Wicked fever reaches Billboard's Top Movie Songs chart, powered by Tunefind ... including the entire top four. Grande's "Popular" follows "Defying Gravity" at No. 2, boasting 35.1 million streams ...

Thank goodness! For musical theater kids everywhere who have been eagerly waiting for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande's vocal ...

"Wicked" has bewitched even its most reluctant ... in Erivo's nearly eight-minute rendition of the musical's most popular song, "Defying Gravity," originally sung by Idina Menzel in the Broadway ...

to be "popular" instead. Elphaba continues the song until the end of the film, relishing in her newfound individuality — the very thing that will earn the label of "wicked." “Defying Gravity ...

As the theatrical and sing-along versions of Wicked are now streaming, I revisited the 2024 phenomenon for the first time ...

Wicked is simultaneously a campy parody and a corruption of Baum’s popular story ... with gynophobic bitterness expressed in the opening song “No One Loves the Wicked.” ...

In all, four songs from Wicked, which premiered in theaters on Nov. 22, 2024, appear on the January 2025 Top Movie Songs chart. Grande’s “Popular” is the next highest after “Defying ...