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April 5, 2018

The Meme That Sent Fleetwood Mac Back Into The Charts By Mistake [Video]

What happens when some old school music meets internet pop culture? This is how a single from the past rocketed its way back up the charts.

It’s not every day that something absolutely epic happens by complete mistake, or is it?

Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ has found its way back into the US charts at the hands of a genius – a specialist in the meme industry, one might say. The 1977 single now sits at number 16 on Billboard’s Hot Rocket Sings chart.

How’d it happen? See for yourself:

The Guardian reports:

It was retweeted more than 130,000 times, prompting 2,000 downloads of Dreams and 1.9m streams, a 24% rise. Rumours, which topped Billboard’s Top Rock Albums for a record 31 consecutive weeks on its release, jumped to No 13 in that chart.

This is not the first time that the beauty of meme culture rocketed a track to the top. In 2012, US producer Baauer reached number one in ‘Merica with a “web video dance craze” called the Harlem Shake. Go ahead, we won’t judge.

Maybe, somewhere in the world, somebody is unintentionally inventing space travel? You never know.

[source: guardian]