“I Knew It, I Knew You,” Taylor Swift‘s newly-released original song penned for the Toy Story 5 movie soundtrack, tops this week’s new music poll.
Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (June 6) on Billboard, choosing the singer-songwriter’s latest track as their favorite release this week.
“I Knew It, I Knew You” rose to the top in a week that also saw new music releases from Tinashe, Vybz Kartel, Niall Horan, Role Model, Lizzo and more. By closing time on Sunday, poll results showed Swift held onto the lead, with 35% of the vote.
Following a trail of cloud-themed clues, Swift officially announced “I Knew It, I Knew You” just days before its Friday debut, sharing she’d “always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening.”
“I Knew It, I Knew You,” which has Swift reuniting in the studio with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff — she’d shifted to Max Martin and Shellback production on The Life of a Showgirl — musically harkens back to the star’s earlier pop-country era and has the song’s narrator leaving the porch light on for her muse: “I remembered I loved you/ Came back when it mattered, I saw you /Standing there in the light of the window wearing that same smile/ Man, it’s been a while/ But I knew it, I knew you,” she sings warmly.
Soon after its release, the song was accompanied by an animated video featuring clips of Jessie, Woody and Buzz from the Pixar and Disney Toy Story film franchise. Toy Story 5 opens in theaters on June 19.
Among the new releases trailing behind Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” this week are Tinashe’s “Too Easy,” with 28% of the vote; Vybz Kartel’s God & Time, with 18% of the vote, and Niall Horan’s Dinner Party, with 5% of the vote.
See the final results of this week’s poll below.
