{"id":577869,"date":"2026-07-31T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:06:08","slug":"michelle-branch-new-radicals-the-game-of-love-makes-chart-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/577869\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Branch & New Radicals\u2019 \u2018The Game of Love\u2019 Makes Chart Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichelle Branch<\/a> extends her history on Billboard\u2019s charts to more than 25 years, as her new version of \u201cThe Game of Love,\u201d her early 2000s smash, debuts on Adult Pop Airplay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe update, with fellow veteran hitmakers New Radicals<\/a>, enters the Aug. 8-dated list at No. 33, thanks to play on outlets including KBIG Los Angeles, WBMX Boston and Music Choice, according to Mediabase, which provides airplay data for Billboard\u2019s radio rankings via data tracker Luminate.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original version \u2014 by Santana featuring Branch \u2014 dominated Adult Pop Airplay for 13 weeks in 2002-03. Gregg Alexander, the longtime frontman of New Radicals, and Rick Nowels cowrote the song.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reimagination introduces Branch\u2019s EP Everywhere and Back Again, due Nov. 6. Her first collection on BMG<\/a> features other new interpretations of her hits.<\/p>\n

\n\tBranch boasts five top 10s among 10 Adult Pop Airplay entries, going back to her breakthrough, \u201cEverywhere,\u201d which hit No. 9 in 2001; it brought her Billboard chart debut when it arrived on the list dated June 30 that year. She returned to the top 10 with \u201cAll You Wanted\u201d (No. 4, 2002), \u201cThe Game of Love,\u201d \u201cAre You Happy Now?\u201d (No. 3, 2003) and a second Santana collaboration, \u201cI\u2019m Feeling You\u201d (No. 6, 2005). She makes her first appearance this week since 2011, when \u201cLoud Music\u201d reached the top 20.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original \u201cThe Game of Love\u201d became Branch\u2019s highest-charting hit on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, climbing to No. 5. It also won the Grammy\u00a0for\u00a0best pop collaboration with vocals in 2003.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c\u2018The Game of Love\u2019 has been such a special song in my life, made possible by one of my personal musical heroes, Gregg Alexander,\u201d Branch shared in a statement upon the new version\u2019s release July 15. \u201cBeing able to sing this together with him is really a full circle moment and captures the original spirit of the demo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBranch\u2019s chart accomplishments also encompass her run as half of The Wreckers<\/a>. In 2006, the pair, which she formed with Jessica Harp, hit No. 1 on Hot Country Songs with \u201cLeave the Pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNew Radicals likewise stretch their notable Billboard chart history, which began in 1998 with their signature hit, \u201cYou Get What You Give\u201d (whose \u201cone, two \u2026 one, two, three, ow!\u201d intro is mirrored in that of the new \u201cThe Game of Love\u201d). The single, which Alexander and Nowels also cowrote, rose to the Hot 100\u2019s top 40 and led Adult Alternative Airplay for six weeks in 1999.<\/p>\n

\n\tBranch is set to begin her Everywhere and Back Again Tour, which kicks off Sept. 27 and runs through Nov. 13. (Included is a Nov. 7 date at The Muse in Nantucket<\/a>, Mass.)<\/p>\n

\n\tAll charts dated Aug. 8 will update Tuesday, Aug. 4, on Billboard.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Branch extends her history on Billboard\u2019s charts to more than 25 years, as her new version of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-577869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}