That’s still a modest audience, ranking it only 44 th on Radio Songs.
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Last week, with the Mannequin meme at full froth, “Black Beatles” finally garnered enough spins to make a dent on Radio Songs Billboard reports its airplay was up 57 percent for the week and nearly quadrupled from two weeks ago, reaching 25 million. radio standards-so small that at first “Beatles” didn’t appear on Billboard’s Radio Songs chart, the airplay component of the Hot 100. Prior to the meme, the song had a radio audience of about 6.5 million. 12, 2016, actually reflects data collected the last week of October.) Moreover, “Black Beatles” has been receiving appreciable radio airplay. (There is a data lag of about two weeks on Billboard’s charts a Hot 100 dated Nov.
Prior to that, “Black Beatles” was already a Top 20 hit-it had reached No. Remember, Mannequin videos featuring “Black Beatles” only materialized the first week of November data from the meme began affecting the Hot 100 just a fortnight ago. 1 for a single week in December 2013 due to heavy play of a Chatroulette parody of her video. (The closest any song came to hitting the top thanks to fan video activity was when Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” went back to No. But in these and other cases, the YouTube activity was driven largely by the songs’ official, label-sanctioned videos. 1 by heavy video activity: Miley Cyrus’ “ Wrecking Ball” hurtled to the top thanks to its racy video, and Taylor Swift’s hits “ Blank Space” and “ Bad Blood” each leapt to the top from outside the Top 10 after Swift deployed cinematic, glossy clips for both songs. In the three years and nine months since the Hot 100 rule change, we’ve seen several hits powered to No. 1 in early 2013, the week Billboard began counting YouTube views for the chart, thanks almost entirely to viral videos- 103 million views of them in a week, to be exact. “Harlem Shake,” for better or worse, was a milestone chart-topper in Hot 100 history. (My favorite part of many Mannequin Challenge videos is when the camera catches someone blinking or twitching-or a nonparticipant walking in the background-affirming that this is actually a video of people painstakingly holding still.) For those who haven’t yet had the pleasure, the meme involves teams of friends- dozens, sometimes hundreds or even thousands-striking curious poses while one cameraperson captures the eerie tableau, bobbing and weaving around a room filled with living statues. Since it emerged less than a month ago, the #MannequinChallenge hashtag has appeared millions of times on Twitter. And when it made that debut, no one had dreamed up the Mannequin Challenge, the viral video meme that is largely responsible for vaulting “Black Beatles” to No. 1 back in late August, “Black Beatles” wasn’t even on the Hot 100-it debuted about a month later, all the way down at No. Infectious as it is, the song’s nationwide explosion was wholly unpredictable, to say nothing of it toppling the Chainsmokers. But this sass is what’s so winning about the song: To the duo, being a “black Beatle” means having arrived at the toppermost of the poppermost, the highest echelon of musical iconography: “Black Beatles in the city/ Be back immediately/ To confiscate the moneys … I’m a, I’m a black Beatle/ Cream seats in the Regal.” It’s a fine addition to the yearslong lineage of hip-hop striver’s anthems-a wittier version, a decade later, of “ Party Like a Rockstar” by fellow Atlantans the Shop Boyz. 2 peak of his 2013 Miley Cyrus production “ We Can’t Stop.”) When the brothers recorded “Black Beatles” earlier this year, it was a bit cheeky to be comparing themselves to the Fab Four-the spooky, synthy trap track sounds nothing like the Beatles, and its lyrics only briefly invoke John Lennon’s glasses and Paul McCartney’s family tree. 1 for Mike WiLL Made-It, who has been a top producer for nearly half a decade. (It’s also, remarkably, the first pop No. But no hit in Rae Sremmurd’s two-album catalog has come close to the cross-cultural dominance of “Black Beatles,” their first Top 10 pop hit.
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