Fact check: Are people streaming ‘Titanic’ and ‘My Heart Will Go On’ as submarine tragedy unfolds?

As the story of Titan — the submarine that reportedly imploded Sunday while carrying five people to see Titanic wreckage — unfolds, people remain fascinated by all things Titanic.

So much so, rumors spread about how the 1997 movie and its iconic theme song are seeing banner days when it comes to streaming numbers. It turns out, those rumors are only half true.

This week, Titanic — the film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet — broke into Prime Video’s Top 10 most-watched movies on the platform in the United States.

A Prime Video spokesperson said the platform does not break out viewership numbers and declined to comment further.

Prime Video is the most popular streaming platformcarrying the film based on subscriber numbers. It’s also available on Paramount+ and Fubo TV.

According to movie analytics tracking site FlixPatrol, Titanic broke into the No. 10 slot on Thursday — the day the Coast Guard announced the submersible’s implosion. By Friday, the film had risen to the No. 7 spot.

FlixPatrol reported similar spikes in interest from viewers around the world, including Hong Kong, Cyprus, Botswana, and Canada.

On Twitter, an account attempting to imitate the pop culture account @PopBase posted that Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” the Oscar-winning song from Titanic, entered the Billboard Top 100 at No. 12 after the submarine went missing.

But Billboard chart records show the song did not resurface on the Hot 100 nor Hot 200 Charts this week.

When the song debuted in 1997, it spent five weeks on the top of radio charts. The Titanic soundtrack stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for 16 weeks.

The tweet also inaccurately reported that Dion’s song had recently received nearly 8 million streams on Spotify. Spotify Charts data does not reflect those stats. Instead, it says the daily top song in the United States is Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night,” Taylor Swift is the week’s top artist, and the daily viral song is the “Krusty Krew Anthem,” a SpongeBob-inspired track that has earned virality from TikTok.

The tweet has since been updated by Twitter moderators to add fact-checking context, but it had been viewed more than 10 million times as of Friday.

Still, while Dion’s song didn’t have a radio chart resurgence, it has been flagged by TikTok as “popular” for the moment.

The Titanic’s grip on audiences remains strong.

The Titanic film marked its 25th anniversary last year and was celebrated by generations, including Gen Z — where the film has taken on a new appreciation. Even then, the hashtag #titanic had 11.6 billion views on TikTok (As of Friday, it has 25.8 billion).

James Cameron’s wildly popular film is still the fourth-highest-grossing movie of all time. But fans come from all perspectives: marine fascination, history buffs, engineering experts, and more.

“One hundred and eleven years after sinking to the depths of the Atlantic, the ill-fated luxury ocean liner still regularly makes news: new images of the wreck are released, replicas are built, salvage missions are launched,” The Washington Post summarized. “The passengers’ decision to embark on the deep-sea journey — and the international attention the vessel’s disappearance has received — reflects the enduring grip the Titanic has on the public’s imagination.”

This week, Cameron — who has visited the wreckage 33 times — was asked about the parallels he noticed between the initial Titanic shipwreck and the Titan’s implosion. In his now-viral interview with BBC News, Cameron said he was skeptical of the submersible and its parent company, OceanGate.

“I was very suspect of the technology that they were using,” he said, later adding “I felt in my bones what had happened,” regarding the implosion. “For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously — sub’s gone.”