This week Australia's own Gotye climbs to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with his smash hit "Somebody That I Used To Know," feat New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra.
Gotye breaks the twelve-year drought for an Australian act to appear at the summit in the US, with duo Savage Garden the last act to reach number one with their 2000 hit "I Knew I Loved You."
Taken from Billboard's press release:
"With the "Glee" cast having performed its version of the song on the Fox series' April 10 episode and Gotye and Kimbra having sung "Somebody" on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" on April 14, the track sold 542,000 downloads in the April 9-15 tracking period, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The sum is the fourth-best since SoundScan began tracking digital sales in 2003.
While aided by TV exposure, Gotye's "Somebody" nets the highest weekly digital sales total for a song not powered by debut week sales ("Right Round") or Christmas week consumer behavior ("TiK ToK," "Grenade"). (The "Glee" cast cover of "Somebody," meanwhile, sold 152,000 downloads and debuts on the Digital Songs chart at No. 10 and the Hot 100 at No. 26.)
In addition to its chart-topping rank on the Hot 100 (with the chart's top Digital Gainer award) and Digital Songs, "Somebody" leaps 12-8 on Radio Songs with 72 million all-format audience impressions (up 19%), according to Nielsen BDS. The track additionally takes over atop the On-Demand Songs chart with 1.28 million on-demand streams (up 23%), according to BDS, while its overall streaming increases by 21%.
Well done Gotye!
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