard and a synch-friendly TV reboot.
Por Billboard | 07/10/2026
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: One track from Tinashe’s rapturously received Popstar album begins to separate from the pack, a perennial Girl in Red streamer is hitting harder than ever this autumn, and a reboot of a long-beloved sitcom helps boost some new R&B favorites. Tinashe’s ‘Popstar’ Moment Eyes Breakout Hit In ‘Melatonin’ After 15 years of relentlessly innovative work, a highly publicized stint in record-label purgatory and sporadic moments of crossover commercial success, multi-platinum singer-songwriter Tinashe finally snagged her first Billboard 200 top 10 album with the aptly titled Popstar this week (chart dated Oct. 10). The 16-track set features several buzzy singles, but the dance-pop banger “Melatonin” is posting the most notable gains. Initially dropped as a pre-release single on Aug. 13, “Melatonin” surged 255% in streaming activity following the full release of Popstar. In the week preceding the album’s release (Sept. 18-24), “Melatonin” collected 405,000 official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate. During Popstar release week (Sept. 25-Oct. 1), “Melatonin” earned 1.44 million official streams. Not only has the song marked Tinashe’s inaugural appearance on Hot Dance/Pop Songs (No. 10), but the track has also continued to grow in Popstar’s second week of release. During the four-day period of Sept. 25-28, “Melatonin” logged 697,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. A week later (Oct. 2-5), that figure improved by 40% to over 980,000 official streams. With Popstar maintaining its buzz and Tinashe hitting the stage for a few shows in the coming week — including an opening set for the Arizona stop of Harry Styles’ massive Together, Together tour — “Melatonin” just might end up following in the Billboard Hot 100 footsteps of “2 On,” “Nasty” and “No Broke Boys.” — KYLE DENIS ‘Fell in Love’ Again and Again: Girl in Red Seasonal Staple Sees Even Bigger ‘October’ Gains It’s that time of year where every new month brings with it the return of an appropriate streaming staple to pop culture prominence. Two months ago it was Taylor Swift’s “August,” and last month it was of course Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” — which actually returned to the Hot 100 this year, for the first time since its original late-’70s run. Now, it’s alt-pop singer-songwriter Girl in Red ‘s time. “We Fell in Love in October” has proven a sweater-weather perennial every autumn since its 2018 release , having reached as high as No. 14 on Billboard ‘s Hot Rock Songs chart (in 2019) and No. 104 on the Global 200 (in 2024) thanks to those annual streaming