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Originally posted by umich
Technically, any of her recurrent singles can re-enter the Hot 100 as long as the song has enough points to rank in the top 50. Billboard made this stipulation nearly 3 years ago following Whitney's death (which is why her songs came back to the upper half of the Hot 100).
If any of her sub-20-week songs gain enough chart points (like Inner Insanity pointed out -- Birthday and This Is How We Do), then they can re-appear anywhere on the Hot 100.
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True, but "Gangham Style" has never re-entered the Hot 100, even though the song has obviously had weeks since video streaming was introduced it could have placed within the Top 30. For that reason, I'm not sure "Dark Horse" would meet the criteria used for allowing Mariah Carey to reenter every Christmas, or for allowing Whitney Houston to re-enter after her death.
I realize now had On-Demand and Video Streaming counted toward the Hot 100 at the time of Houston's death, "I Will Always Love You" would have reached Number One for one or two more weeks again instead of number three, matching Chubby Checkers record with "The Twist." Think about the millions of people who streamed that video in the days following her death. I feel certain she probably had close to 50 million streams in the US alone..