Three monstrous radio hits that didn’t come from radio
Carly Rae Jepsen is suddenly a pop star thanks to one insanely catchy song “Call Me Maybe.” Can she transcend the one-hit wonder label, though? CREDIT: AP Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. None of the three of the most memorable pop songs of 2012 originated from traditional radio, once the place where most hits were born. In the old days, record companies pitched songs. Radio stations would test them. The ones that stuck became hits. When MTV came along in the early 1980s, it had… >>
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