The song hit No. 1 in January 1970, and was followed by three more No. 1s in quick succession.
As soon as the much-hyped song hit the airwaves a petition against it went online, the BBC's Hague correspondent Anna Holligan reports.
The legendary rocker immortalized his hometown while cranking out hit song after hit song and famously marrying and divorcing Supermodel Christie Brinkley.
They are like artists who have had a hit song and are also expected to have a hit song the next time out.
Tickets for most of the DJ's coming shows have sold out, and his song has hit No. 1 on iTunes in at least six countries.
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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For that to happen, he needs to have more than one hit song.
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The tin-roofed cabin believed to have inspired the B-52s' hit song "Love Shack" burned to the ground in 2004.
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Crow says she went to her doctor after forgetting the lyrics to her hit song "Soak Up the Sun" while performing.
Custom's latest hit song is an obnoxious ditty about a punk surfer kid sassing the dad of the girl he's dating.
Love blocked its release because she did not want an unreleased song and potential hit, You Know You're Right, to be included.
Most famous for his hit song A Pub With No Beer, he sold more than five million albums during his 58-year career.
Both are due to one man: Gordy, who clearly knows what makes an indelible hit song, but also has an inability to write objectively about that skill.
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.
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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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.
While there is no way to predict which song will be a breakout hit, with enough marketing almost any song can be heard.
The song became a big hit in Detroit during summer, 2009, when the city was in such turmoil.
As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma's hit parody song We Con the World.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
This week Haaretz reported on a new hit children's song that is making waves throughout the Arab world.
The 48-year-old's biggest hit was the 1984 song Police Officer, which reached number 12 in the UK charts.
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