They are like artists who have had a hit song and are also expected to have a hit song the next time out.
Steve Jobs never wrote a hit song, he never made a multi-platinum album, and he never started a record label to push talented musicians into the spotlight: Yet in the last decade the Apple co-founder became the most important figure in the music world.
They can pick up a live ballgame from space, but, since the human body interferes with satellite signals, they all too often drop out in the middle of a base hit or song.
While there is no way to predict which song will be a breakout hit, with enough marketing almost any song can be heard.
Most famous for his hit song A Pub With No Beer, he sold more than five million albums during his 58-year career.
She performed as the opening act on Sarah McLachlan's "Afterglow" tour, and she shared the vocal work with David Bowie on a cover of his hit song "Changes" for the "Shrek 2" movie soundtrack.
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Because the video is so much part of what has made the song a hit, he took 2, 000 image from the video and attached them to the beat sequences, so that the images swap in sync with the music, even though all of it is in constant recombination.
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So I made it a car crash instead, and the song became a Top 10 hit in 1960.
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Hadfield took a few liberties with the lyrics of the 1969 Bowie song, which became a hit upon its 1973 rerelease.
It's performed by a trumpeter whose lungs were too weak to play on the song and was never a hit in its homeland, reaching number 116 in the charts.
This week Haaretz reported on a new hit children's song that is making waves throughout the Arab world.
Route 66 had its own hit song, a television show and a brand of petrol named after it, and it played a prominent role in any discussion of the American roadfaring experience.
The song became a big hit in Detroit during summer, 2009, when the city was in such turmoil.
In 1943, the film Kismet became a huge hit and its most celebrated song was Door hato ai duniyawalon Hindustan hamara hai (Go away you people of the world, India is ours) at the height of the Quit India agitation against the British.
There's been a lot of controversy about this song because, you know, it's a hit, and they're playing.
As soon as the much-hyped song hit the airwaves a petition against it went online, the BBC's Hague correspondent Anna Holligan reports.
Recorded-music sales in the U.S. edged up for the first time since 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan, thanks to lower prices, growing digital song sales and a massive hit from the singer Adele, whose album "21" sold more copies than any title in the last seven years.
The now famous parliamentary speech by the 63-year-old conservative National MP Maurice Williamson mocking the notion of some "gay onslaught" - which, like the song, also became a viral hit - has reverberated here.
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The song was released, became a massive hit and the rest is history.
Custom's latest hit song is an obnoxious ditty about a punk surfer kid sassing the dad of the girl he's dating.
If there was any hope that Field is steering away from controversial bands this time, a sampling of the lyrics from Levold's latest hit song--an obnoxious ditty about someone's daughter--quickly disabuses the notion.
And he sat there--the night before we got hit by the IED, we were actually working on a song he was going to teach me.
And when Blur later made a decent record that aped American indie rock, I still didn't care, except maybe for that little woohoo on their shameless hit "Song 2, " now best known as a TV commercial thing.
Only a year later, their song "The Story of My Life" hit the U.S. country music charts.
It is, of course, A Natural Woman (Grand Central Books), taken from her 1967 hit song sung by Aretha Franklin.
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"I stood on a table - I actually hit my head on the roof - and sung the song, and they all cheered at the end, it was unreal, " he said.
Topping off the list is Daniel Powter, whose hit "Have a Bad Day, " was used as the send-off song on the fifth season of "American Idol, " making it the biggest single of 2006.
Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.
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