2. ONEREPUBLIC - Counting Stars: 170.160 (+ 2.755)
16. LORDE - Team: 68.529 (+ 1.139)
THE FINAL, CHECKPOINT 1
Welcome to the first checkpoint of the final!
Each checkpoint in this final, located in an edited post of mine, will have a challenge for you to complete. You may send me each challenge as you complete it, or all of the challenges at once after you have completed them all; it's totally up to you. Of course, whoever has completed all challenges successfully will win the final, as well as season 1 of Persistence.
Each checkpoint will also contain directions to get to the next checkpoint. You'll need these once you've finished the challenge at each checkpoint (and you can bounce around checkpoints if you wish. I don't want one competitor getting stuck on one challenge and making this a lopsided final).
Good luck, and have fun!
FILL IN THE BLANKS
The following are four excerpts from 2015 songs.
The first three are Hot 100 top 10 hits, while song 4 peaked between #90 and #100.
Using the clues provided, fill in all of the blanks.
PM ME WITH EACH COMPLETE EXCERPT, AS WELL AS THE TITLE AND ARTIST OF EACH SONG!
SONG 1
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Line 1, word 2: First track on Drake's February release (plural)
Line 1, word 4: The past tense of a word that rhymes with "well"
Line 2, word 4: the ____ Bowl occurred in the 1930s
Line 2, word 6: same as line 2, word 3
Line 2, word 7: Au
Line 3, word 1: derrière homophone
Line 3, word 4: to recall
Line 4, word 1: same as line 3, word 4
Line 4, word 2: starts with an "m"
SONG 2
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____ ___ ____ __ ___ ______, ____ ___ ______ __ ___ ______
Line 1, word 4: one of the four seasons
Line 1, words 8 and 9: an American city
Line 2, word 3: one of the words in the title of
this article
Line 2, word 6: a time of year when word 3 is uncommon
Line 2, word 7: The famous hook of
Irreplaceable
Line 2, word 9:
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight, not a footprint to be seen...
SONG 3
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Line 1, word 1: the addressee of the song
Line 1, word 2: same as line 1, word 5
Line 1, word 3: one of the albums of the person that this song just might be about
Line 2, word 4: the UN seeks to promote it
Line 2, word 5: same as line 2, word 2
Line 2, word 8: Reese's ______
SONG 4
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Line 1, word 3: Second word of the title of a 2014 Chris Brown and Rick Ross collaboration
Line 1, word 4: same as line 1, word 2
Line 2, word 1: same as line 1, word 1
Line 2, word 3: ____ matter is not well understood at the moment
Line 2, word 5: can function as a noun or a verb; often used in charity campaigns
Line 2, word 6: not the same as line 2, word 4
Line 2, word 7: the opposite of heavy
Directions to Checkpoint 2:
Remember, http://atrl.net/?p=xxxxxxxx
First two digits: Hot 100 peak of
Love Myself
Third and fourth digits: The high temperature in Boston on July 26, 2015 (in degrees F)
Fifth digit: The number of times I have been banned from ATRL
Sixth digit: When you divide any number by this number, the result is undefined.
Last two digits: (Population of Wayland, MA - 994) / 1,000
Multi-format mega smash 
