Backstage Pass

Apparently, MTV still can launch musical careers, though not necessarily in the way the cable network has in the past.

Brianna Taylor, pretty much the breakout star of this past season of “The Real World: Hollywood,” has herself a hit single. “Summertime,” written and co-produced by Seaford’s Matthew Bair and co-produced by Massapequa’s Tomas Costanza, who also released the song on his Chamberlain Records, cracked the iTunes Top 100 in the wake of the show’s finale. And the “Brianna Taylor” EP, which features more songs written by Bair and Costanza, has already sold 60,000 copies and reached No. 16 on iTunes’ albums chart.

Taylor’s meeting with Bair and the recording process with Bair and Costanza became part of the show’s storyline and continues to be shown on the channel. And on Monday, Taylor was on WPLJ to celebrate “Summertime” getting added to the station’s playlist.

Brianna Taylor w/Matthew Bair, "Summertime" (live)