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  Who Charted? It's Cool, One Direction's Got This

  March 21, 2012 – First! In an unsurprising upset, Brit boy band One Direction stormed the Billboard 200 albums chart with Up All Night, which sold 176,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That makes the English group the first U.K. act to open at No. 1 with their debut album. (Thanks, social media promotion!) Can we safely say that boy bands are back now? …
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  Gotye Drops Head-Spinning 'Easy Way Out' Video

  February 27, 2012 – Gotye has returned to the medium that helped make the Belgian-Austrlian electro-popper a global sensation — YouTube — and the results are dizzying. At last count, the video for the Police-esque "Somebody That I Used to Know," from the SPIN Breaking Out subject's latest album Making Mirrors, had racked up nearly 90 million views. The album finally received a U.S. …
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  Breaking Out: Gotye

  February 22, 2012 – WHO: Ten years ago, Belgium-born, Melbourne-based Wouter "Wally" De Backer was drumming for Australian power trio the Basics when he finally wrenched himself out of a creative rut by dabbling in collage-based songwriting. "It was a loop from an old instrumental record from the '60s," he says of the sample that led to "Wonder Why You Want Her," from Boardface, his 2003 debut under the moniker Gotye (pronounced Go-tea-yeh). …
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