{"id":270149,"date":"2026-06-17T22:33:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T22:33:37","slug":"which-new-york-songs-are-getting-the-brunson-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270149\/","title":{"rendered":"Which New York Songs Are Getting the Brunson Bump?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seemingly everyone<\/a> has gotten a little shine off the New York Knicks winning the NBA Finals Saturday. Okay, not West Wilson or Elmo, but everyone else. Billboard<\/a> made note of New York-themed songs that got a big streaming bump on the night of the championship game. Unsurprisingly, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys\u2019s<\/a> \u201cEmpire State of Mind\u201d led the raw data, with 1.4 million streams that night. However, it had the smallest increase in streams thanks to the Knicks win, with only a 32 percent increase in listens. Seeing a much bigger comparative bost were songs like Sinatra\u2019s version of \u201cTheme From New York, New York\u201d (62 percent increase), Ja Rule, Fat Joe, and Jadakiss\u2019s \u201cNew York\u201d (a 68 percent bump), and Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cNew York State of Mind\u201d (up 71 percent).<\/p>\n

But what about Taylor Swift? On the night she and the Haim sisters got the Cricut out<\/a> to support their team, how much did \u201cWelcome to New York\u201d increase in streams \u2014 both OG and Taylor\u2019s Version<\/a>? With the exception of Ms. Keys, the girlies were absent from Billboard\u2019s blog. Addison Rae\u2019s<\/a> \u201cNew York\u201d saw an increase in streams, anecdotally, among the IG stories of Knicks fans living in Los Angeles. Was there a quantifiable boost as well? Sinatra\u2019s \u201cNew York, New York\u201d did numbers, but what about Liza Minelli\u2019s? Cat Power\u2019s? Further study is required.<\/p>\n

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