New car sales

American new-car sales and Despacito's YouTube view count, both climbing. The car is, statistically, playing the song. The song is, statistically, fuelling some kind of dance in the parking lot. The system is gently overdetermined.

Despacito crossed one billion YouTube views in 2017 and continued accumulating to over 8 billion by 2022, becoming one of the most-viewed videos on the platform. US new-car sales recovered from the 2008-2010 trough and climbed back toward pre-crash levels in the same span, with electric vehicles entering as a meaningful share at the end. Two completely unrelated lines sharing a window because the same six years rewarded both a Latin-pop song's global default-radio status and an auto industry's recovery and EV transition. Different garages, same era.

The 2017-2022 window was generous to long-running hits and slow-recovering industries. Different products, same decade.