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The Official Top 300 most-streamed songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s

 

POS TITLE ARTIST YEAR

 

1 WONDERWALL OASIS 1995

2 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY QUEEN 1975

3 EVERYWHERE FLEETWOOD MAC 1987

4 DREAMS FLEETWOOD MAC 1977

5 DON'T STOP ME NOW QUEEN 1978

6 AFRICA TOTO 1982

7 DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER OASIS 1995

8 IRIS GOO GOO DOLLS 1998

9 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' JOURNEY 1981

10 I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY WHITNEY HOUSTON 1987

11 THE CHAIN FLEETWOOD MAC 1977

12 SUMMER OF '69 BRYAN ADAMS 1984

13 TAKE ON ME A-HA 1984

14 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT TOPLOADER 1999

15 SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT NIRVANA 1991

16 SWEET CHILD O' MINE GUNS N' ROSES 1987

17 MR BLUE SKY ELO 1977

18 GO YOUR OWN WAY FLEETWOOD MAC 1976

19 EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD TEARS FOR FEARS 1985

20 BILLIE JEAN MICHAEL JACKSON 1982

21 LIVIN' ON A PRAYER BON JOVI 1986

22 SEPTEMBER EARTH WIND & FIRE 1978

23 NO SCRUBS TLC 1999

24 RUNNING UP THAT HILL KATE BUSH 1985

25 HOTEL CALIFORNIA EAGLES 1976

26 FAST CAR TRACY CHAPMAN 1988

27 GANGSTA'S PARADISE COOLIO FT LV 1995

28 I'M STILL STANDING ELTON JOHN 1983

29 ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST QUEEN 1980

30 BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY VERVE 1997

31 ROCKET MAN ELTON JOHN 1972

32 STILL DRE DR DRE FT SNOOP DOGG 1999

33 THUNDERSTRUCK AC/DC 1990

34 UNDER PRESSURE QUEEN & DAVID BOWIE 1981

35 TINY DANCER ELTON JOHN 1971

36 SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) EURYTHMICS 1983

37 YOUR SONG ELTON JOHN 1970

38 JUICY NOTORIOUS BIG 1994

39 EVERLONG FOO FIGHTERS 1997

40 I WANT IT THAT WAY BACKSTREET BOYS 1999

41 DANCING QUEEN ABBA 1976

42 EYE OF THE TIGER SURVIVOR 1982

43 YOU CAN CALL ME AL PAUL SIMON 1986

44 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 1980

45 YOU MAKE MY DREAMS DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES 1980

46 9 TO 5 DOLLY PARTON 1980

47 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE POLICE 1983

48 ZOMBIE CRANBERRIES 1994

49 SUPERSTITION STEVIE WONDER 1972

50 WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO WHAM 1984

51 DANCING IN THE DARK BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN 1984

52 HYPNOTIZE NOTORIOUS BIG 1997

53 TAINTED LOVE SOFT CELL 1981

54 NO DIGGITY BLACKSTREET FT DR DRE 1996

55 FOOTLOOSE KENNY LOGGINS 1984

56 CREEP RADIOHEAD 1992

57 COME ON EILEEN DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 1982

58 CARELESS WHISPER GEORGE MICHAEL 1984

59 TAKE ME HOME COUNTRY ROADS JOHN DENVER 1971

60 SULTANS OF SWING DIRE STRAITS 1978

61 CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA OASIS 1995

62 STAYIN' ALIVE BEE GEES 1977

63 HIGHWAY TO HELL AC/DC 1979

64 DON'T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) SIMPLE MINDS 1985

65 CALIFORNICATION RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1999

66 SAY MY NAME DESTINY'S CHILD 1999

67 WITH OR WITHOUT YOU U2 1987

68 ALL THE SMALL THINGS BLINK 182 1999

69 ISLANDS IN THE STREAM DOLLY PARTON & KENNY ROGERS 1983

70 LIVE FOREVER OASIS 1994

71 THREE LITTLE BIRDS BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1977

72 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP RICK ASTLEY 1987

73 RED RED WINE UB40 1983

74 UNDER THE BRIDGE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1991

