In 2013, the song “Blurred Lines” spent almost two months on top of the Billboard Hot 100, earning Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and TI their biggest hit. The song is known for its unrated music video, which featured the three men accompanied by topless models, one of whom is Emily Ratajkowski, whose appearance in the video made her one of the world’s most famous supermodels. For Thicke, who had previously been just a moderately successful songwriter for Usher, Christina Aguilera, and Will Smith, with a performing career highlight of being featured on tracks for Lil Wayne, “Blurred Lines” was his breakout. Ratajkowski was the secret ingredient: “Blurred Lines” accumulated 14.8 million listens right after Billboard started counting streams from YouTube toward its calculations for its charts.
