January 2, 20224 yr 09 The Weeknd Blinding Lights 2nd single from After Hours Released: 30th November 2019 Label: The Weeknd XO Chart Statistics NE (12/12/2019) | [12-17-20-41-11-10-8-4-2-1-1-2-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-5-7-7-9-11-10-13-14-12-16-16-16-22-20-21-26-33-29-21-26-26-25-31-33-32-31-36-38-39-36-46-39-50-66-44]-13-18-23-23-26-20-24-24-26-33-30-34-33-38-46-40-40-45-48-50-48-35-42-41-46-51-47-52-47-47-51-45-45-49-56-62-65-64-63-62-65-72-67-68-70-69-77-100-x Sales: 3,100k+ Certification: 5x Platinum 01 Sales 01 Audio Streaming 04 Video Streaming Video 4NRXx6U8ABQ Biography Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness—the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions—a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye—out from behind the mask of making art online—has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. Like the work of collaborator Lana Del Rey or early booster (and fellow Toronto native) Drake, Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums—including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours—whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling—the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable—its own character. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2012 37 Crew Love (Drake feat. The Weeknd) 2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) 2015 04 Earned It -OST/2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 64 Where You Belong -OST- 2015 03 The Hills -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 03 Can't Feel My Face -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 65 Often -1/6- 2015 72 Real Life -AT- 2015 74 Tell Your Friends -AT- 2015 78 Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2015 90 Acquainted -AT- 2015 91 Losers (feat. Labrinth) -AT- 2015 92 Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran) -AT- 2015 48 In The Night -5- 2016 84 FML (Kanye West feat. The Weeknd) 2016 35 6 Inch (Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd) 2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2016 51 False Alarm -IG- 2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 17 Party Monster -3- 2016 26 Rockin' -4- 2016 30 Sidewalks (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -AT- 2016 39 Reminder -AT- 2016 43 Six Feet Under -AT- 2016 47 Secrets -AT- 2016 53 A Lonely Night -AT- 2016 55 True Colours -AT- 2016 68 Love To Lay -AT- 2016 73 Stargirl Interlude (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2016 74 Die For You -AT- 2016 76 All I Know (feat. Future) -AT- 2016 78 Attention -AT- 2016 79 Ordinary Life -AT- 2016 81 Nothing Without You -AT- 2017 83 Comin Out Strong (Future feat. The Weeknd) 2017 38 Lust For Life (Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd) 2017 51 A Lie (French Montana feat. The Weeknd & Max B) 2017 78 Curve (Gucci Mane feat. The Weeknd) 2018 11 Pray For Me (The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar) -OST- 2018 07 Call Out My Name -1- 2018 17 Try Me -AT- 2018 18 Wasted Times -AT- 2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd) 2019 91 Price On My Head (NAV feat. The Weeknd) 2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST- 2019 10 Heartless -1- 2019 01 Blinding Lights -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 20 After Hours -IG- 2020 17 In Your Eyes -3- 2020 23 Smile (Juice WRLD & The Weeknd) 2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd) 2021 02 Save Your Tears -4- 2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd) 2021 13 Take My Breath -1- 2021 15 Moth To A Flame (Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd) 2021 20 One Right Now (Post Malone & The Weeknd) 1 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 12 x Top 10 | 20 x Top 20 | 28 x Top 40 | 56 x Top 100 Social Media The Weeknd http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr I'm just glad Blinding Lights isn't in the Top 5 tbh, looked like it was going that way at one point earlier in the year.
January 2, 20224 yr Author Body was one of the year's better rap hits tbh, I did enjoy it a fair bit at the time. Blinding Lights still sounds great.
