
Have you lost your got damned mind? She sang RISE UP.
That’s a song that’ll be played probably for the rest of our lives - that is a HUGE song that went platinum and we’ve all heard it.
Where is janelle monae’s “RISE UP” Is what I’m asking...again man, you’re not disproving the premise of this thread at all.
That song did not become platinum because it got played like a "normal song" does. It became platinum because
1) it was used in trailers
2) it was used in commercials for Idol and other programs
That is the reason I brought it up. This song didn't organically become platinum.
You're questioning Janelle's "success", but not questioning this:
Rise Up is featured in the September 2015
Serena Williams Beats ad campaign.
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On 12 May 2016, the song, "Rise Up" appeared in the twenty-second episode in season 12 of the medical drama,
Grey's Anatomy, entitled "Mama Tried" during the scene where doctors Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins find out who gets the sole custody of their daughter Sofia.
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Later in 2016
Rise Up was featured in the trailer to
The Birth of a Nation. The trailer was released on June 21, 2016 and the film itself came out on October 7 of that same year. The plot centers around enslaved preacher
Nat Turner orchestrating an enslaved people uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
Rise Up has frequently been covered on talent shows around the world including
America's Got Talent (Angelica Hale),
American Idol,
Britain's Got Talent Sarah Ikumu (Season 11) and The B-Positive Choir (Season 12) and
The X Factor UK (Caitlyn Vanbeck & group performance). Kelsea Johnson (Season 14),
Esera Tuaolo (Season 13), Aaliyah Rose (Season 12), Lauren Diaz (Season 11) and Tamar Davis (Season 10) performed the song on The Voice.
Rise Up was used by
Hillary Clinton during
her 2016 presidential campaign. It served as a theme song, often played at her campaign events and rallies.
Rise Up was featured in advertising for the ABC docudrama miniseries
When We Rise. The program chronicled the LGBT rights movement in America.
On 21 October 2018,
Rise Up was used in the episode
"Rosa" of the science-fiction television series
Doctor Who, heard throughout the final scene where
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, and continuing through the end credits.
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On 5 November 2018,
Rise Up was used by
Channel 5 to close the last ever episode of
Big Brother (UK).