WHITESNAKE's "Here I Go Again" Tops Billboard's "Hot Hard Rock Songs" Chart Following Death Of Video Star TAWNY KITAEN
May 21, 2021, 2 years ago
Billboard is reporting that following the death of Tawny Kitaen, who starred in the video for Whitesnake's '80s anthem "Here I Go Again," the track debuts at #1 on Billboard's Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated May 22.
In the week ending May 13, "Here I Go Again," which led the Billboard Hot 100 for a week in October 1987, drew 2.5 million US streams, up 22%, and sold 1,000 downloads, up 178%, according to MRC Data. (Older songs are allowed on the Hot 100 and its genre-based charts that use the same methodology if ranking in the lists' top halves and have meaningful reasons for their resurgences.)
Kitaen died May 7 at age 59. A cause of death has not yet been announced.
