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Red Hot Chili PeppersCalifornication

Trending since · peaked at 104 charts

Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
And little girls from Sweden dream of silver-screen quotation
And if you want these kind of dreams
It's Californication

The title track from the Chili Peppers' seventh album is broadly charting today, tracked across 104 country and platform charts after a brief absence. Released on Warner Bros. in June 1999 and produced by Rick Rubin, the song marked the band's turn toward what one Billboard critic called their "softer, melodic side" — John Frusciante's clean guitar figure and Anthony Kiedis's meditation on the dark side of Hollywood underneath its glossy surface, per Genius. It has since accumulated some 1.7 billion streams, according to Powers of 10, one of the deepest catalog cuts in the band's four-decade run. The song lent its name to Showtime's David Duchovny series and turned up in an Enron documentary, per Screen Rant. A steady presence that rarely stays away for long.

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