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Tournament: Create a Label 6: Done, But Not Forgotten. #RIP
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Originally posted by CrazyCat
Brit is the biggest, and second is azealia so let's not... I would have been bigger if I promoted last week tho..
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Azealia is number one, and Brit is somewhere behing her. Let's not.

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Originally posted by Sheezus
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You should be the last person quoting me. What would you know about quality and articles of good length? Scroll up or down to exit. You're welcome and enjoy your departure. Bless you.

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Originally posted by iHype.
Okay I would like to know why everyone thinks making 1 good article with nice pictures means #1 for a whole week.
I've yet to see someone talk about his articles as a whole.
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His articles were good, not everyone of us has time to write 900+ words 25 articles, it's crazy. You yourself Eric didn't write articles as long as that, as far as I can remember. No shade, but it's truly crazy to write that much.
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Originally posted by Gasp
k like I know I got both #1's but the sales this week are really low compared to other weeks..
below 400k first week for my album with two #1 songs, 1 platinum, and another top 5 the week before + going on tour and promoting this week?
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waiting for an answer on this also
EPs outsold me & Luke & HausOfCarlos this week, the absolute snub on album sales... 
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Originally posted by CrazyCat
His articles were good, not everyone of us has time to write 900+ 25 articles, it's crazy,.
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Okay, but someone writing 1 paragraph, and someone writing 4 paragraphs.
Both do 25 articles.
Who deserves #1? The one with 1 paragraph because he managed to make a cute booklet? Like...
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Originally posted by tigerlily13
You should be the last person quoting me. What would you know about quality and articles of good length? Scroll up or down to exit. You're welcome and enjoy your departure. Bless you.

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Lemme just go and count Mariah's album sales while the mess goes on  ......
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Originally posted by Gasp
Check the sales baby gurl
I have two #1's this season (more than anyone this season so far)
I have a platinum single & I have another top 5 buzz single.
Both Rih & Brit have outsold Zendaya so this gif would've made more sense if Taylor posted it

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The fact that you need to bring up Zendaya to this is just making you look desperate. We're obviously not discussing who outsould Zendaya, we're discussing who is number one in this game.
iHype, sister, when is the CAL Magazine coming? I want to see overall charts.

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Originally posted by CrazyCat
You yourself Eric didn't write articles as long as that, as far as I can remember. No shade, but it's truly crazy to write that much.
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Actually nobody wrote articles this long before this season. I didn't even encourage this.
All I said was length can help you over others with the same amount of articles, and now everybody is writing Hunger Game novels. Not my fault.

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Originally posted by Eglė
The fact that you need to bring up Zendaya to this is just making you look desperate. We're obviously not discussing who outsould Zendaya, we're discussing who is number one in this game.
iHype, sister, when is the CAL Magazine coming? I want to see overall charts.

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You quoted Rih & Brit being two of the bigger artists this season and used a shady gif gurl. The first overall charts had Rihanna at #1 and I've been doing well this season too so yes we are two of the bigger artists this season collabing so your shady gif made no sense.

