Protest songs by KendrickLamar, JamesBrown and more experience enormous streaming increases
This Tuesday in particular saw a number of timely songs spiking in streaming consumption, in large part due to the debut of Spotify's, introduced in the midst of the #TheShowMustBePaused and #BlackOutTuesday movements. James Brown's 1968 hit"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud," whose Pt.
The two most currently popular songs on the playlist both broke a million streams for June 2: Kendrick Lamar's 2015single "Alright" and Childish Gambino's 2018 Billboard Hot 100-topper"This Is America.""Alright," which has since come to be viewed as a modern civil rights anthem, racked up 1.162 million streams on Tuesday, up from just 131,000 a week before .
Several newer songs addressing police shootings also experienced huge Tuesday bumps. Those included The Game's Michael Brown tribute"Don't Shoot" , Vic Mensa's"16 Shots" and Killer Mike's"Don't Die" -- all of which saw percentage increases in the tens of thousands from a week earlier.
Older songs also saw similar increases on Tuesday, including a pair of still-urgent '70s soul classics in Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes'"Wake Up Everybody" and the Five Stairsteps'"O-o-h Child" . Meanwhile, a pair of confrontational golden age rap protest perennials -- Public Enemy's"Fight the Power" and N.W.
Here is an alphabetical list of 15 of the protest songs that drew the biggest increases in streaming between last Tuesday and this Tuesday :36,000 to 264,000 73,000 to 265,000 James Brown,"Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud"2,000 to 547,000 Sam Cooke,"A Change Is Gonna Come"The Game feat.
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