![]() 20, at the last of Elton’s three concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. We had both been performing it across the world separately, waiting for the moment we could do so together.” “But there’s also something magical about the same song being played in the same city on the same night with completely different crowds and bringing such a good energy. ![]() “Our touring schedules were like ships in the night - we kept missing each other,” Dua says in her crisp London accent. Nor had they performed the song together or even seen each other’s tours. Yet they hadn’t even been in the studio at the same time when their vocals for “Cold Heart” were recorded. They’d met in person for the first time when they performed together at the 2021 Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards viewing party, and quickly became close. It was the 200-somethingth show of his 330-ish date “ Farewell Yellow Brick Road” final tour, which launched a planned three-year run in September 2018 but is likely to go on for nearly double that time, concluding in Europe next summer (this particular show had been originally scheduled for April of 2020).Īnd even though they didn’t see each other that night, the two friends - Elton and Dua, no need for surnames here - were virtually waving to each other across the East River. Just five miles away, at more or less the same time, the real Elton was playing “Cold Heart” too, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, for a crowd enjoying an equivalent sense of pandemic-delayed renewal and release. On that night at Madison Square Garden, Dua and her tireless troupe of dancers sat on a platform toward the front of the stage, singing with their arms around each other while a video of Elton performing the song filled the screen behind them. 1 on multiple charts across the globe, a multigenerational feat that has earned the pair Variety’s 2022 Hitmakers of the Year honor. Of “Cold Heart,” specifically, he mused, “A lot of it is, of course, due to Dua Lipa’s popularity and the brilliant Pnau remix, but I feel very, very content and happy that I’m relevant.Yet an emotional peak of the show came with a song that was simultaneously new and decades old: “Cold Heart,” her duet with Elton John that blended four of his songs - most prominently his 1972 smash “Rocket Man” and 1989’s “Sacrifice.” The inventive song vaulted to No. “I’ve always tried to be relevant,” John told Billboard upon the release of “Cold Heart” parent album The Lockdown Sessions last year about his longevity. 1 – after winning for top dance/electronic song at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. On the May 21 Hot Dance/Electronic Songs survey, it adds a 31st week at No. 7 on the Hot 100 in January, marking John’s 28th top 10 and crowned Adult Pop Airplay for a week in March. ![]() “Cold Heart” previously hit the top 10 on the Pop Airplay chart last December rose to No. (On the all-genre, multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, the tracks rose to Nos. 39 (a surprisingly low peak in retrospect, given its legacy as one of John’s signature songs) and “Kiss the Bride” missed the chart. 1 on AC for the first time “Sacrifice” reached No. ![]() “Cold Heart” brings three of those songs to No. The new blend sports trio Pnau’s co-writing and co-production. In “Cold Heart,” John sings part of his 1990 hit “Sacrifice” and Lipa reprises his 1972 classic “Rocket Man” and his 1983 single “Kiss the Bride,” with John’s 1976 track “Where’s the Shoorah?” serving as the mash-up’s coda. Meanwhile, Lipa adds her second AC leader, after “Levitating” reigned for 14 weeks beginning last July. He also links his first set of back-to-back No. For John, 2022 joins 19 as years in which he has ascended to the AC summit with multiple songs. ![]() 1 this year, after “Merry Christmas,” with Ed Sheeran, topped the Jan. John also extends the longest span of an artist leading the AC chart: 49 years and a week, from “Daniel” to “Cold Heart.” (That’s almost double the stretch of the runner-up: Chicago spanned 25 years, 10 months and two weeks from “Beginnings” in 1971 to “Here in My Heart” in 1997.) “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” with Dua Lipa, one to-date, May 21, 2022 “Merry Christmas,” with Ed Sheeran, one, Jan. “Something About the Way You Look Tonight,” 10, Nov. “Can You Feel the Love Tonight,” eight, July 9, 1994 “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” with George Michael, two, Feb. “I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That,” one, Aug. “That’s What Friends Are For” (Dionne & Friends Dionne Warwick, John, Gladys Knight & Stevie Wonder), two, Jan. “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word,” one, Dec. “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” with Kiki Dee, one, Sept. Here’s a recap of John’s 18 AC chart-toppers: ![]()
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