What does this song have in common with this song?
And....this song...
They all debuted at NUMBER ONE on the Billboard Hot 100.
Why is "Harlem Shake" there? Because for the first time in the history of the rock era, Billboard includes YouTube streams in the formula for calculating America's top songs.
From Billboard:
Billboard and Nielsen have revealed that U.S. YouTube video streaming data has been added to multiple platforms, which includes an update to the formula for the five-decade-old Hot 100. YouTube streaming data is now factored into the chart, enhancing a recipe that includes digital download track sales (and physical singles sales), as tracked by Nielsen SoundScan, as well as terrestrial radio airplay, on-demand audio streaming, and online radio streaming, as tracked by Nielsen BDS.
"Shake" becomes just the 21st song (of 1,023 No. 1s dating to the chart's 1958 launch) to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Even more notably, it's the first song to start at the summit by an artist essentially unknown prior to charting. Of the prior 20 No. 1 debuts, three were by artists making their first Hot 100 appearances, but all – Clay Aiken, Fantasia and Carrie Underwood – had built familiarity via months of weekly TV exposure on Fox's "American Idol" (2002-05). Lauryn Hill also sent her solo debut "Doo Wop (That Thing)" to a No. 1 beginning in 1998, but she was, by then, known for fronting R&B act the Fugees.
Here's a list of the other twenty songs that debuted at number one on the chart, from Sinuousmag.com:
- Michael Jackson – You Are Not Alone (Debut Date: September 2, 1995)
- Mariah Carey – Fantasy (Debut Date: September 30, 1995)
- Whitney Houston – Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (Debut Date: November 25, 1995)
- Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men – One Sweet Day (Debut Date: December 2, 1995)
- Puff Daddy & Faith Evans feat. 112 - I’ll Be Missing You (Debut Date: June 14, 1997)
- Mariah Carey – Honey (Debut Date: September 13, 1997)
- Elton John – Candle in the Wind 1997/ The Way You Look Tonight (Debut Date: October 11, 1997)
- Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (Debut Date: February 28, 1998)
- Aerosmith – I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing (Debut Date: September 5, 1998)
- Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing) (Debut Date: November 14, 1998)
- Clay Aiken – This Is the Night (Debut Date: June 28, 2003)
- Fantasia - I Believe (Debut Date: July 10, 2004)
- Carrie Underwood – Inside Your Heaven (Debut Date: July 2, 2005)
- Taylor Hicks – Do I Make You Proud (Debut Date: July 1, 2006)
- Britney Spears - 3 (Debut Date: October 24, 2009)
- Eminem – Not Afraid (Debut Date: May 22, 2010)
- Ke$ha – We R Who We R (Debut Date: November 13, 2010)
- Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me (Debut Date: January 29, 2011)
- Lady Gaga – Born This Way (February 26, 2011)
- Katy Perry – Part of Me (Debut Date: March 3, 2012)
