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Last week, as the coronavirus outbreak tip-off into a pandemic, R.E.M.’s 1987 classic” It’s the Intent of the World as We Know It( And I Feel Fine )” unexpectedly re-entered the singles charts. Now, with everyone settling into the realities of self-quarantine,” End of the World” has continued to see a upsurge of singles purchases, alongside other sungs with vague corona connotations.
According to Billboard,” It’s the End of the World” was the 22 nd most acquired song in all-genres last week. That, working in partnership with 1.7 million streams, was enough to push it to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart. But while R.E.M. have realise the biggest gains in the American charts, they aren’t the only bands receiving a pandemic bump.
Disturbed’s” Down With the Sickness” and Gloria Gaynor’s” I Will Survive” are both popular at the moment, as is The Knack’s “My Sharona”, only because it rhymes with “corona.” Weird Al” Yankovic’s” My Bologna”, a charade of “My Sharona”, is also is working well for the same reason.
Telecommuters the world round are popping racetracks called ” Work From Home”, most especially the versions by Tim Heidecker( up 66% in U.S. brooks to 7,000) and Fifth Harmony feature Ty Dolla$ ign( up 11% to 1.2 million ). Finally, journeying the COVID-1 9 ripple are sungs with specially thematic titles, like Shwayze’s” Corona and Lime”, The Minutemen’s “Corona”, ” Isolation” by Joy Division, and “Quarantined” by At the Drive-In. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from this week in the American charts, it’s that Americans love to be on theme.
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