"If you have been paying any attention to the UK singles chart recently, it can hardly have escaped your notice that for the last couple of months it has been utterly dominated by the soundtrack for the Netflix smash KPop Demon Hunters. At the time of writing, Golden, by the cartoon's chief protagonists Huntr/x, is enjoying its seventh week at No 1:"
"Dean's 2023 debut album, Messy, attracted respectful but mixed reviews and did respectable, rather than remarkable, business. It spawned a hit single in Dive, but seemed very much standard-issue stuff tasteful neo-soul replete with vintage horn arrangements, ballads accompanied by lo-fi, slightly out-of-tune piano, tracks that opened with the sound of crackly old vinyl. Its author did the type of things that tasteful British neo-soul artists do: appearing on Jools Holland's Hootenanny belting out You Can't Hurry Love,"
The Netflix soundtrack KPop Demon Hunters has dominated the UK singles chart for months, with Golden by Huntr/x holding seven weeks at No 1 and multiple soundtrack songs restricted in the Top 40 by chart rules. London singer-songwriter Olivia Dean has mounted the most striking challenge: Man I Need has remained at No 2 for a month and is joined in the Top 10 by Nice to Each Other and a Sam Fender collaboration, Rein Me In, while Dive has enjoyed a resurgence. Man I Need ranks among the most-played songs globally on Spotify. Dean's 2023 debut Messy received respectful but mixed reviews and fit tasteful British neo-soul conventions alongside mainstream promotional appearances.
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