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    FILE - In this May 7, 2013 file photo, actor Paul Walker arrives for the World Premiere of "Fast & Furious 6," in central London. Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth'due south song, "See You lot Over again," a tribute to Walker, striking No.i on Billboard Hot 100's nautical chart this calendar week. It is featured on the "Furious 7" soundtrack, which debuted at No.i on Billboard's 200 albums chart this week. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP) (The Associated Press)

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    FILE - In this April ane, 2015 file photo, Charlie Puth arrives at the premiere of "Furious 7" in Los Angeles. Puth and Wiz Khalifa's song, "Run into You Once more," a tribute to Paul Walker, striking No.i on Billboard Hot 100's chart this week. Information technology is featured on the "Furious 7" soundtrack, which debuted at No.1 on Billboard'southward 200 albums chart this week. (Photograph by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) (The Associated Press)

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    FILE - In this Apr 1, 2015 file photo, Wiz Khalifa arrives at the "Furious 7" Takeover held at the Revolt Live Studios in Los Angeles. Khalifa and Charlie Puth'southward song, "Encounter You Again," a tribute to Paul Walker, hit No.1 on Billboard Hot 100's nautical chart this week. It is featured on the "Furious 7" soundtrack, which debuted at No.1 on Billboard's 200 albums chart this week. (Photograph by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File) (The Associated Printing)

ATLANTA – Paul Walker is non only being remembered onscreen, but in music too: The tribute vocal for him, "Encounter You lot Again," hit the elevation of the Billboard Hot 100 chart Thursday.

The song from rapper Wiz Khalifa and budding singer Charlie Puth is from the soundtrack for "Furious 7," the latest installment in the "Fast & Furious" film series that featured Walker.

Puth, 23, sings the emotional hook on the song. As he wrote "See Yous Again," the singer idea most a friend who died effectually the same time as Walker. From there, the words came easily.

"It actually hit home for me when my friend died in a very similar state of affairs," Puth said in an interview Midweek. "Paul Walker's incident was devastating, so I thought about Paul and my friend. I sat downwardly at the piano, played those chords and those words but barbarous out of me."

Information technology took Puth most x minutes to write the hook of the song paying homage to Walker, who was killed in a motorcar crash in 2013. Puth and Khalifa beat out a number of artists who submitted their lyrics and vocals for a Walker tribute song.

"It simply felt correct," Puth said.

"See You Again" already set two Spotify records: It has earned the most streams in a solar day and week with 4.2 million and 21.9 million listens, respectively. And on the Billboard Hot 100 nautical chart, it supplanted Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's fourteen-calendar week run at the top spot with "Uptown Funk."

"I didn't think it was going to happen," said Puth. "I'm still surprised because 'Uptown Funk' is such a vivid record ... then for our song to take its place, it's major."

"See You Again," which has sold 721,193 digital tracks so far, helped the "Furious seven" soundtrack debut at No. 1 on Billboard'south 200 albums chart this calendar week. The moving-picture show has go a box office winner, earning $252 1000000 so far.

Days agone, "Furious vii" star Vin Diesel sang a snippet of the vocal in memory of Walker at the MTV Moving picture Awards.

Grammy-nominated Khalifa, whose hits include "Black and Yellowish" and "Young, Wild & Free," said he wanted to celebrate life and family unit instead of beingness pitiful on "See You Again."

"Information technology'due south such a meaningful song, so I tried to put all those things together," Khalifa said in an interview Wednesday. "Charlie's vocals are astonishing, and then it all came together and made sense."

Puth released his debut single, the Meghan Trainor-featured "Marvin Gaye," earlier this year. The New Bailiwick of jersey native, who was once signed to Ellen DeGeneres' tape characterization, has been busy writing for other acts, including Trey Songz's latest R&B hit, "Irksome Motion."

Puth said the attention he'south received following the success of "See Yous Again" has become "surreal." The singer said he cried after he got the news of the song topping the charts.

"I merely walked outside, looked up at the sky and said, 'Thank you to Paul and my friend,'" Puth said. "My friend e'er used to say I would have a No. 1 hitting. So right at present, I'g just taking it all in."