“She's a Star” by James

James opened the Whiplash campaign with "She's a Star", issued by Fontana on February 10, 1997, as the first taste of their seventh studio album, and the British band's big, open-hearted single sent them back into the UK top 10 for the first time since 1991. It stopped at number nine, their third top-10 hit at home, and enjoyed a short run in Australia and Canada as well.

As of 2026, it is still their last trip into the UK top 10, and in December 2020 the BPI certified it silver, with more than 200,000 units in sales and streams. The video features British actress Keeley Hawes.

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