For several years now, Zendaya’s focus career-wise has been on acting. She landed a headlining role in the Spider-Man franchise, she starred in and self-produced Netflix’s
The second season of Euphoria has taken the series to new heights, including musically. While composer and producer Labrinth was on deck for the first showing, now that the program is more popular than ever, the tunes featured are also gaining momentum, and Zendaya is there to lend her talent and fame to push them to the masses.
Just two songs from the second season’s soundtrack feature Zendaya, and both have reached a number of Billboard charts, though which ones they’ve hit don’t overlap much. One is being serviced to pop radio, while the other instantly performed well on rock-focused tallies. With a pair of original cuts, the singer and actress has reached rankings she’d never appeared on before, and she’s apparently scored some real wins.
Here’s a quick look at the songs from season two of Euphoria that Zendaya performs on, as well as which charts they’ve reached.
"I'm Tired" with Labrinth
The current focus, and apparently the bigger hit of the two, “I’m Tired” has turned out to not just be a quick success, but a slow burn. Released in late February, the track just reached the Adult Pop Airplay ranking this week, starting off at No. 40. The song, which is billed as a duet with Labrinth, also rose to No. 34 on the Pop Airplay list, so clearly the team at HBO and Columbia (the label working with the show) have selected the cut as the poppier effort from the soundtrack.
Zendaya had never previously landed on the Adult Pop Airplay chart, as much of her output didn’t fit in with what those stations typically play. The track also brought her to the Billboard Global 200 (a look at the 200 most-played tunes in the world) for the first time, and it was quickly followed by her next Euphoria cut…though “I’m Tired” ended up rising into the top 40, an impressive performance.
- Adult Pop Airplay - No. 40
- Billboard Global 200 - No. 29
- Digital Song Sales - No. 34
- Hot 100 - No. 53
- Pop Airplay - No. 34
- Streaming Songs - No. 23
"Elliot's Song" with Dominic Fike
The other new song featured on Euphoria’s season two soundtrack is another duet, but with a different musician. This time, actor and singer Dominic Fike joins Zendaya on “Elliot’s Song,” which hasn’t lived on as long as its predecessor, but it did help the star of the program reach several charts she’d never approached before.
Billboard labeled the tune as rock, so it appeared on a number of rock and alternative charts. Previously, all of Zendaya’s music had been categorized as pop, dance, or R&B, so she was new to at least four rankings that “Elliot’s Song” appeared on. Impressively, it became an instant top 10 hit on almost all of them, as the two talents attached both have sizable fan bases that rushed to listen the moment the cut became available.
- Alternative Digital Song Sales - No. 7
- Alternative Streaming Songs - No. 13
- Billboard Global 200 - No. 147
- Hot Alternative Songs - No. 9
- Hot Rock & Alternative Songs - No. 10