January 2, 20224 yr 08 Glass Animals Heat Waves 4th single from Dreamland Released: 29th June 2020 Label: Polydor Records Chart Statistics NE (29/10/2020) | [68-63-68-68-67-73-91-x] RE (14/01/2021) | 48-45-43-38-34-24-26-23-22-24-23-25-24-21-24-20-19-19-22-30-57-57-58-63-61-68-65-73-59-57-54-57-53-60-18-10-8-7-8-5-5-6-5-7-8-28-31-41-51-53-65-72-... Sales: 1,000k+ Certification: Platinum 18 Sales 06 Audio Streaming 14 Video Streaming Video mRD0-GxqHVo Biography According to legend, Glass Animals chose their name by picking two words out of the dictionary at random—but you couldn’t come up with a better combination for a group that toes the line between the pristine and primal. On their 2014 debut, Zaba, the Oxford quartet aligned themselves with a storied lineage of abstract alt-rock—the moody atmospheres of Radiohead, the tropical textures of Animal Collective—but in Dave Bayley, Glass Animals possess an uncommonly smooth singer who could mould those left-field influences into sultry, R&B-flavoured pop songs. While the album made them indie darlings, it also earned the group admirers beyond the typical NME reader—the 2015 single “Lose Control” saw them team up with Brooklyn MC Joey Bada$$ for a trippy rap track. That sense of anything-goes openness fully flourished on 2016’s How to Be a Human Being, whose procession of freaky, funky anthems and synth-smeared slow jams earned Glass Animals their first Mercury Prize nomination. But after drummer Joe Seaward was nearly killed in a 2018 cycling accident, Glass Animals dialled down the eccentricity for 2020’s Dreamland, a more intimate record that further harmonized the art-rock/club-pop dialectic at the heart of their music. Speaking about the single “Your Love (Déjà Vu)” to Apple Music, Hayley said, “The idea was to take my favourite '90s producers like Timbaland and The Neptunes and the way they used samples, yet record a lot of those sounds in the way The Beatles or Beach Boys might’ve done it... and then taking Beatles and Beach Boys sounds and resampling them as [those producers] might’ve done.” That Dreamland cracked the Top 10 in both the UK and US is a testament to Glass Animals’ gift for melding different styles and eras into the sound of now. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2020 05 Heat Waves -1- MILLIONAIRE 0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100 Social Media Glass Animals http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr Glass Animals in the EOY top 10, who'd have thought at the start of the year... same again in 2022? :lol:
January 2, 20224 yr Imagine telling me a year back Glass Animals would have one of the biggest songs of 2021 :lol: Easily the biggest surprise hit of this year in my opinion
January 2, 20224 yr 07 The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber STAY 6th single from F*CK LOVE 3: OVER YOU Released: 9th July 2021 Label: Columbia Records Chart Statistics NE (22/07/2021) | 5-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-4-10-11-12-13-16-15-16-16-21-27-30-40-50-51-61-69-... Sales: 900k+ Certification: Platinum 06 Sales 02 Audio Streaming 02 Video Streaming Video kTJczUoc26U Biography The Kid LAROI In an Apple Music interview from mid-2020, The Kid LAROI reminisced about the short but formative time he spent in LA living with the late emo rapper Juice WRLD. They’d hang out all day, bonding, making music, seeing friends, whatever. People always coming and going, never a dull moment. Sometimes, Juice would wake LAROI up in the middle of the night, wild with excitement about a track LAROI had to put a verse on. Other mornings, LAROI would wake up to his and Juice’s managers saying it was time to pack up and head to Texas. Like, now. He was 15, 16 years old. “I’d never experienced anything like that,” he said. “Especially coming from Australia, where everything is kind of like its own bubble.” Not that 15-year-olds outside Australia would be used to it either. But such is the meteoric ascent of a talented young rapper circa 2020. Born Charlton Howard in 2003, LAROI—whose name is a reference to the Kamilaroi Indigenous nation, in which he has family roots—grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, and began to work on music when he was a pre-teen. Like Juice WRLD, Post Malone or even Lil Peep, LAROI’s key tracks—“ALWAYS DO”, “TRAGIC” and the Juice WRLD collaboration “GO”—blend ultra-melodic trap with shades of alternative rock and classic pop, a fusion that has put him on the front burner of pop-rap. His first album, F*CK LOVE, hit the Top 10 before he turned 18. - Apple Music Justin Bieber There’s a moment in a 2020 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe where Justin Bieber begins—quietly, hesitantly—to cry. “It was hard for me being that young and being in the industry, and not knowing where to turn, and everyone telling me they love me, and just turning their back on you in a second,” Bieber says, each clause kicking up memories like dust. The point isn’t to weep with or for him—he had more dreams come true in his first 25 years than most people manage in a lifetime. But he’s also one of the few pop stars of his generation to have truly grown up in public, weathering the cable newsification of celebrity culture in the internet era while still trying to develop as both an artist and a person. Even early on, you could tell he had his eye on the future, balancing a doe-eyed wholesomeness with earnest attempts at hip-hop and R&B, material that suited him as a kid with material that reflected his growth into adolescence and adulthood. Some teen-pop singers end up trapped in amber; Justin Bieber has, knocks and all, kept swimming. Born in London, Ontario, in 1994, Bieber was famously discovered when his future manager, Scooter Braun, stumbled on some performance videos that Bieber’s mom had uploaded to YouTube to share with family and friends. Braun, who understood not only Bieber’s appeal but the potential of the internet, encouraged him to keep making videos and keep the equipment cheap—an approach that not only helped Bieber’s growing fanbase to understand that he was still just a kid like them, but drafted a new blueprint for how artists could reach audiences in the digital era. With the exception of a voice change around 2011, 2009’s My World, 2010's My World 2.0 and 2012's Believe are more or less of a piece: the sound of a boy trying to stick the landing into puberty. Released in 2015, Purpose showed Bieber developing a more thoughtful connection to his material, including collaborations with vanguard pop producers like Diplo, Skrillex and benny blanco. After a five-year break during which Bieber underwent significant personal changes—including a detox from touring life, a diagnosis of Lyme disease and a epiphanic marriage to Hailey Baldwin—he came back with 2020’s Changes. “People have been putting me on a pedestal,” Bieber told Apple Music. ""I didn’t ask for that. Obviously I love making music, but there are a lot of people that love making music and they’re not in the position that I’m in. I’m just trying to steward that wisely, steward my relationship wisely. I want people to take a look at my story—hopefully, my words can make a difference.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History The Kid LAROI 2020 43 GO (The Kid LAROI & Juice WRLD) -1- 2020 38 SO DONE -2- 2020 66 ALWAYS DO -AT- 2020 02 WITHOUT YOU -3- 2020 63 Reminds Me Of You (Juice WRLD & The Kid LAROI) -NAS- 2021 47 No Return (Polo G feat. The Kid LAROI & Lil Durk) 2021 02 STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) -4- 2021 42 NOT SOBER (feat. Polo G & Stunna Gambino) -AT- 2021 80 STILL CHOSE YOU (feat. Mustard) -AT- 0 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 2 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 9 x Top 100 Justin Bieber 2010 11 One Time -1- 2010 71 Love Me -PS- 2010 62 One Less Lonely Girl -2- 2010 76 Favorite Girl -PS- 2010 03 Baby (feat. Ludacris) -3- 2010 98 U Smile -5- 2010 84 Never Let You Go -PS- 2010 09 Eenie Meenie (Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber) -4- 2010 33 Somebody To Love -6- 2011 34 Never Say Never (feat. Jaden Smith) -1- 2011 14 Next To You (Chris Brown feat. Justin Bieber) 2011 21 Mistletoe -1- 2011 91 The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) (feat. Usher) -PS- 2012 02 Boyfriend -1- 2012 07 Live My Life (Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber) 2012 39 Turn To You (Mother's Day Dedication) -PS- 2012 34 Die In Your Arms -PS- 2012 30 All Around The World (feat. Ludacris) -4- 2012 22 As Long As You Love Me (feat. Big Sean) -2- 2012 16 Beauty And A Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj) -3- 2012 68 Beautiful (Carly Rae Jepsen & Justin