Popularity of made up words in songs 2014

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 22, 2014
This statistic presents information on the popularity of made up words in song lyrics gone mainstream worldwide as of August 2014 in terms of number of streams and tweets. It was found that Drake's made up word "YOLO", an acronym for "you only live once" in the song "The Motto" has been streamed on demand more than 53.6 million times and shared on Twitter for over 65.1 million times.

Popularity of made up words in songs worldwide as of August 2014, by number of streams and tweets (in millions)

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Release date

August 2014

Region

United States

Survey time period

as of August 14, 2014

Supplementary notes

Nielsen BDS Encore was used to collect the number of on-demand streams from release, or if released before 1993, 1/1/1993 - 8/14/2014. Crimson Hexagon, a third-party data provider, was used to collect the number of tweets containing each word from 5/23/08 to 8/15/14

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