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A bitch was fine with being number two. A comment that I shouldn't be so close is what really ignited the fire. I'll be damned if a bitch is going to try to discredit me. I mean I almost outsold a collaboration between two artists who did all twenty five articles yet yall tryna come for me for COLLABING? Who is the collab artist now cause if it were anyone else facing me this week you've been outsold.
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Originally posted by iHype.
Okay, but someone writing 1 paragraph, and someone writing 4 paragraphs.
Both do 25 articles.
Who deserves #1? The one with 1 paragraph because he managed to make a cute booklet? Like...
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But those graphics take a long time believe me, and + it's way more interesting to see some graphics than a dry text, gives more life to article.
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Originally posted by iHype.
Okay, but someone writing 1 paragraph, and someone writing 4 paragraphs.
Both do 25 articles.
Who deserves #1? The one with 1 paragraph because he managed to make a cute booklet? Like...
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The show starts with all of the light closed, all you can hear is the large crowd screaming, this stays for approximately about six seconds, and then we hear a piano playing in the distance, the stadium slightly glows from a dark purple shadow, the light slowly becomes brighter as the piano melody keeps playing, we hear agile strings playing with the piano, we come to realize that this song is Sexercise. White lights appear as the song builds up and suddenly the stadium blasts into a white flash and fireworks explode from the stadium’s corners and we finally see Kylie wearing a glamorous dress (above picture) holding a pic and doing a very fierce move while singing, “flexin', we're uptight, keep on moving too nice, move it for me tonight” and as she says “Let me see you sexercize” she changes her pose crunching down and holding her hands to the sky. She stands up again and walks fiercely and slowly while singing “it's not just your body, gotta keep it up with me, my mind is seven sea” and as she says “let me see you sexercize” the stage starts moving around and starts spinning. Another layer under the stage starts expanding when Kylie singing “I wanna see you beat all your best times, and if you're lucky I'mma teach you let's just turn you blind” and swiss balls rise from under the stage as the chorus starts and the dancers do similar choreography as the music video throughout the first chorus. A large backdrop around the circle stage flashes at the second verse and it shows sexy scenes of Kylie doing sensual moves and the camera focuses on her skin at one scene and shows her amazing body at the other scene. Kylie walks around the stage and the second layer of the stage starts spinning while the main stage stays at the same place. Both stages move at the second chorus and the backdrop changes into different colors which all add to a very unusual experience for the audience who are watching the show. At the end of the song, Kylie lays down the floor and poses to the camera above her. Four-on-the-floor drum pattern start and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head kicks off and the fun part of the show start, two mascots get on the stage and dance with Kylie, butt-hitting and high-fiving, salsa and disco dancing. The backdrop on this part of the show display bright colors and colorful scenery. “I just can’t get you out of my head” Kylie sing while smiling, cheerleaders hop on the stage too and have fun with Kylie, “Stay forever, and ever, and ever” the song gets slowed down and everyone on the stage crunches and the lights go out. “I like it..” a red light appear and disappears. Nu-Di-Ty starts and the backdrops becomes black and white and the lights mainly consist of white and red glares. We only see Kylie and her dress glows red and she dances provocatively and sexually, “Let the steam rise in the spotlight” literally steam rises from the stage and the atmosphere of this part of the song is very dark. Strip poles ascend from the stage and pole dances dance on the poles while Kylie walks down to the longest pole and dances sexually. When the song ends we see Kylie slowly ripping off her dress and shows a sexy leotard, laughs and “Skirt” starts. The crowd cheers “Down, down, down” repeatedly along the song and the stage flashes white lights frequently with the song til the song blows to a dub step craze and the lights flicker and Kylie’s flipping her hair. The crowd goes crazy and then the song builds up to the other chorus and Kylie’s moaning which got the audience very excited. Minogue sang her heart out at the chorus “Tonight I’m yours” and her backup dancers dance behind her. When the song ends and Timebomb starts, Kylie moves into a box that ascended from the stage, she gets into the box and quickly leaves with new clothing, the magic trick shocked the critics because of how Kylie’s second outfit showed boots, critics assumed Kylie wore a skin identical color pants in the first outfit so then she would take them off and reveal the new outfit, but the magic trick wasn’t revealed which left the people wondering. Kylie sings the chorus and the audience sing a long the “Woop!” that is sung in the chorus, the backdrop show a heart shaped time bomb beating harder till the song ends. Circles start and the audience scream, Minogue sings the verses live and when the beat drop started the audience went crazy, jumping on their feet, Minogue is seen to be dancing sexually and whipping her hair along the beat. When the song ends, all the lights close and we can only see the audience’s white glow sticks, Burn starts and a spot light hits the stage showing Kylie sitting on a chair singing the verses, when we get to the chorus the lights get a little brighter and we see a coral behind Kylie, the stage is rising as the chorus goes and all the lights stop when the chorus finishes with no, we hear the snare drums and suddenly a flash of lights at the beat drop, we see the stage filled with people just like a concert and the stage gets darker again, the backdrop is amazingly beautiful here, your eyes won’t believe what you’ll see, the audience is moving the glow sticks along with the beautiful melody at the drop, when the beat drop ends we hear the same melody and Kylie sings the chorus softly and the performance ends.
