“I Like the Way You Kiss Me” by Artemas

"I Like the Way You Kiss Me" is the song that sent English singer-songwriter Artemas to the top of charts across Europe. Fresh off his debut mixtape, Pretty, in February 2024, and two shows at the Lower Third in London, he went back into the studio and came out with this. He teased it on social media on 15 March and put it out himself, with no label behind him, four days later, as the first single from his second mixtape, Yustyna.

It's darkwave-tinged alternative pop, moody '80s synths pulsing away for two minutes and 23 seconds at a brisk 152 beats per minute. It went to number three in the UK, topped the charts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Flanders, and made the top 20 in the United States.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.