Macklemore's 'Same Love' Hit #1 On The iTunes Charts Overnight

Tony Abbott's campaign against Macklemore's performance of his equality anthem, Same Love, at the NRL Grand Final this weekend has resulted in a spectacular own-goal, as the song rocketed up the iTunes Australian charts overnight to hit #1.

Prior to Abbott's complaints about politics in sport, wilfully forgetting the absolute raft of politically charged moments involving athletes over the past forever, the song — which is still inside the top 20, sitting at #15 — was placed at #100 before making its meteoric ascent.

Yesterday someone started a petition in Australia to ban me from playing Same Love at the #NRLGF. Today its #1 on iTunes. Love is winning ❤️

— GEMINI (@macklemore) September 28, 2017

Fellow politicians Pauline Hanson and Bob Katter have also put in their two cents echoing Abbott's sentiments. As News Corp reports, the former suggested that artists such as John Farnham or Daryl Braithwaite should have been performing, while the latter claimed that allowing the performance to go ahead was like "sewage seeping into the debutante ball".

Classy stuff.

Meanwhile, because these people have clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect, at Same Love's peak overnight, Macklemore had two other songs — Good Old Days (ft Kesha), which is now at #1 itself, and Glorious (ft Skylar Grey) — inside the top 10.

The song's accompanying music video also briefly displaced Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do video from the #1 spot, though that tune has since reclaimed that position, with Same Love still sitting at #2 this morning.

.@macklemore’s ‘Same Love’ is number one in the Australian iTunes charts, thanks to @TonyAbbottMHR and the #streisandeffect pic.twitter.com/pAF54eUngu

— Paul Kidd (@paulkidd) September 28, 2017