Peaked September
On the other hand, the song likewise leaped a massive 622%in daily sales, from a negligible figure on Sept. 20 to 2,000 on Sept. 21 st. That’s a larger leap than the walkings in sales “September” saw on the 21 st in 2019 (as much as 3,000, a 473%gain) or 2018 (as much as 4,000, a 563%gain)– although the total sales are down, likely due to digital download sales continuing to move across the board every year.
The full-week sales surge for “September” likewise results in the tune returning to Billboard‘s Digital Tune Sales chart at No. 19 for the chart dated Oct. 3– a new high for the song, which originally peaked at No. 3 on the Signboard Hot 100 in February 1979 It’s the third week on the Digital Song Sales chart for “September,” after it first debuted at No. 26 two years ago on the chart dated Oct. 6, 2018, and after that returned to the list below year at No. 25 on the chart dated Oct. 5, 2019 (The tune likewise increases 18 -4 on R&B/ Hip-Hop Digital Tune Sales this week, another new peak.)
That’s the greatest a 20 th-century song has ranked thus far on the still exceptionally new chart; Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” released in 1975, had previously notched a high of No. 131 on the first-ever Billboard Global 200 listing, dated Sept.19
Twitter Video
This year’s version of Adejuyigbe’s “September”- commemorating video has thus far acquired a massive 2.2 million views on Twitter, along with 665,000 views on Instagram. The video consists of a message from its creator at the end that declares he will stop to do the yearly Sept. 21 videos after this year (his fifth) unless audiences help raise $50,000 for a combination of causes he promoted. Turnout for the charity page was so enormous that it crashed the whole Action Network site and ultimately raised over $300,000 for Adejuyigbe’s causes.
Sept. 21 isn’t the only annual date that “September” sees a big increase in consumption: The tune likewise sees routine bumps on the 1st of the titular month each year, including a dive in on-demand audio streams from 307,610 to 484,046 this Sept. 1st (up 57.4%) and in sales from 160 to 595 (up 271.9%).