Bieber) 2013 68 Nothing Like Us -AT- 2013 02 #thatPOWER (will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber) 2013 56 Lolly (Maejor Ali feat. Juicy J & Justin Bieber) 2013 14 Heartbreaker -PS1- 2013 20 All That Matters -PS2- 2013 28 Hold Tight -PS3- 2013 41 Wait For A Minute (Tyga & Justin Bieber) 2013 28 Recovery -PS4- 2013 31 Bad Day -PS5- 2013 34 All Bad -PS6- 2013 30 PYD (feat. R Kelly) -PS7- 2013 37 Roller Coaster -PS8- 2013 39 Change Me -PS9- 2013 33 Confident (feat. Chance The Rapper) -PS10- 2014 100 Gas Pedal (Sage The Gemini feat. Justin Bieber & IamSu) 2015 03 Where Are Ü Now (Skrillex & Diplo as Jack Ü feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE 2015 01 What Do You Mean? -1- MILLIONAIRE 2015 01 Sorry -2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 15 I'll Show You -IG- 2015 01 Love Yourself -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 25 Company -4- 2015 33 Mark My Words -AT- 2015 34 The Feeling (feat. Halsey) -AT- 2015 41 Purpose -AT- 2015 38 No Pressure (feat. Big Sean) -AT- 2015 44 Children -AT- 2015 50 No Sense (feat. Travis Scott) -AT- 2015 61 Life Is Worth Living -AT- 2015 63 Been You -AT- 2015 74 We Are (feat. Nas) -AT- 2015 77 Get Used To Me -AT- 2015 88 Trust -AT- 2015 94 All In It -AT- 2016 01 Cold Water (Major Lazer feat. Justin Bieber & MØ) MILLIONAIRE 2016 02 Let Me Love You (DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE 2016 63 Deja Vu (Post Malone feat. Justin Bieber) 2017 01 Despacito (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE 2017 01 I'm The One (DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne) MILLIONAIRE 2017 05 2U (David Guetta feat. Justin Bieber) 2017 02 Friends (Justin Bieber & BloodPop®) -NAS- 2018 03 No Brainer (DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance The Rapper & Quavo) 2019 01 I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) MILLIONAIRE 2019 29 Don't Check On Me (Chris Brown feat. Justin Bieber & Ink) 2019 17 10,000 Hours (Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber) 2020 05 Yummy -1- 2020 61 Get Me (feat. Kehlani) -IG- 2020 08 Intentions (feat. Quavo) -2- 2020 29 Forever (feat. Post Malone & Clever) -AT- 2020 04 Stuck With U (Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber) -NAS- 2020 07 Holy (feat. Chance The Rapper) -1- 2020 17 Lonely (Justin Bieber & benny blanco) -2- 2020 04 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree -NAS- 2020 09 Monster (Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber) 2021 04 Anyone -3- 2021 10 Hold On -4- 2021 02 Peaches (feat. Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON) -5- 2021 24 As I Am (feat. Khalid) -AT- 2021 02 STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) 2021 56 Don't Go (Skrillex, Justin Bieber & Don Toliver) 2021 29 Ghost -6- 2021 88 Red Eye (feat. TroyBoi) -AT- 7 x #1 | 21 x Top 5 | 27 x Top 10 | 35 x Top 20 | 58 x Top 40 | 82 x Top 100 Social Media The Kid LAROI Justin Bieber http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
January 2, 20224 yr Author a surprisingly decent pop effort from Laroi and Bieber there, can't begrudge this being top 10.
January 2, 20224 yr 06 Dua Lipa featuring DaBaby Levitating 5th single from Future Nostalgia Released: 27th March 2020 / 13th August 2020 (Blessed Madonna remix) / 2nd October 2020 (DaBaby remix) Label: Dua Lipa Chart Statistics NE (20/08/2020) | [39-71-72-77-93-x RE (15/10/2020) | 30-22-13-14-13-10-10-5-7-20-23-73-68]-5-9-11-12-15-34-32-37-38-43-39-36-36-34-38-32-28-24-28-27-23-18-24-21-24-26-27-37-27-32-37-38-42-44-51-58-57-60-54-56-61-75-72-77-79-83-84-x Sales: 1,300k+ Certification: 2x Platinum 02 Sales 04 Audio Streaming 04 Video Streaming Video TUVcZfQe-Kw Biography There’s purpose in Dua Lipa’s euphoric pop. “For me, it’s about championing women and putting ourselves in the position of power,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020, ahead of the release of her second album, Future Nostalgia. “I have been inspired by the female alphas that have shown me that we can do it. And that we can wear the pants, you know? We need more of that in music.” Forcing the world to get a little more comfortable with female alphas has been a mission statement for Lipa (born in London to Kosovar Albanian parents in 1995) since her 2017 self-titled debut. It housed the triumphant breakup smash “New Rules”, the self-love anthem “IDGAF” and the assured “Hotter Than Hell”—songs which made it clear that this was no ingénue, but rather an outspoken, effortlessly cool face of pop’s future. Indeed, that status was cemented a year later when Lipa made history as the first female solo artist to receive five BRIT Award nominations. She won two and, in 2019, added two Grammys to her mantelpiece. Despite the success of her debut, Lipa wasn’t interested in recreating its hits. “People always say, ‘The second album is really scary,’ but for me, it’s more scary to go back into the studio and try to create something like ‘New Rules’ or ‘IDGAF’ over and over again,” she said. “I feel like I’d end up in a vicious cycle of trying to get somewhere but never being able to mature as an artist.” And so, to move forward, she pivoted to the past, drawing on disco and funk—and filtering it through her ahead-of-its-time pop—to arrive at Future Nostalgia. Decadent and every bit as empowering as those early hits, it brought Lipa her first Mercury Prize nod, multiple Grammy nominations and a rightful place in pop’s upper echelons. And with it, too, came Lipa’s new purpose. Released just as the world went into lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, Future Nostalgia became an urgent tonic for tough times—danced to in living rooms across the world. Yet Lipa wasn’t done there: Five months later, she unveiled Club Future Nostalgia, a thrilling remixed version on which the singer teamed up with club queen The Blessed Madonna, and guests including Madonna, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani and Mark Ronson, to bring lockdown-fatigued listeners another dose of escapism. “I didn’t think I’d be putting albums out during a global pandemic,” added Lipa. “But it’s just about creating experiences for everyone at home. That’s the most important thing for me now.” All of this, of course, is only just the beginning. “I really feel like I’m finding my feet,” said Lipa. “I feel so proud of Future Nostalgia as a whole and the most confident and the most myself making it. But I’m already planning the next move.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History Dua Lipa 2016 15 Hotter Than Hell -2- 2016 30 Blow Your Mind (Mwah) -3- 2016 10 No Lie (Sean Paul feat. Dua Lipa) 2017 09 Be The One -1/4- MILLIONAIRE 2017 14 Scared To Be Lonely (Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa) MILLIONAIRE 2017 86 Lost In Your Light (feat. Miguel) -5- 2017 01 New Rules -6- MILLIONAIRE 2018 03 IDGAF -7- MILLIONAIRE 2018 01 One Kiss (Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa) MILLIONAIRE 2018 04 Electricity (Silk City & Dua Lipa feat. Diplo & Mark Ronson) 2018 36 Kiss And Make Up (Dua Lipa & BLACKPINK) -AT- 2019 24 Swan Song -OST- 2019 02 Don't Start Now -1- MILLIONAIRE 2020 03 Physical -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 06 Break My Heart -3- 2020 31 Hallucinate -4- 2020 72 UN DIA (ONE DAY) (J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny & Tainy) 2020 05 Levitating (feat. DaBaby) -5- MILLIONAIRE 2020 79 Fever (Dua Lipa & Angèle) -PS- 2020 08 Prisoner (Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa) 2021 95 Real Groove (Kylie Minogue & Dua Lipa) 2021 25 We're Good -6- 2021 51 Love Again -7- 2021 14 Demeanor (Pop Smoke feat. Dua Lipa) 2021 01 Cold Heart (Elton John & Dua Lipa) 3 x #1 | 8 x Top 5 | 12 x Top 10 | 15 x Top 20 | 20 x Top 40 | 25 x Top 100 DaBaby 2019 97 INTRO -1- 2019 66 BOP -2- 2019 13 My Oh My (Camila Cabello feat. DaBaby) 2020 54 Oprah's Bank Account (Lil Yachty & DaBaby feat. Drake) 2020 46 FIND MY WAY -1- 2020 01 ROCKSTAR (feat. Roddy Ricch) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 14 For The Night (Pop Smoke feat. Lil Baby & DaBaby) 2020 05 Levitating (Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby) MILLIONAIRE 2021 53 I DID IT (DJ Khaled feat. Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Baby & DaBaby) 1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 4 x Top 40 | 9 x Top 100 Social Media Dua Lipa DaBaby http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/uploads/group_images/of_208.png
January 2, 20224 yr My favourite Dua single, so glad this was so massive! :wub: DaBaby's great on it too despite him making a complete fool out of himself (to say the bare minimum) this past year.
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