Hit Parade: The Twerking and Chatrouletting Edition
b'Even before the launch of MTV, the music video has been making pop songs buzzworthy. And since the early \\u201980s, it has transformed also-rans into hitmakers\\u2014from the Buggles and Duran Duran to Peter Gabriel and a\\u2011ha. But until the early 2010s, watching a video didn\\u2019t count on the Billboard charts. That all changed thanks to YouTube\\u2014and the biggest immediate beneficiary from the addition of video to the charts was a rising pop star, incubated on the Disney Channel, but looking to change her image. Miley Cyrus was born into hitmaking, line-dancing, multimedia royalty, and she used video titillation\\u2014and even the social site Chatroulette\\u2014to top the charts. But what did all that provocation mean for\\u2026y\\u2019know, the music? And how is video still making hits\\u2014including the song that\\u2019s No. 1 this very week in 2018?\\xa0 Chris Molanphy explains it all.\\xa0\\nhitparade@slate.com\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'