Or at least, watched one minute of it. “At any given time, about 24 million viewers were watching,” reports the Times, good for a cumulative total that, for context, is about one tenth of the audience that tuned into to watch Michael Jackson’s funeral. Still, 83 million is a big number–and so is $57 million, the amount of money the telethon raised. No word on what the exact viewership numbers were in the stunned aftermath of Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Bono’s “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)”; word is the recording from Friday’s benefit is about to go #1 in the country, so probably ratings were high, even then–shows what we know. [Media Decoder]
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