75 ALL STAR SMASH MOUTH 1999

76 GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN CYNDI LAUPER 1983

77 SWEET HOME ALABAMA LYNYRD SKYNYRD 1974

78 JOLENE DOLLY PARTON 1973

79 WANNABE SPICE GIRLS 1996

80 INSOMNIA FAITHLESS 1995

81 FORGOT ABOUT DRE DR DRE FT EMINEM 1999

82 BEAT IT MICHAEL JACKSON 1982

83 THE GAMBLER KENNY ROGERS 1978

84 I'M GONNA BE (500 MILES) PROCLAIMERS 1988

85 LOSING MY RELIGION REM 1991

86 UPTOWN GIRL BILLY JOEL 1983

87 WE WILL ROCK YOU QUEEN 1977

88 SONG 2 BLUR 1997

89 TOWN CALLED MALICE JAM 1982

90 AMERICAN PIE DON MCLEAN 1971

91 COME AS YOU ARE NIRVANA 1991

92 THIS CHARMING MAN SMITHS 1983

93 WALK OF LIFE DIRE STRAITS 1985

94 DON'T YOU WANT ME HUMAN LEAGUE 1981

95 I WANT TO BREAK FREE QUEEN 1984

96 PIANO MAN BILLY JOEL 1973

97 BASKET CASE GREEN DAY 1994

98 DOWN UNDER MEN AT WORK 1981

99 PARADISE CITY GUNS N' ROSES 1987

100 SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO CLASH 1982

101 TORN NATALIE IMBRUGLIA 1997

102 THE BEST TINA TURNER 1988

103 IN THE AIR TONIGHT PHIL COLLINS 1981

104 FREED FROM DESIRE GALA 1996

105 I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING AEROSMITH 1998

106 BLUE MONDAY NEW ORDER 1983

107 LOVELY DAY BILL WITHERS 1977

108 WALKING ON SUNSHINE KATRINA & THE WAVES 1985

109 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS FOREIGNER 1984

110 SOMEBODY TO LOVE QUEEN 1976

111 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU WHITNEY HOUSTON 1992

112 BELIEVE CHER 1998

113 LITTLE LIES FLEETWOOD MAC 1987

114 FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE CURE 1992

115 YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME BON JOVI 1986

116 GIMME GIMME GIMME (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) ABBA 1979

117 STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU STEALERS WHEEL 1972

118 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE 1976

119 COMMON PEOPLE PULP 1995

120 RADIO GA GA QUEEN 1984

121 TIME AFTER TIME CYNDI LAUPER 1983

122 ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT) LIONEL RICHIE 1983

123 NEVER TOO MUCH LUTHER VANDROSS 1981

124 KILLER QUEEN QUEEN 1974

125 WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE GUNS N' ROSES 1987

126 COULD YOU BE LOVED BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1980

127 ANGELS ROBBIE WILLIAMS 1997

128 WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE BILLY JOEL 1989

129 HEART OF GLASS BLONDIE 1978

130 LOVE WILL TEAR US APART JOY DIVISION 1980

131 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE BILL WITHERS 1971

132 THERE SHE GOES LA'S 1988

133 THE NEXT EPISODE DR DRE FT SNOOP DOGG 1999

134 SIGNED SEALED DELIVERED (I'M YOURS) STEVIE WONDER 1970

135 LANDSLIDE FLEETWOOD MAC 1975

136 BIG POPPA NOTORIOUS BIG 1994

137 CHANGES 2PAC FT TALENT 1998

138 EDGE OF SEVENTEEN STEVIE NICKS 1981

139 PURPLE RAIN PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION 1984

140 STARMAN DAVID BOWIE 1972

141 I HAVE NOTHING WHITNEY HOUSTON 1992

142 HALF THE WORLD AWAY OASIS 1994

143 HUNGRY EYES ERIC CARMEN 1987

144 ENTER SANDMAN METALLICA 1991

145 KARMA CHAMELEON CULTURE CLUB 1983

146 MAMMA MIA ABBA 1975

147 YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG AC/DC 1980

148 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON 1982

149 FAITH GEORGE MICHAEL 1987

150 SANDSTORM DARUDE 1999

151 IS THIS LOVE BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1978

152 LET IT BE BEATLES 1970

153 RETURN OF THE MACK MARK MORRISON 1996

