 | Sports CarTate McRae |
Writer(s): Tate McRae, Julia Michaels, Ryan Tedder, Grant Boutin (see lyrics here) Released: January 24, 2025 First Charted: February 5, 2025 Peak: 16 BB, 11 RR, 11 A40, 3 UK, 9 CN, 8 AU (Click for codes to charts.) Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, 0.6 UK, 1.92 world (includes US + UK) Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 77.13 video, 697.91 streaming |
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About the Song:Singer/songwriter and dancer Tate McRae was born in Canada in 2003. In 2016, she was a contestant on So You Think You Can Dance. She charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020 with “You Broke Me First” (#16). She released her first album, I Used to Think I Could Fly, in 2022. Her next album, 2023’s Think Later, gave McRae her biggest hit yet with “Greedy” (#3, Billboard Hot 100). Her next album, 2025’s So Close to What, sent three songs into Billboard’s top 40. The most successful was “Sports Car” (#16), a “blunt message here is that there are few greater pleasure enhancers than a fat wallet, particularly if you can uh-uh in its spoils.” PF “Her minimalist sex song of tire squeaks, engine revs, and ASMR-whispered findom demands.” PF It “might be the most emblematic of her skill set as a modern hitmaker: a slick, combustible banger that translates to both top 40 radio and a choreo-heavy arena show. McRae stays comfortable with her flirtatious cooing in the opening chorus, then drops the hammer: a whisper chorus, both audacious and undeniable.” BB’25 “Sports Car” shares the “hyper-sexual” RS’25 quality of the Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (The Whisper Song),” released two decades earlier. “Sports Car” also “has a whisper chorus…and plenty of her own horny lines – most memorably ‘So good it hurts / Thinkin’ ’bout what we did before this verse.’ Sonically, it echoes Y2K pop like Nelly Furtado and Britney Spears, but with a fresh update.” RS’25 Resources:
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First posted 1/19/2026. |
