So Bonnie Tyler is back in the charts (but only for one day)

Some songs don't end, they make immense turns and then return. One way or another. This is what happened in the last twenty-four hours at “Total eclipse of the heart“, the song that catapulted Bonnie Tyler to the top of the world charts in 1983, becoming one of the most iconic hits of the '80s. Four decades later, the single has reappeared in the charts. The reason?solar eclipse in the USA last Monday 8 Aprilduring which the song by the British singer, now 72 years old, had a peak streams on platforms. In the United States between Monday and Tuesday “Total eclipse of the heart” got

over half a million plays: to be more precise, 699,767. A figure that allowed the single to place in thirty-sixth place on the Daily Top Songs USA, the daily ranking of the most streamed songs on Spotify. Not only that: the song also went as far as second place on the Apple Music chartsthanks to streams and downloads.

“Total eclipse of the heart”, written by Jim Steinman, was originally intended to be performed by Meat Loaf, of which Steinman was right-hand man at the time. The two, however, did not agree and the author decided to entrust the song to the Welsh singer, still looking for consecration after the success of 1977 with “It's a heartache”. It was a triumph: the single, taken from the album “Faster than the speed of night”, reached the top of the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom, selling approximately 60 thousand copies per day at its peak. In all, copies sold exceeded 5 million Inserted in the soundtracks of films, TV series and video games, which increased its popularity, “Total eclipse of the heart” ended up swallowing up the career of Bonnie Tyler herself, who over the years has not been able to produce a single capable of equaling – or even come close to – the results of the 1983 hit.

In the .2013thirty years after her success, Bonnie Tyler was also chosen by the United Kingdom as the country's ambassador toEurovision Song Contest, with “Believe me”. It was a flop: the diva placed nineteenth out of twenty-six finalists. But she did not give in to oblivion. After “Rocks and honey”, released that year, Bonnie Tyler sent two more studio albums to stores, 2019's “Between the earth and the stars” and 2021's “The best is yet to come”.

Not just Bonnie Tyler and her “Total eclipse of the heart”. In the USA, according to data from Spotify, in the days preceding the solar eclipse the songs containing the word “eclipse” or “sun” in the title had an overall 200% increase in streams compared to normal days on the platform. Among others, they benefited from it “Ain't no sunshine” Of Bill Withers (622 thousand streams on April 8th alone), “Here comes the sun” of the Beatles (400 thousand streams on the day in question) and “Black hole sun” of the Soundgarden (537 thousand streams).