Kanye West’s Cam’ron and Consequence-assisted “Gone,” a track off his 2005 album, Late Registration, debuted at #18 in the Hot 100 this week. “Gone” is also #6 on the R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart and #4 on the Rap Songs chart, as per billboard.com.
The Kanye West song gained popularity after being featured in a viral video recently.
The viral video featured writer and comedian Marina Shifrin who recently quit her job as a video editor. The clip showed her explaining her departure by dancing around an empty office to the tune of Kanye West’s “Gone.”
“On September 28th, I decided to leave my job as a journalist because I felt the industry wasn’t doing justice to its talented writers,” Shifrin wrote in an article on huffingtonpost.com. “I wanted to leave in a way that would make my parents laugh and do justice to my position as viral video editor. I came up with this video. I woke up the next day and found out a few people, 11 million and counting, had viewed it.”
The video, which has more than 15 million views, can be viewed below.
Shifrin was invited to “The Queen Latifah Show” to discuss the viral video’s success. While on the program, Latifah appeared to offer Shifrin a job.
“I want to be surrounded by cool, creative, interesting people,” Latifah said. “And with your experience, maybe I could create a position. What if I created something called digital content producer? You think that might be something you’re interested in?” Shifrin said she was interested and the two said they’d speak more about it.
Digital sales of “Gone” have also gone up, as per billboard.com. The selection moved approximately 9,000 units this week, according to Nielsen Soundscan. YouTube reports 6.2 million streams of the song in the U.S., allowing the single to rank at #4 in the Streaming Songs chart.
According to billboard.com, Kanye West now has 59 hits that have me Hot 100. Drake has 65, Jay Z has 80 and Lil Wayne has 120.
Ah, from back when I liked the majority of Kanye’s music.
that video was lame as fuck
Before Kanye lost his mind
Damn Wayne got all them hits cuz he does a million features. Kanye probably has more of his songs featuring others then Drake or Wayne
Holy media. People must be stupid that they didn’t knew this before.
Wow. This type of video is the type of shit that only white people find at all funny.
Im white and I thought it was stupid. It seems like a lot of the videos that go viral appeal to morons and people who like terrible things
not as funny as the sickle cell you racist fuck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1dxE1tVoA
Kanye’s best buddy egomaniac designer Marc Jacobs tortures a young girl. He stole her ideas and harassed her. He’s been stalking her since she was 16. Jacobs is a manipulator. He is to blame for Miley’s new shocking image. Read the details on: http://styleangelique.blogspot.dk/
naw ill pas
You nailed it
Ovbious publicity stunt by Kayne West. Miley Cyrus is successful on her own without having to do any stunts. Her twerking is a characteristic in hiphop that is becoming more cool amongst females.
Oh, the irony and the bullshit in this comment. This is not a publicity stunt by Kanye at all; it’s a viral video by a comedian that had the song in it. Miley is only successful because of publicity stunts. Her twerking is not a characteristic in hiphop that is becoming more cool amongst females, it’s the opposite; it’s exploitation.
Kayne paid the comedian to do that stunt. Miley is successful because of her singles that hit the top tier of the charts. Twerking’s not exploitation, its the new way of selling sex willingly. Also, she’s making more money than you.
you mr is the…..
biggest idiot ever !!! @dentaldamboy
#axisisabitch
Leave the hashtags on Twitter.
No no no, Actually Axis is right @dentaldamboy your are one of the Biggest idiots ever to leave comments in any type of comments section ever. You make up shit all the time and say dumb shit it’s kind of actually why ppl make fun of you on here.
the truth is you guys look more stupider than his words because you just keep replying to his idiocy.
@Anonymous oh is that why you just commented on the topic too then??? Hippocratic much?
id hit it
that shit cray..seriously tho
That Cam’ron verse tho
royce da 59 – gone
I need to point this out to all you dumb newbies new to the hip hop culture, “twerking” was around well before youR “FLAT ASS” Miley Cyrus starting doing it. Jamaican women were doing it long before any of these women in North AMERICA and Definitely well before MILEY CYRUS. I’m sick of people claiming her to be the one to have made it cool and have been the first to do it.
8 YEARS LATER. NOW YOU ALL UNDERSTAND THAT I RELEASE TIMELESS MUSIC. JIMMY KIMMEL CAN SUCK MY FAT BLACK KARDASHIAN PUSSY JUICED DICK. I AM A FUCKING ROCKSTAR!!!!! I GET MORE PUSSY THAN TOMMY LEE, MOTLEY CRUE, POISON, AND ALL THOSE OLD FUCKING ROCKSTARS EVER DID!!! I AM MOTHERFUCKING KANYE WEST!!! I WILL BE FUCKING KRIS JENNER, KIM, AND KHLOE ALL AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. AT THE SAME DAMN TIME!!! FUCK OUTTA HERE. YOU’RE IN MY WORLD!!!
Shut the fuck up.
YOU’RE A SENSITIVE PUSSY WHO GETS NO PUSSY. GO FUCK YOURSELF, YOU TRANNY. I AM A MOTHERFUCKING ROCKSTAR!!!!
Hilarious stuff LMAO
Late Registration is my favorite Kanye album. Instrumentaly its superior to anything before or after it. Cant believe so many people are just now getting hip to “Gone”. One of the best songs on the album that everyone seems to pass by. The violin break after Consequence verse and Kanyes closing verse really made that song even better.
Agree 100%. How that beat transforms then Kanye comes back and kills it
Definitely agree. Late Registration is definitely my favorite Kanye album. The orchestra he invited into this album was great. The production is on another level.
Couldn’t agree more. I purchased it on release day and it still gets played more than his following albums combined (not including College Dropout). 8 years ago he actually warranted that huge ego…
Gone is a truly fantastic song too, one of the best on the album.
^ sighhhhh
White people
The only white person here is you.
Co-Signature.
Yeezy’s last verse is an all-time great verse. Don’t expect him to rap like that anymore but sure is great to revisit those days.
illuminati tring to get people listeing to late registration
FROM YEEZUS TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE IT REAL HIP HOP
THEY ALL FUCKING AROUND ON PURPOSE
FROM EM TO KANYE
get a life please
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/23/23832/16×9/500.jpg?5907
Gone is just the perfect example of why Kanye a GOAT musician even if can be an egotistical prick.
he even said it him self that he isnt a musician, he doesnt know how to play a single instrument. he’s an artist.
Rappers are musicians FOH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXNeu-H3Tog
So suddenly 8 years later this song is cool? Fucking people man…song is good now just as it was then. Fuck these trends
Man cosign!! I hate how people follow every ebb and flow of the media. Damn have your own thoughts and opinions!
Maybe the never heard it before? Calm the F down idiots