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Originally posted by RobynYoBank
Call Me Maybe is the biggest song of the year. It appeared on the Hot 100 five months after Somebody That I Used To Know and has still almost run its sales down without the help of a high-profile DJ remix that accounted for 100K+; spent more time at #1; inspired infinitely more videos, dozens of which have surpassed 10 million views; will outrun STIUTK's video views despite a plain-ass video; has the most-quoted lyric of the year; has already generated more web searches and 100x as many news articles; and is still selling nearly 3x as many copies per hour as STIUTK despite the fact that it's dropped below it on airplay.
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"Somebody That I Used To Know" debuted on the Hot 100 on January 21, "Call Me Maybe" entered on March 10. That's roughly two months, not five. As for everything else, it is irrelevant as I mean in the Billboard sense, "Call Me Maybe"
is not the song of the year.