Call it the Kamala Harris effect: Beyoncé is seeing a huge surge in streams for her song “Freedom” after the leading Democratic candidate for the upcoming presidential election walked out to the 2016 song during her first official appearance as a candidate.
According to Luminate, the U.S. on-demand streams for “Freedom” are up over 1,300 percent between Sunday and Tuesday, surging from 16,600 streams to 235,400 streams in that timeframe. “Freedom,” which features Kendrick Lamar and was included on Beyoncé‘s sixth album “Lemonade,” blared as Harris visited her Delaware campaign headquarters a day after President Joe Biden
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