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The Importance of We Are the World

Do They Know It's Christmas peaked on the Hot 100 in mid-January 1985. We Are The World was certified quadruple platinum in April 1985, but it was largely off the radio by June. One of those imitators was even in record shops simultaneously with We are The World. Canada's famine relief offering, Tears Are Not Enough, recorded in Toronto just weeks after world.

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