The Alcorn State Golden Girls & Fleetwood Mac "Pop" on Billboard charts

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How a black college dance troupe landed a decades-old Fleetwood Mac song on the Billboard charts

This tale begins, like so many stories about rock music, in Mississippi, at a historically black college just east of the state’s eponymous river and an hour and a half west of its capital in Jackson.

The Golden Girls, an all-female dance squad at Alcorn State University, are a fixture of the school’s football games and events such as Mardi Gras parades, where the roughly dozen or so dancers move to the sounds of a drum line and marching band playing pop songs.

In early March, a popular Instagram fan page for the Golden Girls, @_forevergolden, posted a short clip of the squad entering the college’s Jack Spinks Stadium before a game and dancing to the 1993 R&B hit “Stay.”

The “color guard” meme took off, drawing thousands of retweets and millions of views. And the video was so widely seen that it catapulted “Dreams” — more than 40 years old — into the top 20 on Billboard’s rock music chart. Streams of the former No. 1 Billboard song from June 1977 were up 24 percent to 1.9 million the last week of March, Billboard reported, in a testament to the wide reach of viral images.
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