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Hits of the Year Edition Part 1

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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The Importance of Year End Number One Hits

Billboard's Year End Hot 100 probably won't be led by any one of these hits. Fans are spreading their love around to multiple songs by that hitmaker. After Kim Carn's topped the year end Hot 100 with her 1981 smash Betty Davis Eyes, she never returned to the top ten. Cher didn't do any better in 1999 when she generated her celebrated late-career number one hit Believe. Her follow-up peaked at a dismal number 57.

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