It held on to its spot for four weeks. It was the highest first-week UK sales for any song in at the time. On the New Zealand Singles Chart, the single entered at number sixteen, then jumped to number three the following week.
It peaked at number two in its fourth and fifth weeks, and spent eleven consecutive weeks in the New Zealand Singles Chart top ten. The single debuted on the Canadian Hot at number nine, while debuting at number two on the digital songs chart with 19, downloads sold, the biggest debut for a first time charted artist since the Stereos's "Summer Girl" entered at number two in June The single has been certified gold by Music Canada MC for 40, sales.
The single debuted on the Billboard Hot at number twenty-eight, and at number twelve on the Hot Digital Songs Chart, selling , downloads in its first week. It currently peaked at number four in Hot According to Urbano, the video is about " Louis further described the premise by saying, "It's like a group of girls who are friends, but there's one in particular that's really hot, but she actually doesn't know it. That's the whole point of the song, like she's so hot, but she doesn't realize it The video premiered in the UK on August 19, with a five day countdown leading up to it.
On each of the five days preceding the video's premiere, One Direction posted a teaser trailer of the video on YouTube. Each teaser showed footage from the video and behind the scenes, and one member of the band announcing how many days were left until the video premiere. On February 10, , E! News showed a clip of the music video, but the music video officially premiered in the United States until the next day, February 11, , on Nickelodeon.
On 30 October , seven years after premiering, the video surpassed one billion views on Youtube. It is their first and only video to achieve this. Professor Oren also spoke about the connection between the TV industry and fandom.
Glee was notoriously influenced by its very large and extremely vocal fandom. Especially in the later seasons, its staff wrote in several storylines to appease fans—most notably, the double wedding of two queer couples in the final season was written partially to mitigate tensions between fans of each ship. Glee even broke the fourth wall on multiple occasions to directly address its fandom.
This was a direct reference to the real-life Glee fandom. This comment offended many queer fans, who were upset at being reduced to an unflattering stereotype. In other cases, fandoms have pointed out harmful trends in the TV industry, particularly relating to queer representation on TV. In The , a lesbian character, Lexa, was shot by a stray bullet intended for her female lover and died in a scene that almost exactly mirrored an equally controversial scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer from almost 15 years earlier.
The fandom was outraged and in response, organized a fundraiser for the Trevor Project, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention services for queer teenagers. As a queer woman, fandom played a big role in my coming-out journey. So as I began to question my sexuality over the next couple years, Brittany and Santana were the only examples of queer women in my life up until that point. In middle school, the thought that I could be gay terrified me; on most nights I cried myself to sleep because I worried that liking girls was wrong.
During my time as an active member of the Glee fandom, I spoke to many people online who were experiencing similar struggles with their sexualities. My Glee Wiki friends were the first people that I came out to—the anonymity of the Internet allowed me to feel safe enough to finally tell people that I was a lesbian.
And because of the affirmation I received from my Internet friends, I eventually worked up the courage to come out to people in real life. AltHistory althistory. Or, if you prefer your wiki-ing a little less intense, galaxiki. But what all these wikis have in common is the proactive diligence of the contributors, and surprisingly high visitor numbers — helped in many cases by the high Google rankings Wikia has managed to achieve.
Visitors engage wiki resources in many different ways, according to Craig Palmer. Gamers, meanwhile, will use wikis such as wowwiki. But from the end users all the way up to the wiki admins, it's a more complex social structure than on most social media sites — and it's one that the entertainment industry is keen to tap into. Companies such as Warner have already been developing links to Wikia communities as part of their PR drives. Because it's about being positive, comprehensive and accurate.
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