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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why Beyonce and Harry Styles Are Celebrating for the Same Reason · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: One of the ways you can really determine the enduring
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Speaker 2: popularity of a song is when its music video joins
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Speaker 2: the billion views club on YouTube. Sometimes it's a fairly
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Speaker 2: new song and gets so undeniably hot it hits the
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Speaker 2: mark in just a few years, while other times it's
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Speaker 2: a classic that earns its place throughout sustained steady play.
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Speaker 3: And the two latest members of the club each represent
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Speaker 3: one of those situations, starting with Beyoncé and Jay-Z's Crazy
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Speaker 3: in Love, with Beyoncé' s 2003 debut solo single finally earning
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Speaker 3: its place 16 years after it was posted.
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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Harry Styles also earned a spot on the Billion
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Speaker 4: Views Club with As It Was only needing four years
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Speaker 4: to get it done. And it's also worth mentioning that
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Speaker 4: these aren't the first songs to hit a billion on
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Speaker 4: YouTube for either of them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Beyonce has three songs total with Crazy in Love,
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Speaker 2: joining Halo and Single Ladies, while Harry has two with
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Speaker 2: Sign of the Times and Now As It Was. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.