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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Olympic Gold Medalist Figure Skater Alysa Liu Is Impacting the Music Charts · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Figure skater Alyssa lu has the late disco queen Donna
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  Speaker 2: Summer to thank, in part for her gold medal and
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  Speaker 2: women's individual figure skating at the recent Winter Olympics after
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  Speaker 2: skating to Donna's MacArthur Park secured her that win. But
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  Speaker 2: Donna might want to thank Alyssa for return in the favor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to all the understandable hype surrounding Alyssa's still viral routine,
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  Speaker 4: Donna Summer has just secured her fourth posthumous number one.
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  Speaker 3: MacArthur Park just rocketed to number one on Billboards Dance
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  Speaker 3: Digital Sales chart. And that's not the only song benefiting
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  Speaker 3: from the Alyssa effect.
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  Speaker 2: Stateside is the Name by Pink Panthers and Zara Larson,
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  Speaker 2: which she chose for her closing Galla performance that jumped
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  Speaker 2: eighty eight percent in streams.
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  Speaker 4: And Lave's Promise, which she used for her short program,
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  Speaker 4: racked up one point three million streams in the four
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  Speaker 4: days following the event.
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  Speaker 2: And these are somewhat unconventional songs for figure skating, but
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  Speaker 2: one of the conditions Alyssa insisted upon with her coach
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  Speaker 2: when she agreed to return to competing. Was that she
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  Speaker 2: get to choose her songs hundred percent of the time
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  Speaker 2: and the results, well, she's amazing and they speak to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.