Source - http://idolator.com/5169688/the-reverse-swift-cyrus-scales-charts-with-l\ ess-funky-more-honky-tonk
Snippets from the post... While I was on hiatus last week, the biggest mover on the Hot 100 was "Jai Ho," A.R. Rahman's energizing theme from Slumdog Millionaire. The song exploded from No. 100 up to No. 15 in the week just after the song and the movie won their respective Oscars. (This week, it's back down to No. 36.) Digital sales of the song were the primary catalyst for last week's big move, catapulting from about 22,000 in the week leading up to Oscar Sunday, to 130,000 the week after, a nearly sixfold increase. But Top 40 radio jumped on the song also; it ranked 47th among all songs at pop radio last week. The bad news: most of that airplay is coming from the remix featuring vocals from lead Pussycat Doll (and Idolator punchline) Nicole Scherzinger. Hence, on the Hot 100, the song's full credits read, "Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)," by "A.R. Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls featuring Nicole Scherzinger." (Smells like the solo-career-stoking credit "Wham! featuring George Michael" used for "Careless Whisper" back in the day.) The good news: digital-song buyers have better taste than radio programmers - Rahman's original recording is handily outselling the PCD remix. In the week just after the Oscars, the ratio was nearly four-to-one in favor of Rahman by himself (103,000 downloads, versus 27,000 for the PCD version). This week, the ratio's down to about two-to-one, but Rahman still outsells La Scherz (36,000 to 18,000). One last, fun tidbit: Best as I can tell-going just by Hot 100 data over the last 50 years - "Jai Ho" is by far the biggest chart beneficiary of an Oscar Best Song win in history. No song has ever risen dozens of spaces up the chart just one week after the ceremony. Mostly, that has to do with timing. "Jai Ho" is an emerging hit right now, whereas most years, the ultimate award-winner either wasn't a chart hit at all, or it had already topped the charts weeks or even months before the Oscar ceremony (e.g., 1971's "Theme from Shaft," 1978's "Last Dance," 1986's "Take My Breath Away," 1997's "My Heart Will Go On," 2002's "Lose Yourself," among many others). Among the few songs that needed the Oscar boost to fly up the charts, to varying degrees, were such '70s winners as Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were" and "Evergreen"; the Carpenters' cover of "For All We Know"; Maureen McGovern's "The Morning After"; and Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy." And before "Jai Ho," the Oscar winner with the most visible improvement in the week right after the ceremony was Bruce Springsteen's 1993 winner "Streets of Philadelphia," which crept up a couple of spaces to enter the Top 10 in April 1994, right after the Boss collected his statue.
