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Rebecca Black - Wikipedia
In late 2010, a classmate of Black and music-video client of Los Angeles record label
ARK Music Factory told her about the company.
[15] Black's mother paid $4,000 for Ark Music to produce the music video while the Blacks retained ownership of both the master and the video.
[8][16] The single, "
Friday", written entirely by Ark, was released on YouTube and
iTunes. The song's video was uploaded to YouTube on February 10, 2011, and received approximately 1,000 views in the first month. The video went
viral on March 11, acquiring millions of views on YouTube in a matter of days, becoming the most discussed topic on
social networking site Twitter,
[17] and garnering mostly negative media coverage.
[18] The single was released on March 14, with first-week sales estimated to be around 40,000 by
Billboard.[19] On March 22, Black appeared on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, during which she performed the song and discussed the negative reaction to it.
[20] The song peaked on the
Billboard Hot 100 and the
New Zealand Singles Chart at numbers 58 and 33, respectively.
[21][22] In the UK, the song debuted at number 61 on the
UK Singles Chart.
[23] In response to the YouTube video of "Friday", Black began to receive phone and email death threats,
[24] which were investigated by the Anaheim Police Department.
[25] Black teamed up with
Funny or Die on
April Fool's Day 2011 (when the comedy site was renamed Friday or Die) for a series of videos, including one about the underage teens driving a car in her "Friday" video.
[26] She signed to manager Debra Baum's DB Entertainment, reportedly with
Ryan Seacrest's help.
[27]
So they may have got paid :)