The Welsh singer's hit Bonnie Tyler, 1983’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is climbing the Spotify charts as people compile the perfect playlist for the celestial spectacle, with 32 million people in the United States living in the path of totality – meaning the moon completely blocks the face of the sun for a few moments.
A Spotify representative told CNN that searches for Tyler's music have increased almost 50% in the USA last week, and the streaming service expects this growth to be even greater this Monday, until the end of the eclipse.
Tyler's song is the most popular song added to user-generated “Eclipse” playlists on Spotify in the US. It is also popular on iTunes, where it is the tenth most purchased song this Monday, jumping 30 positions in the last day. In addition to searching for music on Google Trends, which also fired.
The song is a favorite among music lovers during eclipses, and Tyler, 72, has commented on the song's popularity on social media, writing in 2011 on X: “Notifications are blowing up. *checks the news* Oh, there’s an eclipse.” Nobody loves the eclipse more than her, probably.
The last time an eclipse occurred in the US in 2017, music download sales increased by more than 500%, according to Billboard. Not bad for a song that was a No. 1 hit for four weeks in 1983.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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