4 Non Blondes have joined Spotify’s famed Billions Club, with their monumental 1992 track “What’s Up?” officially earning one billion streams on the platform.
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The song reached No.14 on the Billboard Hot 100 but was a significantly bigger hit overseas, going to No.1 in numerous European countries and No.2 in the UK, where it was held off the top spot only by Take That’s “Pray.”
“What’s Up?” was featured on the band’s debut and only studio album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
Last year, Dolly Parton recruited the band’s Linda Perry for a new version of 4 Non Blondes’ rock-pop anthem, which was featured on her Rockstar album. She posted: “My new song “What’s Up?” featuring the very talented @RealLindaPerry is out now!”
Also in 2023, Perry was the subject of a documentary. Mercury Studios and Utopia Originals’ Linda Perry: Let It Die Here was directed by the award-winning filmmaker Don Hardy, who directed the 2021 documentary Citizen Penn, and is out now.
The film about the ex-frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes, who founded the labels Rockstar and Custard, is described as “an intimate look at the multi-faceted singer, songwriter and producer.” After her tenure with the group from 1989 to 1995, which included their signature hit “What’s Up?,” Perry went on to write such hits as “Beautiful” for Christina Aguilera, Pink’s “Get the Party Started,” and to co-write Gwen Stefani’s “What You Waiting For?”
Perry, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015. Publicity for the documentary noted: “Linda Perry is one of the most outspoken and recognizable artists of the past 30 years. The hat, tattoos, attitude, and her massive hit single ‘What’s Up’ with her band 4 Non Blondes made her an icon.
“But, in the decades since that song topped the charts, Perry has reinvented herself as a Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer, penning and producing hit-after-hit for artists like Adele, Christina Aguilera, Brandi Carlisle, Miley Cyrus, Celine Dion, Ariana Grande, Alicia Keys, Dolly Parton, Pink, Gwen Stefani and Weezer.”
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