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Hits of the Year Edition Part 1

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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The Strange Math That Produces Billboard's Top Song of the Year

Glass Animals Heatwaves is Billboard's top song of the year. It might kick off a hitmaking streak for this four-man alt-pop band from Oxford, England. Will they be a Beatles, a Blondie, a Black Eyed Peas? Or are Glass Animals Faded to go the way of Domenico Modunio, Los Del Rio, or Daniel Powder? We won't be able to answer that last question, but we can rank heatwaves in the pantheon of year-end number one.

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