You might want to sit down for this … or bend over into a twerking position. After , her upcoming album “Bangerz” jumped to No. 5 on the iTunes album chart, according to data released by MTV. That’s right, shamelessly rubbing your body on a man nearly twice your age will give you a pretty substantial sales spike.
As for the performance’s social impact, it brought approximately 306,100 tweets-per-minute (which is apparently a unit of measurement these days) and 4.5 million tweets by the end of the show. This isn’t counting the conversation on Monday, which brought a number of Miley Cyrus twerking memes,
For Thicke, his new single “Give it 2 U” saw a 306 percent increase in sales and his album “Blurred Lines” jumped 30 percent.
But to make you feel slightly better about the human race, Justin Timberlake (who did no twerking that we know of) saw a 1,876 percent increase in sales
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