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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I think this song will become increasingly popular with time as it is very well written and Bette does a great job with it.
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In Wikipedia:
In each of the 21 territories that the album was released, it was given its own track listing, based upon which songs were most popular locally.
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In Wikipedia:
The rapper returned to the spotlight in later years distributing his music through the Internet, as his song “Right Here”, which sampled its hook from Richard Marx’s “Right Here Waiting”, became popular on the website MySpace as well as on some commercial urban radio stations.
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In Wikipedia:
Kalamatiano songs are popular and vast – some of the more traditional kalamatiano songs are “Samiotissa”, “Mandili Kalamatiano”, “Milo Mou Kokkino”, “To Papaki”, “Mou Pariggile To Aithoni”, “Diamandi Dachtilidi”, “Ola Ta Poulakia”, etc.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
They seek to answer the question of why lousy songs can be more popular than good songs and conclude that how a song is rated has to do with how others rate it.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
With the romanticism of songs like “Brigantine” by Pavel Kogan, pirate songs are still popular at author song concerts today.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Why can *n’t I remember which US states are adjacent but I could easily sing “Red Rubber Ball’ ’ for you, a song that was popular in 1966 but is rarely played any more?
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(. ?)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Last month, we wrote about how some record labels were experimenting with waiting until a song became popular and then removing it from iTunes, hoping that this would somehow encourage people to buy the physical CD instead.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
Another song from 1916, became very popular as a music hall and marching song, boosting British morale despite the horrors of that war, was “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit – Bag”.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
“Shoo – Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy” is a popular song about New England cooking, with music by Guy Wood and words by Sammy Gallop.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
The song features floyd’s most popular song – Brick in the wall.
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In Wikipedia:
Songs such as “Boohey Barain”, “Dupatta”, “Mehndi”, “Roshni” and “Bol” have been very popular in the charts.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I mean, I understand if a song is popular, people will want to hear it.
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In Wikipedia:
The song became enormously popular with immigrant audiences, who strongly identified with the young lovers plight.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Last month, we wrote about how some record labels were experimenting with waiting until a song became popular and then removing it from iTunes, hoping that this would somehow encourage people to buy the physical CD instead.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Simply because a song is popular doesn’t make it bad.
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In Simple Wikipedia:
Songs such as “Where the Bee Sucks” are still very popular.
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In Wikipedia:
Another song was also very popular, called “The Youth Song” or “The Past is the Source of Inspiration”, written by NTS member Pavel Zelensky (1904 – 1978) in the late 1930s.
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In Wikipedia:
Brenda Fassie’s 1989 song “Black President”, a tribute to Mandela, was hugely popular even though it was banned in South Africa.
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(. .)))
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