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  Preview Jack White, Gotye, and the xx's 'Great Gatsby' Songs, 30 Seconds at a Time

  April 17, 2013 – The star-jammed soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's new movie updating F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby continues to drip out in tidbits too small to reveal much about the music's quality. Oh, sure, Fergie's full "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody," abetted by Q-Tip and GoonRock, was immediately recognizable as "an obnoxiously loud, prototypically LMFAOian dance track," per SPIN's Daniel Kreps. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Categories You Actually Care About

  February 8, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living-room side bets with some sure-thing, Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong about this stuff (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding). …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Big Categories

  February 7, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding!). …
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  Hear DJ Earworm's Latest Masterful Year-End Mashup 'United States of Pop 2012'

  December 19, 2012 – Want to know what 2012 sounded like? For the past few years, DJ Earworm has artfully crafted one long year-end mashup for those who managed to avoid Top 40 radio at all costs. …
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  Who Charted 2012 Year-End Edition: Starring Adele, Taylor Swift, Gotye, and the Black Keys

  December 17, 2012 – Billboard have released their roundup of the year's biggest success (via sales, streams, airplay, "impact"), and the results might surprise you. Like, for one, Justin Bieber wasn't even invited to the party. So for this rare annual edition of "Who Charted?" SPIN breaks down the two biggest charts in the land: The Billboard 200 albums list, and the Hot 100 songs stack, and sheds a little light on the state of our musical nation. …
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  Spotify Users Still Not Over That Gotye Song

  November 29, 2012 – Gotye's endlessly parodied, repeatedly remixed, constantly Shazam'ed "Somebody That I Used to Know" was Spotify's most played and most shared song worldwide this year. In a press release on Thursday (November 29), the company announced that the singer's breakout hit bested popular tracks "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen, "We Are Young" by fun., and "Whistle" and "Wild Ones" by Flo Rida for top song. …
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  Carly Rae Jepsen Ties Gotye for 2012's Longest Run at No. 1

  August 2, 2012 – OnetimeCanadian Idol contestant Carly Rae Jepsen's pop hit "Call Me Maybe" is such a phenomenon, we asked a newbie to liveblog his first listen and tracked down its nine best covers. There's even a mashup of the ode to picking up a guy on a whim with Rihanna's "California King Bed" that "maybe" works. Don't expect the song to go away anytime soon either. "Call Me Maybe" has reached the No. …
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  Still Can't Escape Gotye's 'Somebody'? Hear HIS 6 Biggest Earworms

  July 19, 2012 – All due respect to Carly Rae Jepsen, but Gotye is the left-field success story of 2012. The smoky-voiced Aussie's inescapable breakout single, "Somebody That I Used to Know," from his Making Mirrors album, shot into ubiquity this past winter thanks to an exceptional synergy of hooky ingenuity and video virality. …
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  11 Million People Discovered Gotye's 'Somebody' on Shazam

  June 29, 2012 – One of these days, the world is going to stop being forced to hear about Gotye's ridiculously popular (and inexhaustibly parodied) "Somebody That I Used to Know." Today, however is not that day, due to news that the ubiquitous song is still somehow unrecognizable to a lot of people: Since being uploaded almost a year ago (July 5, 2011, to be exact), it has become the most Shazam'ed song of all time, having been "tagged," or identified,  …
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  Skrillex Approves This Dutch Choir's A Cappella 'Bangarang'

  June 22, 2012 – Remember that one time at the Grammys this year when analog king Dave Grohl made a backhanded comment about electronic music not being as important as rock'n'roll because it wasn't human-made? …
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