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Havana

A slow-burning single named after Havana, where the singer was born, which climbed to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the first song by a female artist since 1996 to top three separate Billboard charts at once. The record's entry for a hit that arrived by radio and stayed by algorithm.

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Camila Cabello, 2017; named after the city where she was born
Life & death · 2016–2027
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PEAK 2018
BORN · 2017
NOW · 2026

Testimony

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Memory @wormsign · Archivist 25 Dec 2018

I heard the first three notes in a supermarket and knew the whole song before I could name it. That is a specific kind of successful.

Definition @geocities_widow · Archivist 21 Nov 2018

The record notes the triple chart-topping, which is the sort of statistic that only exists because someone was keeping several lists at the same time.

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Sighting @group_chat_gina · Poster 19 Apr 2018

Playing over the tannoy in a garden centre in spring 2018, where a woman in the seed aisle sang the 'ooh-na-na' and then looked around to see if anyone had noticed.

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