When I read the article I had in the back of my mind that this had been done before but I could not remember who. Thanks for the reminder. Her song was introduced to people because of the movie Reality Bites. This song going number one I will take as a positive thing because it shows the still growing influence of the internet.
Oh, agreed entirely that it's apples and oranges. Reality Bites was a Universal movie, the soundtrack was on RCA, and they put five tracks on MTV. It was very much top-down.
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