International Space Station commander Chris Hadfield was already becoming an Internet sensation with his 770,000 Twitter followers and videos of him strumming a guitar and cooking spinach in space. But now the Canadian astronaut has topped those short performances with a competently-sung rendition of David Bowie's song "Space Oddity." The performance of the classically spacey song while actually floating in space "wins the Internet" as some commenters have suggested. Hadfield plays his acoustic guitar alongside shots of the station zooming over earth in the video which the staff of the Canadian Space Agency helped mix.
It has gone viral. Likely rack up enough Streaming Points to debut in the Top 100 of Hot 100. Need about 1.3 million USA streams to get on the Hot 100 like "Levitate" did.
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Hadouken!: "Levitate" debuts on Streaming Songs at No. 36 with 1.2 million U.S. streams (up 92%), a decisive factor in the song's No. 99 debut on the Hot 100. 92% of its Hot 100 activity, in fact, is being driven by streams. The song's popularity on YouTube is fueled by a video created by using clips of people performing extreme athletic feats, entitled "People Are Awesome 2013," which features "Levitate" as background audio. The video has drawn 30 million global YouTube views.
Lot of tweets. Lot of news coverage. Lot of comments. It will be fun to track its progress.
