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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: If you ever need a proof that Coachella is more
- 0:05Speaker 2: of a world festival than just one relevant to Southern
- 0:07Speaker 2: California where it's based, look at the impact it made
- 0:09Speaker 2: on the global music charts.
- 0:10Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable. Actually, Justin Bieber Is twenty twelve
- 0:13Speaker 3: beating the Beat featuring Nicki Minaj, which Justin wove into
- 0:17Speaker 3: his two Coachella performances, is number one on Billboard's Global
- 0:21Speaker 3: excluding US chart, meaning like every chart except for the US.
- 0:25Speaker 1: And this shows just how big and relevant Coachella's live
- 0:27Speaker 1: feeds were because people were watching all over the world.
- 0:31Speaker 2: For a song that's fourteen years old to take the
- 0:32Speaker 2: number one spot on this chart is not at all
- 0:35Speaker 2: normal outside of Christmas music. It's only happened I think once.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Before, right with Kate Bush's nineteen eighty five single Running
- 0:41Speaker 3: Up That Hill. Doing It back in twenty twenty two
- 0:44Speaker 3: after being featured on Stranger Things Remember all Right? Show.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Festival organizers have been criticized for broadcasting Coachella for free
- 0:50Speaker 2: on YouTube, like why give it away? Well, this is
- 0:53Speaker 2: why people on every continent see these moments and their
- 0:57Speaker 2: fomo makes them want to go, so it fuels the
- 0:59Speaker 2: sales that's direct from Hollywood.