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[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It seems like it's unclear who actually sang it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just recorded by a bunch of randos vs people actually in jail. But the idea than anybody could actually believe that a version of America the Beautiful would make the billboard charts and beat Taylor Swift is comical.

[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/donald-trump-j6-prison-choir-justice-for-all-digital-song-sales-chart-1235289593/amp/

Well, it was from around the time the song released… it unfortunately seems true. It’d be interesting if there was a way to analyze the data to see how many of the downloads were unique…

It had 442,000 streams while Morgan "dipshit" Wallen's song had 38.9 million according to your source.