Americans woke up Monday morning with the Grammys and Whitney Houston on their minds — and they rushed to Google’s search bar to get their fix of both the topics that dominated conversations over the weekend.
Pop icon Houston died Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles on the eve of music’s biggest event. Producers of the 54th Grammy Awards immediately handpicked Jennifer Hudson to sing Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” hit at Sunday’s ceremony.
As of 1 p.m. ET, 19 of the 20 most-searched items on Google at that moment dealt with Grammy topics, and “jennifer hudson tribute to whitney houston” was the top trending search term.
An official video of Hudson’s performance has yet to be released and videos uploaded on YouTube have been getting pulled because of copy claims from CBS. The lack of an official clip is likely helping to fuel the search hike.
Hudson had previously sang the song in front of Houston in 2010 during a BET Honors show. The YouTube videos of that performance were taken down overnight.
Via:Mashable