Boy Meets Girl

Data updated on 2025-06-11 21:50:32 UTC

Following their meeting at a wedding at which the two were hired to perform, Seattle natives George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam formed the pop group Boy Meets Girl. Their eponymous 1985 debut featured the single "Oh Girl," but it was the duo's penning of two hits for Whitney Houston that established them as songwriters. "How Will I Know" topped the pop and R&B charts, while "I Wanna Dance With Somebody [Who Loves Me]" won the Grammy for Song of the Year. Returning to Boy Meets Girl, Merrill and Rubicam issued Reel Life in 1988. "Waiting for a Star to Fall" reached the top 5 in the US and went #1 in Europe; "Bring Down the Moon," its follow-up single, also charted. Boy Meets Girl also recorded the 1991 album New Dream, but it was shelved before release. Merrill and Rubicam worked mostly as songwriters throughout the 1990s, scoring hits for the UK dance-pop groups OTT and Girlthing. Then in 2003 they revived Boy Meets Girl with the self-released Wonderground. A quiet, charming album, it dealt with their past as soft rock hitmakers, the dissolution of their marriage, and the state of life in the present. In 2005 the duo released fully remastered versions of Boy Meets Girl's recordings, including the never-released '91 album New Dream. ~ Tom Demalon

Genres

: new wave pop

Total plays

112.0 million

Updated on 2025-06-11

Date	Total plays
2025-06-11	111,979,968
2025-06-03	111,628,130
2025-05-26	111,266,558
2025-05-18	110,879,809
2025-05-02	110,073,213
2025-04-23	109,636,395
2025-04-13	109,145,979
2025-04-06	108,806,265
2025-03-28	214,230,506
2025-03-20	107,996,290
2025-03-11	107,572,717
2025-03-02	107,166,424
2025-02-22	106,798,228
2025-02-12	106,329,582
2025-02-03	105,914,773
2025-01-24	105,429,571
2025-01-16	105,057,764
2025-01-07	104,662,779
2024-12-30	104,337,291
2024-12-21	104,002,916
2024-12-12	103,636,931
2024-11-21	102,766,046
2024-06-10	95,592,559
2024-05-28	95,001,228
2024-05-12	94,266,339
2024-04-26	93,513,887
2024-04-11	92,804,585
2024-03-28	92,167,945
2024-03-12	91,422,675
2024-02-26	90,731,541
2024-02-11	90,028,539
2023-11-25	86,609,549
2023-10-16	84,903,269
2023-09-30	84,206,947
2023-09-15	83,545,920
2023-08-29	82,821,792
2023-08-25	82,648,189
2023-08-20	82,438,121

Social media links

Monthly listeners

664,416

Followers

43,622

Top Cities

London

16,765 listeners
Sydney

15,001 listeners
Santiago

13,272 listeners
Melbourne

13,597 listeners
Dublin

14,236 listeners

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Most popular tracks

Track	Plays	Duration	Release date
Waiting for a Star to Fall	109,422,533	4:31	1988-06-01
Stars Are Falling	366,333	3:05	2022-07-08
Bring Down the Moon	334,196	5:01	1988-06-01
Stormy Love	267,543	4:34	1988-06-01
If You Run	220,030	4:32	1988-06-01
Oh Girl	143,764	4:17	1985-01-01
Is Anybody Out There In Love	136,289	4:54	1988-06-01
No Apologies	113,728	4:23	1988-06-01
Stay Forever	98,802	4:08	1988-06-01
Gone	95,120	2:43	2021-03-05
One Sweet Dream	69,260	5:45	1988-06-01
Restless Dreamer	67,596	4:54	1988-06-01
Bring Down the Moon - Single Version	52,183	4:18	1988-06-01
Someone's Got to Send Out Love	41,826	1:59	1988-06-01
One Day	39,794	3:53	1988-06-01
We The People	33,947	5:24	2024-10-31
More Deeply (In Love With You)	32,301	4:08	2021-01-08
My Desire	26,971	4:22	2021-02-24
How Will I Know - Martini Mix	24,160	4:11	2022-12-02
Bird In Hand	20,288	5:11	1990-06-01
Everything New - JBroadway Remix	19,590	2:56	2021-03-19
New Dream (Move Me In the Way of Love)	19,441	5:11	1990-06-01
The Wonderground	18,655	3:44	2024-11-08
Falling Hard	17,998	3:52	2021-02-05
The Touch	16,029	3:55	1985-01-01
In Your Eyes	14,190	4:09	1985-01-01
Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing	14,127	4:01	1985-01-01
From Now On	13,123	4:49	1985-01-01
This Chronic Pain	12,449	4:47	2021-02-24
Aah Song	12,240	4:34	2021-02-24
Kissing Falling Flying	12,119	3:35	1985-01-01
I Wish You Were Here	11,980	3:37	1985-01-01
Climbing	11,268	4:36	2021-02-24
Be My Baby	10,986	3:46	1985-01-01
Boy On My Mind	10,934	4:08	1990-06-01
Pieces	10,614	4:08	1985-01-01
Free	10,577	4:46	1990-06-01
Flying the Cosmos	10,085	5:08	1990-06-01
If Things Were Different	9,814	4:46	1990-06-01
Indigo Drums	9,369	5:18	1990-06-01
I Love This World	9,060	3:46	1990-06-01
Premonitions	8,992	4:48	1985-01-01
Be True / Soul Connection	7,914	4:45	1990-06-01
Everything New	7,436	4:47	2021-03-05
Sacred Heart	7,294	3:24	2021-02-24
Constellation Stars	6,772	4:25	2021-03-05
The Wonderground	6,730	5:04	2021-02-24
Make It Up	6,538	4:39	2021-02-24
Mission	6,368	3:49	1990-06-01
Gone - Perlo Remix	6,051	2:47	2021-03-26
Everybody's Somebody's Baby	5,552	4:34	1990-06-01
Drug of Choice	4,807	6:14	2021-02-24
Second Chance	4,609	5:25	2021-02-24
Birds of a Feather	4,501	4:54	2021-02-24
Don't Remind Me	3,355	4:12	2021-02-24
Falling Hard - Loko Velocet Remix	3,143	4:07	2024-10-25
Falling Hard - Acapella	2,993	3:55	2021-02-05
Everything New - Acapella	1,928	4:50	2021-03-19
Falling Hard (w/o vocals)	1,426	3:52	2022-12-02
Constellation Stars (w/o vocals)	1,241	4:25	2022-12-02
Falling Hard - Instrumental	1,006	3:55	2021-02-05
How Deep Is Your Love(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	3:07	2022-09-29
ASAYAKE(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	3:47	2022-09-29
TAKARAJIMA(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	3:00	2022-09-29
Over the rainbow(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	3:22	2022-09-29
Harmony(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	4:01	2022-09-29
The Rose(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	2:22	2022-09-29
I'll give you romance(2022 Remaster)	< 1000	4:36	2022-09-29