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Most Played Song of the Decade

January 9, 2010

The most played song of this decade is Chasing Cars
by Snow Patrol according to UK singles chart.

Snow Patrol song Chasing Cars was the most widely played song of the decade, according to music licensing body PPL.

The 2006 track originally reached number six in the UK singles chart, but chalked up 94 weeks in the top 75 through download sales.
Take That’s Shine was as two while Scissor Sisters track I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ finished at three.
The figures were compiled from the number of plays on UK radio, TV, online and in public places such as shops.
Chasing Cars took on a life of its own in terms of airplay after its inclusions on TV shows including US drama Grey’s Anatomy and Gavin & Stacey.

[BBC]

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Silent Night

November 13, 2008

“Silent Night is a traditional and popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by Fr. Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz X. Gruber. The version of the melody that is generally sung today differs slightly (particularly in the final strain) from Gruber”s original.” (Read More)

[wikipedia]

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Ripsaw Music

From wikipedia.org “Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turk & Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas. Its most distinctive characteristic is the use of the common handsaw as the primary instrument, along with various kinds of drums, box [...]

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Ring Around the Rosey

“A common conjecture is that the rhyme is somehow connected to the Great Plague of London in 1665, or perhaps earlier outbreaks of bubonic plague in England. This story is entirely unsupported by textual sources, as there is no mention of the verses, nor written evidence of their existence, before 1881.” [source]

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Did You Know? iTunes

“Did you know: You can drag songs directly from the iTunes Store into your library and make a playlist of 30 second tracks? This may be stupid to some people, but if you”re determining whether you”re actually going to purchase an album from the store, this could be of good use.” [View The Rest!]

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