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Keep on dancing till the world ends,” a glimpse of what I heard when a person walked on by listening to a uptempo pop song reminded me of Kylie Minogue. It’s July 5th, 12pm, and I am sitting down waiting for Kylie Minogue to arrive. I just remembered, “Oh my god! I am meeting Kylie Minogue,” I thought to myself. Kylie wanted to do this in an intimate room without anybody except me there, “I’m more open,” she said to my few days ago on the phone. I am walking through this fancy hotel room looking through things, that’s when I heard the bell ring. “Hello! good morning” Minogue’s soft sweet voice spoke.
Minogue is 46, neat, sparkly and glamorous. She was wearing a black thin coat, dark blue jeans, black high heals and sunglasses covering her eyes. Walking in the hotel room, “This room is so nice!” she told me. As she was putting her sunglasses on the table, I hear Apple’s ‘Presto’ ringtone that freaked me out a little bit because the room was quite, “Sorry that’s my phone, I have to take this.” she voiced. I went to the small modern kitchen and poured some wine in two glasses as Minogue was talking on the phone standing behind the bathroom. Two minutes later we sat down and looked at each other, I was nervous. “Did you try the breakfast here?” she said to me. “No, I checked in one hour ago.”
I pulled out two papers full of list of questions from my backpack I wanted her so badly to answer, she sighted her Abby Road Sessions CD, “Did you like that?” she asked, “Like what?” I curiously questioned her, “My CD” she responds, “Oh, yes! I actually listened to at on the way here, it’s amazing.” I said, “Thank you!” she replied to me.“Since we’re talking about your acoustic album, I have a question relating to that.” I said, “Fire away!” she told me. “Are you going to do another acoustic or stripped down album?” I asked excitedly, “You never know, I had so much fun making the abby road sessions specially because I was at a spiritual state recording it. The music really moved me and it was amazing how I saw my songs turned into ballads, it was really beautiful and I would want to do it again.” she answered in detail. “And you also have Flower in it which was an unreleased song your fans loved and you decided to include it in the album, do you have any unreleased songs you want to release?” I questioned her, “Well, not really. Everything I have released so far I have been very happy with, My label is so supportive of me and would pursue anything I believe in considering my career.” she said.
“with this record, you said you worked with a lot of different producers, can you explain?” I asked her politely, “I’ve worked with really amazing people for this album, I felt like we were a family honestly. The album’s vision is really dark and really different from anything I’ve done so far, I’m kind of scared of how the people, especially my fans, will respond to it because it’s so different but it’s still me!” she explained, “But you said you’re still confident with it, how so?” I said, “because beside the fact that it’s different, I think it’s the best work I’ve done so far, the energy I get from listening to some of the tracks are empowering yet dark visually. It’s a really special album and it gets your attention, defiantly.” she briefly clarified.
“Your album is called ‘Distant Days,’ that’s a beautiful name, why did you describe your thirteenth studio album with that title?” I asked her, “Thank you! It’s actually the title of the first track from the album, when you listen to the word ‘Distant Days’ you probably would think that the song will be about a distant relationship, it’s not.” Kylie laughs, “It’s about revenge actually, it’s a really dark song, the chorus goes like ‘now that you’re ten feet underground, I’m enjoying these distant days’” she said as my eyes get wide.
I ask her about what how she feels towards the record now that she finished it, she answered “I’m really proud, when you finish the album all the fun things start, the music videos, promotion and releasing the album it self. We finished shooting the album photo shoot few days ago and it showed a new side of me, it’s almost like an alter ego. It was shot by Mert and Marcus who both have done an amazing job, and their work are known for unusual things you see in the magazines.”
Kylie’s known for reinventing herself, so when I heard that comment I was really excited because I, myself, am I huge fan of her work and cannot wait to see this new direction she’s taking. She recently launched new collection of swimwear clothing with Versace and so far it has been selling like hot cakes, she also announced the release of her new fragrance ‘Free’ which she worked with Elizabeth Arden and the description of it was simply wonderful, ’t’s notes are kiwi, white chocolate, peach, roses and vanilla. It is sweet smelling and shows the promised peach and vanilla with a very light layer of oranges.’
Now that I covered almost everything about the new album, I had to ask about her future. “Where do you see yourself in twenty years?” I ask, “Dead,” she humorously joked as I laughed, her face turned serious and she spoke, “I really don’t know, probably still making music for my fans.”
I asked about her future plans this year and she told me that she might be releasing a new book, how exciting!
Minogue has outdone every other pop star this year, she really showed us how hard she works and the year hasn’t even ended.
