She warns an ex that she’s The Best You’ll Ever Have, and she has now earned a spot among WMR’s all-time greats. Katie Belle holds on to the top place of the WMR 100 for a second straight week with her breakup song, and she’s once again leading an all-female podium: last week’s bronze medalist Dotter upgrades to silver this week, moving to #2 with No Room for Love, while Kelly Clarkson climbs up three places from #6 to claim the third place with Favorite Kind of High. While all three of their tracks are thematically related to love in some way, Clarkson’s is the most upbeat of the trio, while the other two are closer to breakup songs.
But that’s not every form of love song covered on this week’s list: trailing closely behind the podium is Mimicat at #4 with the highest-ranked non-English-language song of the week in Ai coração, a quirky track that could very well describe an agonizing wait for a loved one to either arrive or sort out their feelings.
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