154 A LITTLE RESPECT ERASURE 1988

155 KILLING ME SOFTLY FUGEES 1996

156 NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW STARSHIP 1987

157 AIN'T NOBODY RUFUS & CHAKA KHAN 1983

158 JUMP VAN HALEN 1983

159 CHILDREN ROBERT MILES 1995

160 TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART BONNIE TYLER 1983

161 SHE'S ELECTRIC OASIS 1995

162 SUPERSONIC OASIS 1994

163 PONY GINUWINE 1996

164 WHAT'S UP 4 NON BLONDES 1992

165 HEROES DAVID BOWIE 1977

166 THERE IS A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT SMITHS 1986

167 LOVE REALLY HURTS WITHOUT YOU BILLY OCEAN 1976

168 WISH YOU WERE HERE PINK FLOYD 1975

169 DECEMBER 1963 (OH WHAT A NIGHT) FRANKIE VALLI/THE FOUR SEASONS 1975

170 SMOOTH CRIMINAL MICHAEL JACKSON 1987

171 I WANNA BE ADORED STONE ROSES 1989

172 LET'S STAY TOGETHER AL GREEN 1971

173 GOOD RIDDANCE (TIME OF YOUR LIFE) GREEN DAY 1997

174 HOW WILL I KNOW WHITNEY HOUSTON 1985

175 WHERE IS MY MIND PIXIES 1988

176 YOUNG HEARTS RUN FREE CANDI STATON 1976

177 MAN IN THE MIRROR MICHAEL JACKSON 1987

178 I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING U2 1987

179 FANTASY MARIAH CAREY 1995

180 WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT TINA TURNER 1984

181 SHE'S ALWAYS A WOMAN BILLY JOEL 1977

182 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS QUEEN 1977

183 EVERYBODY (BACKSTREET'S BACK) BACKSTREET BOYS 1997

184 SET YOU FREE N-TRANCE 1994

185 MAN I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN SHANIA TWAIN 1997

186 WHAT IS LOVE HADDAWAY 1993

187 CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE QUEEN 1979

188 IT WAS A GOOD DAY ICE CUBE 1992

189 BARBIE GIRL AQUA 1997

190 MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU STARDUST 1998

191 SEND ME ON MY WAY RUSTED ROOT 1995

192 YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE PHIL COLLINS 1982

193 THE WHOLE OF THE MOON WATERBOYS 1985

194 SCAR TISSUE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1999

195 WICKED GAME CHRIS ISAAK 1989

196 PARKLIFE BLUR 1994

197 LINGER CRANBERRIES 1993

198 LET'S DANCE DAVID BOWIE 1983

199 SHOW ME LOVE ROBIN S 1990

200 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 1970

201 IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW CELINE DION 1996

202 HOOKED ON A FEELING BLUE SWEDE 1974

203 COME AND GET YOUR LOVE REDBONE 1973

204 LIKE A PRAYER MADONNA 1989

205 MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS NOTORIOUS BIG 1997

206 (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU BRYAN ADAMS 1991

207 NOVEMBER RAIN GUNS N' ROSES 1991

208 I'LL BE MISSING YOU PUFF DADDY FT FAITH EVANS 1997

209 DON'T LET THE SUN GO DOWN ON ME GEORGE MICHAEL FT ELTON JOHN 1991

210 KILLING IN THE NAME RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 1992

211 DOO WOP (THAT THING) LAURYN HILL 1998

212 MAMBO NO 5 (A LITTLE BIT OF) LOU BEGA 1999

213 RHYTHM IS A DANCER SNAP 1992

214 UNDER THE SEA SAMUEL E WRIGHT 1989

215 DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH MICHAEL JACKSON 1979

216 BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS 1998

217 MY NAME IS EMINEM 1999

218 ROMEO & JULIET DIRE STRAITS 1980

219 MORE THAN A FEELING BOSTON 1976

220 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH BELINDA CARLISLE 1987

221 SAVE TONIGHT EAGLE-EYE CHERRY 1997

222 PARANOID BLACK SABBATH 1970

223 WE BUILT THIS CITY STARSHIP 1985

224 DANGER ZONE KENNY LOGGINS 1986

225 BABA O'RILEY WHO 1971

226 (I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE BILL MEDLEY & JENNIFER WARNES 1987

