Build Me Up Buttercup
The Foundations
- Key
- C major
- Camelot
- 8B
- BPM
- 133.5
Key confidence medium · relative A minor (8A) · BPM confidence medium · half-time 66.8 · measured from the full recording · 2026-09-12
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As of 2026-08-29, "Build Me Up Buttercup" by The Foundations has charted in 3 markets across 2 platforms, peaking at #7 (LB) on the Rotation chart. Measured from the full recording, it reads C major (8B) at 133.5 BPM.
- Markets
- 3
- First seen
- 2026-07-20
- Latest chart date
- 2026-08-29
- Peak
- #7 lb
Started in 1 market, now in 3.
Momentum
This song has not appeared on a Rotation chart, so it has no score and no receipts. The rank history below is the ledger; a score is only published once the momentum run puts it on a chart.
Why it's here
It was quickly certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over a million US copies. [1] The song is featured in the 1998 film There's Something About Mary, the pilot of Alias, an episode of Elementary, the 2020 film The Kissing Booth 2, and a series of 2020–21 Geico commercials. [2] It is played at every Wisconsin Badgers home football game and was long used during the seventh-inning stretch at Los Angeles Angels home games. [3]
In culture
Every place this record has lived. A solid chip states a fact and carries the citation that earns it; a dashed one is a connection somebody drew, and carries their name instead.
- Covered Bobby Vintonsource
- Covered Busted collaboration with McFlysource
- Covered Cornell University Last Callsource
- Covered Eddie Moneysource
- Covered Frank Turnersource
- Covered Mean Mr Mustardsource
- Written by Mike d’Abosource
- Covered Mobilessource
- Covered New Foundationssource
- Covered The Beatlessource
- Covered The Countdown Singerssource
- Covered The Goopssource
- Covered The Hit Crewsource
- Written by Tony Macaulaysource
Across markets · earliest pickup first
Every date here is the date the source chart covers, never the date we fetched it. Sources publish on different lags: the Spotify mirror runs about two days behind, TurnTable publishes weekly.
- MarketFirst seenPeak
- United Statesus · shazam · 1 city#49#49—
- Saudi Arabiasa · deezer#80#80—
- Lebanonlb · deezer#76#7#76
City pickups
City charts record their parent country as the market, so these do not add to the market count above. One line per country: how many of its rooms picked the song up, and the best of them.
- us 1 city · best #49 columbia
Listen
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Editions
No published edition carries this song yet. Every edition it appears in will be listed here and stay listed: an edition is immutable, so a citation to one never rots.
Identity
- ISRC
- GBAJE6800059
- Slug
- the-foundations__build-me-up-buttercup
- Sources
- deezer, shazam
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Every source whose chart has ever carried this song.
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