Jody Rosen and Chris Molanphy: “Harlem Shake” is no. 1 after Billboard begins counting YouTube views: What this means for the future of the charts. (Slate)
YouTube crushing everything does seem like a concern. I love novelty songs, I ride hard for novelty songs—but if, suddenly, all our big hits are goofy YouTube-incubated one-offs, the novelty song will cease to be novel.