227 IRONIC ALANIS MORISSETTE 1995

228 PRAISE YOU FATBOY SLIM 1998

229 JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH DEPECHE MODE 1981

230 WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN BLINK 182 1999

231 LIFE ON MARS DAVID BOWIE 1971

232 KISS ME SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER 1997

233 KISS FROM A ROSE SEAL 1994

234 IMAGINE JOHN LENNON 1971

235 NOTHING COMPARES 2 U SINEAD O'CONNOR 1990

236 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN LED ZEPPELIN 1971

237 YOU SPIN ME ROUND (LIKE A RECORD) DEAD OR ALIVE 1984

238 RED LIGHT SPELLS DANGER BILLY OCEAN 1977

239 SMALLTOWN BOY BRONSKI BEAT 1984

240 NOTHING ELSE MATTERS METALLICA 1991

241 THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL MICHAEL JACKSON 1987

242 BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM VENGABOYS 1999

243 BLUE (DA BA DEE) EIFFEL 65 1999

244 GOLDEN BROWN STRANGLERS 1981

245 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF 1977

246 WATERFALL STONE ROSES 1989

247 I'D DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE (BUT I WON'T DO MEAT LOAF 1993

248 OTHERSIDE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1999

249 SHOOK ONES PT 2 MOBB DEEP 1995

250 DON'T STOP FLEETWOOD MAC 1977

251 THE FINAL COUNTDOWN EUROPE 1986

252 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL ABBA 1980

253 IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME CHER 1989

254 BURNING LOVE ELVIS PRESLEY 1972

255 MONEY FOR NOTHING DIRE STRAITS 1985

256 EASY LOVER PHILIP BAILEY & PHIL COLLINS 1984

257 LEARN TO FLY FOO FIGHTERS 1999

258 REGULATE WARREN G & NATE DOGG 1994

259 TRULY MADLY DEEPLY SAVAGE GARDEN 1997

260 RHIANNON FLEETWOOD MAC 1975

261 THE BOYS OF SUMMER DON HENLEY 1984

262 MIAMI WILL SMITH 1997

263 ROXANNE STING & THE POLICE 1978

264 BLACK BETTY RAM JAM 1977

265 BRIMFUL OF ASHA CORNERSHOP 1998

266 YOU'RE SO VAIN CARLY SIMON 1972

267 KEEP ON MOVIN' FIVE 1999

268 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1970

269 EASY COMMODORES 1977

270 LAID JAMES 1993

271 BOYS DON'T CRY CURE 1979

272 DREAMS GABRIELLE 1993

273 WATERFALLS TLC 1994

274 ENJOY THE SILENCE DEPECHE MODE 1990

275 TAKE IT EASY EAGLES 1972

276 HIT 'EM UP 2PAC 1996

277 ROCK THE CASBAH CLASH 1982

278 JUMP AROUND HOUSE OF PAIN 1992

279 JAMMING BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1977

280 DREAM ON AEROSMITH 1973

281 DON'T SPEAK NO DOUBT 1995

282 MY HEART WILL GO ON CELINE DION 1997

283 IT MUST BE LOVE MADNESS 1981

284 VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR BUGGLES 1979

285 IMMIGRANT SONG LED ZEPPELIN 1970

286 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S DEEP BLUE SOMETHING 1995

287 YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND QUEEN 1975

288 SIR DUKE STEVIE WONDER 1976

289 BLACK VELVET ALANNAH MYLES 1989

290 WONDERFUL TONIGHT ERIC CLAPTON 1977

291 ALRIGHT SUPERGRASS 1995

292 STAND BY ME OASIS 1997

293 NO SURPRISES RADIOHEAD 1997

294 I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO BE KING JASON WEAVER 1994

295 I WILL SURVIVE GLORIA GAYNOR 1978

296 CALIFORNIA LOVE 2PAC FT DR DRE 1995

297 I GOT 5 ON IT LUNIZ 1995

298 LAYLA DEREK & THE DOMINOS 1971

299 SIT DOWN JAMES 1989

300 MARIA MARIA SANTANA FT THE PRODUCT G&B 1999

 

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Christmas songs are clearly excluded as well as Three Lions I assume which would surely be on the list otherwise

Lots of great and iconic tracks of course.

 

I'm surprised at 'You Make My Dreams' by Hall and Oates being top 50, 'Maneater' and 'I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)' are more well known in the UK I thought....also for James, 'Laid' being higher than 'Sit Down'!

Edited by TheSnake

Who is listening to *

Miami & Boom Boom Boom , very surprised they feature.

I dont hate them.

 

Lots of people that have passed away (before their time).

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Who is listening to *

Miami & Boom Boom Boom , very surprised they feature.

I dont hate them.

 

Lots of people that have passed away (before their time).

 

Not sure about Miami, or why that would be there above other Will Smith songs, but the Vengaboys song has gone viral many times over in the last few years.

