13 Songs You Didn’t Know Were Big Hits Right Now

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A tour of the more surprising — and kind of anonymous — corners of the current Billboard Hot 100.Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:07.0	Catch the Outer Bank sunrise.
0:12.0	Every day of all lives, find a little spot in Arizona.
0:16.0	Decorate the kitchen with a taxman.
0:19.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your side stage mirror of music music criticism.
0:23.6	I'm John Caramonica, music critic at the New York Times.
0:26.6	I'm Joe Costcarelli. I am a reporter at the New York Times.
0:30.6	Joe, at the beginning of this episode, we were listening to, I'm just going to say it,
0:37.0	a song that I'm willing to bet most of the people
0:39.2	listening to this episode have never heard before. And that song is not only is it number 91 on the
0:46.4	Billboard Hot 100 right now, it is apparently the number one song in Country Radio Airplay right now.
0:51.9	It's called Hometown Home. It it's by low cash and we arrived at
0:56.8	this i've listened to this song a few times previously but we arrived at this because you and i were on
1:01.3	the phone yesterday sort of being like what's the deal man it's the same seven people
1:07.5	top of the album charts top of the singles charts and we're like, well, what's really going on?
1:12.0	As we looked lower and lower in the Billboard Hot 100, we saw all these songs that we just
1:16.4	did not know.
1:18.2	Didn't know existed.
1:19.8	Either we didn't know the artist existed.
1:22.3	We didn't know the song existed.
1:24.4	You've heard of it vaguely.
1:26.3	There are definitely a couple of songs that we're going to talk
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