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The aforementioned video has over 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The meme is a type of bait and switch, usually using a disguised hyperlink that leads to the music video. When someone clicks on a seemingly unrelated link, the site with the music video loads instead of what was expected, and they have been "Rickrolled".
For instance, six years ago, a YouTube video of him playing the drums while singing AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” at Los Angeles’s Troubadour club made him a viral sensation all over again.
"Never Gonna Stop" is a song written and performed by English singer-songwriter Rick Astley. It was released as the second single from his ninth studio album, Are We There Yet? , on 22 August 2023. The track peaked at number 49 on the UK Official Single Sales Chart in October 2023. [ 1 ]
In 1997, French boy band 2Be3 covered the song under the name "Toujours là pour toi", which peaked at No. 4 in France and No. 12 in Belgium (Wallonia). [99] A group of London dance producers called the Rickrollerz made a house music cover version of "Never Gonna Give You Up". [100] In May 2008, the track entered the UK Club Charts at no. 22.
Rickrolling was a very, very popular bait-and-switch prank that involved tricking people to click on disguised hyperlinks . that would lead them to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song ...
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The other two singles from Free were not as successful; "Move Right Out" reached No. 58 in the UK and No. 81 in the US, and "Never Knew Love" reached No. 70 in the UK and did not chart in the US. Free marked the end of Astley's successful four-year period, and "Cry for Help" was the last Astley single to make the Top 10 in either the UK or US.
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