"You listen to this once, you’re humming the theme.
"Part of that is creating an iconic theme. "Our goal is to create a new NFL tradition on Thursday nights," Amazon vice president for global video Marie Donoghue said. Play to win $25K: USA TODAY NFL Survivor Pool NFL NEWSLETTER: Sign up now for exclusive content sent to your inboxĮARLY LOOK: Each NFL team's most pressing quarterback question entering 2022 Social media has basically begged for ESPN to adopt the CBS theme for Southeastern Conference games when the network gains the rights in 2024.Īs Prime Video assumes exclusivity for "Thursday Night Football" this season, the streaming service released Thursday the theme song for the broadcast elements it hopes will become part of fans' lives for years.
The attitude in the "Monday Night Football" theme can remedy the sourest of moods to start the work week. The theme of "Wide World of Sports" invokes nostalgia for a certain generation. All these factors helped Scott draw a stunning 27.7 million unique players to his concert.Music plays an undeniable role in how a viewer consumes live sports from home. But when comparing these events, it’s also worth noting that “Astronomical” took place just a month into the coronavirus pandemic, when music fans across the globe had nowhere else to go but online – and at roughly the same time that Scott would have been headlining the cancelled Coachella 2020, inadvertently framing his Fortnite performance as a replacement. Not counting “The Scotts,” streams of Travis’ discography still rose by 38%. 1 on the Hot 100 chart the following week. Unlike “The Rift Tour,” “Astronomical” included the arrival of a brand-new track: “The Scotts,” Scott’s collaboration with Kid Cudi that was live-debuted during the concert and rocketed to No. So what could account for the gap in streaming impact? “The Rift Tour” was billed as Fortnite’s follow-up event to Travis Scott’s “Astronomical” in-game concert in April 2020, but Grande’s streaming gains from the concert pale in comparison to Scott’s – whose entire catalog surged 136% the day after his debut Fortnite concert. Travis Scott's Streams & Sales Leap Following 'Fortnite' Virtual Concert 8, when her catalog collected 7.18 million streams. 5, when her catalog accumulated 7.29 million streams, and Aug. The event doesn’t appear to have made much of a difference on streams of Grande’s total catalog, which actually dropped by 2% between Aug. Streams of the Labrinth, Sia and Diplo supergroup LSD’s track “Audio” jumped 222% from 21,000 to 68,000, and streams of “Come & Go” by Juice Wrld featuring Marshmello rose 35%, from 564,000 to 759,000. Australian rock band Wolfmother‘s “Victorious” saw the biggest percentage jump of all: Streams rose from close to 3,000 to close to 23,000, marking a 663% increase. Grande’s concert also included a handful of tracks by other artists, which enjoyed streaming gains as well. “Positions,” Grande’s most recent hit single, gained an extra 10,000 or so streams – from 611,000 to 621,000 – but given the song’s high starting stream count, the surge only accounted for a 2% increase. Streams of thank u, next standout “7 rings” rose 23% from 446,000 to 552,000.
Streams of “The Way,” Grande’s 2013 collaboration with Mac Miller, rose 44% from 146,000 to 211,000. The second-biggest gains went to Sweetener’s “R.E.M,” streams of which rose 94% from 43,000 on Aug. 6 83,000 on Aug 7 and 93,000 on Aug 8.Īriana Grande Is Taking Over 'Fortnite' This Weekend: Inside The Rift Tour As with most of the songs on her setlist, streams of “Be Alright” steadily rose throughout the weekend: “Be Alright” collected 53,000 streams on Aug. 8, from roughly 42,000 streams to 93,000, according to MRC Data. 5 (the night before the event kickoff) and Aug. Total on-demand audio and video streams of the song surged 123% between Aug. Epic Games, Fortnite’s developer, declined to state how many viewers tuned in over the weekend.Īmong the five of Grande’s songs on the setlist, Dangerous Woman track “Be Alright” was the breakout hit, leading the way in post-show streams. Titled “The Rift Tour,” the spectacle aired five times inside the free-to-play video game between Aug. Ariana Grande‘s rainbow-filled, pastel-hued concert in Fortnite last weekend may have lasted under 10 minutes, but its impact lingered long after the show, helping fuel a spike in streams for the songs included in her set.ĭuring the concert, an avatar version of the pop star performed hits like “7 rings” and “Positions” in a range of enchanted settings, from a swing set in the clouds to a floating marble castle.