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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStreams of N.W.A's 'F-k tha Police' Nearly Quadruple Amid Nationwide Protests
N.W.As classic 1988 anti-police-brutality anthem Fuck tha Police is just one of several protest songs like Childish Gambinos This Is America, YGs FDT and Kendrick Lamars Alright that have seen a resurgence in streams over the last week-plus as anti-police brutality protests continue to surge throughout the nation more than a week after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
As a mainstay at protests nationwide, Fuck tha Police saw a 272% percent increase in on-demand audio streams from May 27th through June 1st compared to the five days before Floyds death, according to Alpha Data, the data analytics provider that power the Rolling Stone charts. The song picked up particularly on Sunday and Monday, with 765,000 on-demand audio streams over those two days, which is nearly five times the streams the song was seeing on a Sunday and Monday before the protests. The song previously saw a surge in listening in August 2015 amid protests in Ferguson a year after the shooting of Michael Brown, but even then, its daily streams on Sunday and Monday were double the size they were in 2015.
This Is America, meanwhile, has been a viral soundtrack on TikTok for the past month, when teens began incorporating the song in TikToks about racial inequality when charges were filed in the case of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Gambinos 2018 song witnessed a 149% jump in streams over the same time period as Fuck tha Police. Also surging were Kendrick Lamars Alright (+71%), Public Enemys Fight the Power (+89%), DAngelo and the Vanguards The Charade (+122%), Killer Mikes Dont Die (+542%) and Beyoncés Freedom (+70%).
Decades-old songs have also received large spikes in streams, including James Browns Say It Loud Im Black and Im Proud, which has spiked 455%, and Nina Simones I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, which saw a 34% jump in streams.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/fuck-tha-police-streams-protest-songs-george-floyd-1009277/
RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts).... coming straight from the underground
FirstLight
(13,362 posts)Hadn't listened to the whole song in years, it was good to crank it UP