Kylie picks up her glass of wine and drinks, “This is wonderful!” she cries, “It’s Miazma” I reply, “You have got to tell me where you got these from so I can buy them” she said, “Should I text your assistant?” I said, “No, send it right away to me” she answered me as I hold my phone to text her the address. At that moment I realized how normal Kylie is, she even goes out and gets her own wine!
as I put my iPhone 4S on the table, I sprout “I must say, your song ‘In Your Eyes’ is my favorite” my fan-girling finally begins, “Thank you dear!” she politely said.
Now, we have got to talk about that little incident of hers everybody witnessed, “How did you deal with it?” I said, “As anyone would, I guess.” she responds, “What did you do after you got off the red carpet?” I asked, “I was utterly shocked, I asked myself ‘Did that really happen?’ It was crazy and scary, my assistant kept saying that it’s okay and I kept hearing the photographers chant my name so loud, it was one of those moments where you mind gets crowded by your thoughts and what’s actually happening” she replies.
Finally, I tell her the interview is done and she smiled back at me, “It was nice” her soft voice spoke, “Thank you Kylie for this opportunity” I nervously said, “Your welcome sweetie, don’t forget the wine!” she laughs.
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Midnight, I get a notification on my iPhone, I open my nightlight and as I look into my phone, I gasp.
Here I am, sitting on bench at a reserved park, the view is wonderful, the air is so breathable, waiting for the one and only Kylie Minogue to arrive. I see silhouettes near the entrance, I get myself ready as I see the silhouettes become more clear, and she comes.
“Good morning Ms. Minogue” I say and somehow stutter, “Call me Kylie” she says while smiling, How beautiful she is! That smile is so naturally pretty.
I notice what she’s wearing, so normal and genuine, a pair of classic pure color round toe high heels with ankle-strap, a simple white t-shirt under a embroidered floral round neck lace sweatshirt, and casual vintage embroidered petals skinny cropped jeans, so normal yet so pretty.
I start asking questions, “Your album, wow, I’m obsessed! It’s really wonderful and I wanted to ask you how do you keep that level of creativity?” I ask, “Everything in life inspires me, when you look around you have to notice the detail, I get involved in things and I ask myself questions that lead me to a journey of thoughts that never end, the world is full of things we never see and I send myself to places I’ve never been to, it’s very easy to be inspired, I get inspired because I want to be inspired” she responded, “That’s wonderful, you do that every time?” I asked her again, “Well, no. You have to change it up and find new ways to get inspired, if you do the same thing again and again you will eventually run out of ideas and you have to find something new that lights a fire inside of you, that sets you free and just roam with new ideas and thoughts” she said.
“Your new tour.. we gotta talk about that!” I said, “Sure! well, it’s going to tour the world, I’m gonna make sure I’ll be everywhere this time [laughs], we’re doing Asia this time too and we’re going to go to Dubai which is really exciting. The tour is a visual interpretation of the album, if you liked the album you will love the tour, we’re doing every track on the album with some of my past hits so I’m going to balance between those two factors so I can satisfy my fans” she replied, “You mentioned Dubai, do you think it will be hard to perform there after, you know, the Burn video?” I asked her, “That’s a good question! I have clarified everything about the Burn video, so I think I did my part and hopefully they will accept me, I’m still not sorry about the video, it’s art and they have to realize that. so far we did schedule a show there and no problems were made” she said.
“But what was the idea behind involving the niqab in the video?” I asked, “We wanted to show that Kylie stole the man, you don’t see that in the video but you’re suppose to think about the video really hard to understand everything behind it, I won’t reveal the idea about it, you just have to get see it in your own vision” she said.
“Who did come up with the Burn video concept?” I asked, “It was a group work, I told Joseph Khan, the director, the message behind the video and he showed me different ways of visualizing it and we just worked together to find what’s best for the video and that’s how it was made” she revealed.
“What’s your favorite song from your new album?” I asked, “That’s hard, because I co-wrote every song on the album, but I think the most personal one is Lost in Paradise because I did that song all by myself, I produced it and wrote it so I think it’s the closest to my heart and it’s really personal”
“So, I’m really excited about this one.. Your new movie! Batman vs Superman, wow! talk about that a little please!” I said, “Yes! that was really out of the blue moment [laughs], the last time I’ve done an action movie was Street Fighter which was like, oh my god twenty years ago. I’m really excited to do this again and we’ll see how that goes” she said.
“Are you going to do another movie soon?” I asked, “Yes, I’m looking forward to act in movies, you might see me in a sci-fi movie [laughs]” she said.
“Your perfume is doing really good, it was reported that it grossed more than $30 million dollars the first week, are you planning on releasing a new perfume?” I asked, “For sure, there’s no talk about that going on but I think it will happen” she said.
I asked if she wanted to drink anything and she said she wanted a bottle of water, and so she got one. “Thank you dear” she says in her soft voice, “You welcome!” I said, I thought in my head, “This is so surreal! I’m interviewing Kylie right now, she’s infront of me, right now!” and I told her how big of fan I am, “I was watching you since I was sixteen, you’re incredible, really” and she said, “Aw, stop it!”
It was time for the end of the interview and I gave her a present, I handed her the bag and she said she’s going to open it when she’s back home, “That’s so sweet of you! thank you” she hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
What’s inside the bag? Maybe Kylie will tell you soon.
