{"id":178969,"date":"2025-12-11T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:28:10","slug":"heated-rivalry-synch-songs-from-feist-wet-leg-more-see-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178969\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heated Rivalry’ Synch Songs From Feist, Wet Leg & More See Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWelcome to Billboard Pro\u2019s\u00a0Trending Up<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThis week: A viral TV drama leads to growth for a number of its featured soundtrack artists on streaming, while Cameron Winter and his main band reap the benefits of year-end list season and more. <\/p>\n

\t\tSteamy Gay Hockey Drama \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Spurs Streaming Gains for Little Mix, Wet Leg & Feist\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tHeated Rivalry \u2014 a steamy new Crave-produced gay hockey drama that\u2019s airing in the States on Max and based on Rachel Reid\u2019s Game Changers series \u2014 has quickly taken over the Internet with just its first three episodes. Led by actors Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, the Jacob Tierney-helmed show is also making a real-world impact, with the series trailer airing during the Tampa Bay v. Montreal NHL game<\/a> on Tuesday night (Dec. 9).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first episode, which aired on Nov. 28, featured a needle-drop of Feist\u2019s \u201cSealion\u201d to close out the much-talked about locker room scene<\/a>, leading to 6,600 official on-demand U.S. streams during the four-day period of Nov. 28-Dec. 1, according to Luminate. By the following week (Dec. 5-8), \u201cSealion\u201d jumped 155% to 17,000 official streams. The second episode, which hit streaming alongside the first, opens with Wet Leg\u2019s \u201cMangetout,\u201d which rose 61% to over 226,000 official streams during the four-day period of Dec. 5-8.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe third and most recent Heated Rivalry episode arrived on Dec. 5, and followed the story of a different, but equally compelling, couple. The episode opens with Wolf Parade\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ll Believe In Anything,\u201d which spiked 60% to over 23,000 official streams (Dec. 5-8), and closes with Baxter Dury\u2019s \u201cLips,\u201d which vaulted a whopping 14,351% to over 19,000 official streams (Dec. 5-8). The latter song earned just 137 official on-demand U.S. streams during the four-day period of Nov. 28-Dec. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFinally, Heated Rivalry has naturally invigorated the online \u201cedit\u201d community, with hundreds<\/a> of heart-wrenching<\/a> video<\/a> montages<\/a> flooding social media over the past two weeks. Though it has not appeared in the series, Little Mix\u2019s \u201cSecret Love Song, Pt. II\u201d \u2014 which beautifully captures the show\u2019s theme of nurturing love in the shadows \u2014 has emerged as the main Heated Rivalry edit song. During the four-day period of Nov. 28-Dec. 1, \u201cSecret\u201d logged 30,000 official on-demand U.S. streams. That figure rose nearly 40% to 42,5000 official streams by the period of Dec. 5-8.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith three more episodes still to go in its first season, expect to hear a whole lot more about Heated Rivalry in the new year. \u2014 KYLE DENIS\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tGetting Killed With Kindness: Geese (and Geese Frontman) Streams Boosted by Year-End Lists\t<\/p>\n

\n\tGeese\u2019s third album, Getting Killed, has represented a critical and commercial breakthrough for the Brooklyn indie band \u2014 with the pivot toward more outlandish, often caustic songwriting and elliptical structures earning the group rave reviews upon the September release and its biggest live crowds to date in the following months. Now, with year-end season providing a flurry of critics\u2019 best-of lists, Getting Killed is scoring a new round of acclaim \u2014 top 10 showings on the New Yorker, Stereogum, Rolling Stone and Paste lists, among many others \u2014 and so is Heavy Metal, the lovably weird debut solo album from Geese frontman Cameron Winter, which came out last December but is being lumped in with lots of 2025 music lists. While Pitchfork named Getting Killed the No. 7 album of 2025, for instance, they ranked Heavy Metal the No. 3 album of the year \u2014 and Winter\u2019s shambolic pop anthem \u201cLove Takes Miles\u201d as the best song of 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe critical double-dipping for Winter has boosted streams for his own music and that of his ascendant band: Geese\u2019s Getting Killed earned 1.66 million official on-demand U.S. streams from Dec. 3-6, a 41% bump from the previous four-day period before year-end lists starting rolling out, according to Luminate. Heavy Metal had fewer streams (964,000) from Dec. 3-6 but is experiencing an even larger percentage bump (up 74%), while \u201cLove Takes Miles\u201d has more than doubled its streams thanks in part to the Pitchfork co-sign. The song earned 106,000 streams from Nov. 28-30; in the three days after Pitchfork\u2019s best songs of 2025<\/a> list was unveiled on Dec. 1, that number rose to 223,000 streams, a 110% increase. \u2014 JASON LIPSHUTZ<\/p>\n

\t\tSienna Spiro Eyes Global Breakthrough as Two Viral Tracks Continue Their Ascent\u00a0\t<\/p>\n

\n\tBritish singer-songwriter Sienna Spiro first earned some traction with 2024\u2019s \u201cMaybe,\u201d and, this year, she earned her first U.K. Official Singles top 10 hit with \u201cDie on This Hill,\u201d one of her two rising tracks that appear to signal a very major 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tStreaming activity for \u201cHill\u201d has risen 466% over the past seven weeks, mostly due to the TikTok virality of the song\u2019s bridge. During the week of Oct. 10-16, \u201cHill\u201d earned 547,000 official on-demand U.S. streams; that figure ballooned to a little over three million official streams by the week of Nov. 28-Dec. 4. On TikTok, the official \u201cHill\u201d sound<\/a> plays in over 200,000 posts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou Stole the Show,\u201d which arrived in July ahead of a September U.K. tour, laid the groundwork for \u201cHill,\u201d reaching No. 54 in the U.K. The song\u2019s chorus proved the big draw \u2014 soundtracking lyrical dance combinations<\/a> and wedding clips<\/a> alike \u2014 earning over 626,000 official streams during the week of Oct. 10-16. By the week of Nov. 28-Dec. 4, \u201cShow\u201d exploded 226% to just over two million official streams. On TikTok, the official \u201cShow\u201d sound<\/a> plays in 21,000 clops, while an unofficial sound<\/a> credited to Spiro\u2019s account boasts an additional 34,200.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the top of next year (Feb. 28), Spiro will compete against Jacob Alon and Rose Gray for the 2026\u2019s Brits Critics\u2019 Choice Award. \u2014 K.D.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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