VIDEO: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' 'Same Love' Marriage Equality Track Hits Top 20 on Billboard Hot 100!

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, the rap duo with No. 1 hits "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us", continue to break new ground with their single, "Same Love". The track has now broken into the Top 20 on Billboard's Hot 100 list. Watch the music video!

As of last week, ending June 30, "Same Love" sold 110,000 downloads and moved from No. 23 to No. 8 on the Digital Songs chart. It's also up to No. 16 on the overall Billboard Hot 100 chart. So far, the song has sold 938,000 downloads.

According to The New York Times, the track is "the first song to explicitly embrace and promote gay marriage that has made it into the Top 40". "Same Love" rose to No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart on June 26th, the same day the Supreme Court overturned DOMA and Proposition 8.

Macklemore told the Times that he wrote "Same Love" in support of his two gay uncles and gay godfather in Seattle, and that he thought rap music's rampant homophobia needed to be addressed: "I just wanted to hold myself accountable, and hold hip-hop accountable and bring up an issue that was being pushed under the rug," he said.

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