Last week it was revealed that <a href="/profile/Nelly" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Nelly</a> owes a whopping $2 million dollars in back taxes, a debt <a href="http://www.spin.com/2016/09/nelly-irs-debt/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">SPIN estimated</a> would require 287,176,547 streams of &#8220;Hot In Herre&#8221; to pay off. Twitter took that stat and ran with it, declaring a #HotInHerreStreamingParty where fans did their best to play the song as many times as possible off of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. Many screenshots of 10-hour &#8220;Hot In Herre&#8221; playlists were shared, but it wasn&#8217;t clear if the movement would actually show a visible spike in sales. Turns out it did, but the charity work fell well short of the mark.
<a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7511182/nelly-hot-in-herre-streams-spike-savenelly-tax-debt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Billboard has reported</a> that streams of &#8220;Hot In Herre&#8221; increased 90% in the week ending September 13th, peaking at a 219% on the final day. Streams of the song jumped to 714,000, up from the previous week&#8217;s 376,000. Seeing as the news broke on the 11th, that&#8217;s not a bad haul. Unfortunately these numbers will not put a dent in Nelly&#8217;s debt, especially considering the depressingly large cut of the extremely small sum that must be handed to the label. Maybe a #CountryGrammarBuyingParty is the better solution?