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After Kylie Minogue released her thirteenth studio album "Distant Days" today, she was featured on a special segment on Good Morning America where she gave an interview and performed two new songs and two of her biggest hits.
Minogue, dressed as elegant as possible, shared new exciting details about her new album and — a new tour? Find out on Good Morning America.
Robin Roberts: You have done a lot of amazing things this year, you did so much that we can’t even list them right now
Kylie Minogue: [laughs]Yeah
Robin Roberts: So, when you look back, what’s your favorite thing that you did?
Kylie Minogue: Well actually, today! When I finally got to share my new chapter, after all the wait and all the anticipation, all the work I’ve done on this album and the promoting, It left me awfully excited, I couldn’t wait for this day where my fans and everyone listens to the album.
Robin Roberts: And it’s out, today, how do you feel about that?
Kylie Minogue: Very good, very great. One of the most exciting moments of my career is when I finally get to release the album, you know when you work on something and you can’t wait to show someone the work you did? It’s like that, It’s because I’m very proud of this record so that’s why the excitement haunted me all these weeks and months.
Robin Roberts: In this record, you get very involved in life and mystery, you have a song called Lonely God, which received heavy criticism from religious societies, how do you respond to that?
Kylie Minogue: Well, art has no limits, and with that being said I would like to clarify that even though I included very controversial subjects on my new record, Lonely God doesn’t talk about, you know, God. The lyrics are very clear, it represents me as a controller of someone else’s life, as if I have their destiny, it’s about a twisted love betrayal story and, where I have all the power.
Robin Roberts: Well, critics have criticized you for imaging yourself as a God and that’s why caused the tension.
Kylie Minogue: I don’t think that matters, the song is empowering females and the way critics responded and focused on such a silly topic is ridiculous.
Robin Roberts: You’re released a new single as well, “Burn,” can you talk about that?
Kylie Minogue: Burn is one of my favorite songs on the record, it’s different, it’s catch and it has an urban feel into it which is something new I’ve always wanted to try. It’s a sad love song but it’s very beautiful, it’s very special and person to me. I always get emotional when I listen to it, I still get butterflies from it.
Robin Roberts: I have heard it and I immediately fell in love with it, I can’t wait for the video.
Kylie Minogue: Thanks!
Robin Roberts: This is very exciting, you’re announcing today and here that’s you’re going on a worldwide tour to promote this new album, can you talk about that?
Kylie Minogue: Touring and performing is one of my passions, the last worldwide tour I did was the Aphrodite World Tour which was a very exciting time in my life, and I’m very excited to get back on stage and tour the world.
Robin Roberts: What can we see from your tour?
Kylie Minogue: Everything and anything [laughs]
Robin Roberts: [laughs] When will you start the tour?
Kylie Minogue: This month.
Minogue also performed a 4-track concert in an intimate theatre for the Good Morning America special.
The lights were off and Circles began, Minogue ascended from the stage and started the show singing Circles wearing a similar dress to the one she wore on the artwork for the single, except the color was Blue. She debuted new choreography for the song for the show.
Later, she sang Can’t Get You Out Of My Head in an acoustic form, sitting down on a chair.
She also perform an acoustic version of her new album-titled track "Distant Days" which was vocally acclaimed by the critics.
She ended the show by debuting a new performance for “Burn,” her new second single, which was the most intense part of the show. She wore a very sexy yet appropriate white mini dress and flew around the stage, the backdrop for this part of the show was insane and perfectly fit for the song, it added a theatrical and magical touch to the performance.
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Yes, maybe they're not as long as the others but maybe that's because I took the 2-week off to produce a whole original album on Logic.
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Well I was criticised for this in CAL 3 (2.0) but I might as well bring Antarctica's Got Talent back 
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Originally posted by CrazyCat
But those graphics take a long time believe me, and + it's way more interesting to see some graphics than a dry text, gives more life to article.
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What would I look like as a host saying,
"Even though you wrote 4x as much, he had a cute booklet so he goes #1 over you".

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Luke's tour commercial alone is better than any long essay.. he actually edited that and made his own instrumental and had the voiceover announcing the tour, that shows that he's talented and should boost him up on the charts more than length.
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One paragraph?
Yes, maybe they're not as long as the others but maybe that's because I took the 2-week off to produce a whole original album on Logic.
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It was an example. I never said you wrote 1 paragraph, or Lily wrote 4 paragraphs. Obviously I don't know the amount by heart, but okay.
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******* soon. These cute and pathetic chart runs are ******* to an end.

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+ CrazyCat never said the good sis Luke should be #1 but he should totally be top 5 and have more album/single sales for sure! His creativity/talent should give a boost over length of articles.
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