FILE PHOTO: Olivia Newton-John sings at her “Greatest Hits Live” concert in Hong Kong on August 18, 2000. The 51-year-old singer will perform with Australian singer John Farnham at the opening ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in September. Photographer Reuters / Reuters / File photo
Fans of Olivia Newton-John turned to her music after the shocking news of her death on August 8, aged 73, after a long battle with cancer. The result of so much devotion and rediscovery is the appearance of their songs on the chart, with 12 songs in the Digital Song Sales Chart compiled by Billboard.
Hopelessly dedicated to you leads its list at number 5, with 5,000 downloads sold in the US last week. The theme was a hit in 1978, when it hit # 3 on the Hot 100.
Olivia Newton-John in 2011 when the film “A Few Best Men” premiered at the Rome Film Festival. Photo: Reuters.
During her career, Olivia Newton-John has had five top-of-the-line songs and fifteen of the Top 10 songs, all between 1974 and 1984. Additionally, she has had two albums on the Billboard 200: If you love me let me know (1974) and You have never been sweet (1975).
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Olivia Newton-John with John Travolta in the musical “Grease”.
This is the list of 12 hits listened to by fans in the last few days:
- # 5, “Hopelessly Dedicated to You”
- # 11, “Magic”
- # 17, “You Are What I Want” with John Travolta
- # 29, “You’ve never been calm”
- # 30, “Physical”
- # 31, “Let me be there”
- # 39, “I love you honestly”
- # 40, “Xanadu” with Electric Light Orchestra
- # 42, “Suddenly” with Cliff Richard
- # 43, “A little more love”
- # 46, “Summer Nights” with John Travolta
- # 48, “Please Mr. Please”
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Olivia Newton-John in the movie “Xanadu”.
In the week from 5 to 11 August, sales of Olivia Newton-John songs increased by 6000%, passing from 800 to 47,000, while the demand to listen to their songs on streaming platforms increased by 615%from 1.6 million to 10.2 million.
The most listened to song that week in the US was You are what I want, which grew 134% and reached 1.9 million. the second was Hopelessly dedicated to youwith 1.8 million streams, an increase of 328%.
Also, Hopelessly dedicated to you led the country music digital sales chart, something she had not achieved in life because it is a chart that began to be compiled in 2010. She had been in the 20th position of Hot Country Songs in 1978, among other hits she had in that list between 1973 and 1998.
As for the soundtrack of the famous film with John Travolta, Fatit returned to the score of the soundtrack at number 5, while the soundtrack of Xanadu ranked 18. Those films include hits like Summer nights, hopelessly devoted to you, you are what I want, magic Y Xanadu.
Newton-John’s death
Olivia Newton-John at a 2007 press conference when she announced a new tour. Photo: Reuters.
Olivia’s husband, John Easterling, was the one who announced that Olivia died peacefully on his ranch in Southern California Monday 8 August in the morning, surrounded by family and friends
Despite having battled breast cancer for more than 30 years, preliminary information that emerged did not determine the cause of her death, although a source close to Oliva told TMZ: “After a 30-year journey against cancer, lost the battle against breast cancer metastasis.
Since 1992, the same disease had manifested itself twice more, in 2012 and 2017. In the latest medical opinion, it was learned that a tumor had been added to the base of the spine.
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