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Song of the Day #4,875: ‘Easy On Me’ – Adele

I haven’t done the math, but on a per-album basis, is there a more successful female artist than Adele? She currently sits at #10 on the all-time sales list for women based on the performance of just three albums. Everybody above her has released at least twice as many.

Even more impressive is that she makes those numbers with seemingly very little effort. She just emerges every 4-5 years after being almost completely out of the spotlight, drops a new song, and watches it break every streaming record in the book.

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Song of the Day #3,556: ’30’ – VanSwan

As I near the end of my ’31 Numbered Songs’ series, here’s another artist with a decent amount of talent but almost no digital footprint.

VanSwan’s ’30’ has 17 views on YouTube, and apart from his Apple Music and SoundCloud playlists, I can’t find a trace of him online. I found a lot more references to VanSwann, a St. Louis-based marketing and consulting firm, although it seems to have shut up shop.

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