Remember when Billboard changed their policy to include YouTube streams as a factor in how they rank certain songs on the Hot 100? It helped artists like Baauer and a number of artists chart. And now, in the most random way, Kanye West debuts in the Top 20!
This is all thanks to Marina Shifrin, who made a video for her boss, announcing her resignation from her job as a news video editor and had Kanye West‘s Late Registration song “Gone” as the soundtrack to the viral clip. Marina can be seen dancing all over the office at the wee hours of the morning in sheer joy because she quit.
When the video caught fire online, it racked up 6.2 million streams, sending the track soaring up the charts to number eighteen on the Hot 100, number six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and four on the rap Rap Songs chart. The power of the Internet!
So help Yeezy chart higher next week and watch the video by Marina below. Plus, it features Cam’ron, so who wouldn’t want to see that hit #1 eight years later?
KILLA!
“Per Billboard policy, songs showing renewed activity past their initial release cycles are eligible to chart if ranking in the top half of the Hot 100 and genre hybrid rankings.“
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