Tom breihan the number ones5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He created a dance instruction video on a new site called YouTube for “Crank That,” which went viral. He’d mislabel his songs on Limewire, an illegal music-download site, so more folks would hear his music. He then linked and cross-promoted on multiple mediums.Īs Breihan wrote, “He might have been only a serviceable musician, but he was a genius-level early adopter.” He wrote his own Wikipedia entry. He created his songs using a demo version of a digital audio workstation FruityLoops ( now FL Studio) from his house and posted them on SoundClick, an early social-media platform. “Soulja Boy is the original self promoter,” Breihan said. He was the first artist to use the Internet to work outside the record label system and generate a No. ![]() 1 in 1990.Īnd Breihan explains why Soulja Boy (real name: DeAndre Way) made the cut for “Crank That” in 2007. And Vanilla Ice’s oft-reviled “Ice Ice Baby” was, for better or worse, the first rap song to hit No. George McRae’s “Rock Your Baby” tapped into early disco in 1974. There are chapters on the Beatles via “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in 1964, the mesmerizing power of Michael Jackson via “Billie Jean” in 1984 and teen pop idol Britney Spears with her breakout 1998 hit “.Baby One More Time.”īut Chubby Checker created a massive dance craze with “The Twist,” which hit the top of the charts in 1960, then again in 1962. Some of these “rupture” points are super obvious but necessary to cover. ![]()
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