Whenever, Wherever

Uh, now, why everyone is talking about it? Because this isn't the f- their first time together.

Back in January 2024, Kygo and Ava Max released Whatever, a song that, uh, reworked Shakira's Whenever, Wherever with a chorus that flips the original love message into a breakup rebuke.

It hit number one in Norway, top 10 in Sweden, and went platinum in several countries, including the US, UK, and France, where it diamond.

Also, Wikipedia notes that it had mixed reviews from critics, which is funny because fans clearly didn't care.

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That was If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul, who tragically passed away from a heart attack at the age of 48 in 1988.

He has song number 1500 on Billboard's top 3000 songs of all time.

And he's our newest member of the Century Club, songs that end at the century mark.

Following song 3000 is This Love by Survivor.

Song 2900, Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.

And hello, everybody.

Welcome to the back nine of this countdown.

We are doing the final 1500 songs, starting with this one, episode 76.

Like, I started here in 2018, and I know I haven't been here for the whole time, but that is one of the hardest ones I've ever had to choose.

So we had Britney Spears, Toxic, Shakira, Whenever, Wherever.

Yeah.

And Kerry Hilson, Knock You Down.

So in her native Colombia, she was already a star and her popularity before laundry service was growing, I think, rapidly throughout Latin America, throughout parts of Europe.

mostly thanks to her 1995 record, Pies Descalzos, which I think featured a sound that was pretty distinct from Whenever, Wherever.

Here is one of, I think, the best songs off of that album.

It's called Antología.

This is World Cafe.

And it's the first of a four-part series called Before the Breakthrough.

It's so wild that she had MTV Unplugged before she released her huge breakthrough laundry service in 2001 that had like whenever, wherever on it.

Yeah, I think like it definitely endeared her to like American critics.

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For a point, which rock band fronted by David Coverdale had consecutive hits in 1987 with the songs Still of the Night- Is This Love and Here I Go Again?

Oh, uh, oh, oh, is it White Snake?

Yes.

So good luck.

Here's your first question, Ben, for a point.

During the noughties, the songs Whenever, Wherever, Underneath Your Clothes, and She Wolf were all major hits for which Colombian female star?

That'd be Shakira.