Sophie Ellis-Bextor has made her debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 with Murder On The Dancefloor – 22 years after its release. 

Lifted from her debut solo album, ‘Read My Lips’ (2002), the single was originally issued in the US in September 2002, where it became a minor hit on the Dance charts. 

Thanks to its inclusion in the new movie ‘Saltburn’, however, it’s re-entering the charts worldwide, returning to the UK Top 10 and now entering the Hot 100. 

This week it places at No. 98, becoming the first entry on the main Billboard singles chart of Sophie’s career.

The pop anthem features in the final scene of the movie, in which actor Barry Keoghan is seen dancing in the nude to the song. 

And Sophie’s already working on new music, according to her husband Richard Jones, who responded to a fan’s calls on X to “come back with disco dance”.

He teased: “Don’t you worry. Sophie’s been talking about this way before what’s happening with Murder.. weeks before Saltburn we’ve already had CD [Cathy Dennis] and RX [Richard X] in our house.

“Bangers are incoming!”

Dennis co-wrote Sophie’s 2007 single Catch You, while Richard collaborated with her on the 2011 single Starlight.