 

The appearance of All Star, Scar Tissue and Learn To Fly in the predecessor to this list is what inspired me to include them on BuzzJack Presents...1999 (all next to each other, no less), as they have clearly built up popularity over time that wasn't evident upon release. Great to see the likes of Set You Free and Kiss Me have endured. I think at the time I wouldn't have expected Gala's Freed From Desire to become a legendary kind of hit, but I know it's become a football anthem over time.

Why to exclude Christmas songs? There aren't that many anyway as they collect remarkable streams only for 6-7 weeks per year.

 

It was played out on Greatest Hits Radio over the Easter Weekend so it made sense to exclude Christmas songs and Three Lions (although given that only gets streamed on matchdays I'm not convinced it'd be in the Top 300).

 

Surely Christmas songs generally only being played for one month of the year and others being played for 12 months would mean not many would need to be excluded anyway.

 

 

Surely Christmas songs generally only being played for one month of the year and others being played for 12 months would mean not many would need to be excluded anyway.

 

The numbers some of them do in those 7 weeks are ENORMOUS and outdo many of the trickle streams of non

Christmas songs throughout the year. However Christmas streams tend to be focused on a narrower range of product so I agree they wouldn’t completely dominate the list. This from a year back gave an idea:

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=258716

Yes, I think it would be completely fine to acknowlegde songs like Last Christmas and FONY on rankings like these. They wouldn't still be current #1s considering the highest charting pre-2000 track Dreams by Fleetwood Mac did 128k on a Sunday. If it did those numbers all year long, it'd collect 46 million streams per year.

Edited by Sour Candy

Mariah & Wham! would almost certainly be #1 and #2 on this list. Wham! was the 18th biggest song of last year iirc

Based on what I’ve linked above in November 2022 Mariah was 21st overall, Oasis were 28th and Wham! 31st. So the order for pre 00 tracks would have been 1 Mariah 2 Oasis 3 Wham!

 

I expect Wham! will have been moving up the popularity ranks fairly swiftly since. But also note there have been 2 Christmases since then - if you do a chart in November the Christmas songs will be lower than if you do it in January.

Edited by JulianT

What I didn't initially understand about this particular streams-based retrospective rundown was why it excluded the 2000s and 2010s, and also for that matter (arguably more outlandishly) the 1960s or even 1950s. But then the penny dropped that it was compiled entirely for Greatest Hits Radio who only play music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, so clearly it was a very specialised list which they insisted stuck to their playlisting criteria.

 

I still think Christmas or other seasonal/speciality songs should've been included though, even for a chart that's only narrowed to a particular thirty-year period of the past. Whatever the arguments as to how many would've charted inside this Top 300 and how high, one must suspect that at least a few would've amassed sufficient online listens in the streaming era (so presumably if OCC compiled this we're talking just over the last ten years to January 2014 when streaming data begins to officially be counted, albeit we know they compiled streaming data for over 18 months prior to that as they used to publish a weekly Top 40 streaming chart) to have registered here and there across the chart. Provided they weren't maxing-out the Top 10 or 20, and there weren't too many positions taken up with tunes that would sound bizarre and unwelcome if played across a regular Easter weekend in March, surely they could just have skipped over them, i.e. announce the song and the position it occupied, then explaining for obvious reasons it doesn't feel appropriate to play it now, and move on to the next entry which carries more universal appeal to their audience. Instead, they broadcast a chart that might've had some use and relevance as a gauge of what is enduringly popular from the last three decades of the 20th century via streaming, but as-is, was subject to arbitrary exclusions of certain types of song, and so carries far less gravitas, at least to the purist.

 

Then again, as it's OCC, we should know by now that of course any chart they're allowing to be broadcast will've been subject to manipulation!!

I think there'd have been too many Christmas songs in there and too high up. Much more interesting keeping them out, to see which songs are popular all year round.

 

I wouldn't have expected the likes of Iris and Don't Stop Believing (which were big hits at the peak of the download era) to still be doing so well on streams

 

Toto's Africa is always a bit of a confusing one for me. Why so popular now?

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I understand why they excluded the Christmas songs especially for the original broadcast but I do wish they would publish a version that included them as well, or at the very least made some explicit mention in the article that they are excluded rather than just silently leaving them out.

 

Toto's Africa is always a bit of a confusing one for me. Why so popular now?

 

Because people have taste :magic:

 

(I don't know if there's any specific reason why or if it's just 'because the Internet' but it's become a bit of a meme song, I remember it was a weirdly big deal when Weezer covered it months after a request from a random Twitter user).

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