Take 52Metro, a Milwaukee punk band, whose song ‘Lockdown’ was wildly popular in one world, where it finished up at the very top of the chart, and yet completely bombed in another world, ranked 40th out of 48 tracks. Exactly the same song, up against exactly the same list of other songs; it was just that in this particular world, 52Metro never caught on.3 Success, sometimes, was a matter of luck.
