The post-9/11 Hot 100 showed artists grappling with the tragedy in different ways.
These days, the convenience and accessibility of streaming allows headlines to impact the Billboard Hot 100 more quickly than ever before. Earlier this year, for example, no fewerDMX singles re-entered the Hot 100 within two weeks of the rapper's untimely death.
over her performance at the 1991 Super Bowl. It eventually surpassed its original No. 20 peak by 14 places and remains the only national anthem to achieve top 10 success. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was the Nashville scene that first directly responded to the events of September 11."Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly" had been co-written by Aaron Tippin for his 2000 LPfrom the horrors of September 11: within a month it had given him the biggest of his four Hot 100 hits .
While Eagles'"Hole in the World" and Twista feat. Faith Evans'"Hope" proved some artists still wanted to heal and unite the nation, others began to approach the subject from more challenging angles."The Rising" , the title track from Bruce Springsteen's 9/11-themed album, was a harrowing account of a firefighter's fatal ascent up one of the recently-hit World Trade Center towers.
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