Last Week's Sales

2007-05-08

1. Avril Lavigne "Best Damn Thing"

Sales this week: 121,630Cume: 408,509

The best damn thing is those not interested NEVER EVER HAVE TO HEAR IT!

The mainstream is now niche, it's a sideshow. Crossing over? How are you going to reach people who are not paying attention?...

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Branding!???
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Jobs' Thoughts
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Back In Black
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Prince At The Super Bowl
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Radio Last
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Greetings From T.O.
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Today's Track
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Handbags and Gladrags
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The End
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Dandy
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Sales
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Patti Smith
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The Changing Face Of The Business
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Liar
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This Week's Sales
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Taking Chances
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Box Office Report-10/13/06
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Places To Visit
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My Hometown
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Brush With The Blues
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Got A Rise Out Of Me
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Perception
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My New Computer
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Sonos Update
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Like A Rolling Stone
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This Week's Sales
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SpiralFrog
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The Way It Is
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Comfortably Numb
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Jeff Daniels Sings!
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KZLA
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The Album Is Dead
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Today
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Missing The Point
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Everything I'm Cracked Up To Be
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Satellite Radio
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Steely Dan At Red Rocks
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Almost Naked In Whole Foods
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Sold Out
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Lunch With Carter
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Chunky Monkey
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The Rest Of My XM Show
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Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
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Fear Of The Future
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More Chicks
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Cumulative Sales
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Hejira
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The YouTube Deal
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Big Sky Country
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The Promised Land
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Discovered On Sirius
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My XM Playlist
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Musa Dieng Kala
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Beautiful Loser
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What We Learned From Lack
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Satisfaction
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Modern Marketing
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True Companion
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Basis For A Day
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Ticket Prices
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YouTube
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Last Night's Sopranos
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God Only Knows
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The XM Lawsuit
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Tahiti
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Further Coachella Analysis
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Coachella
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Living With War
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Myth Of The Middle
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Gnarls Barkley
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The Skiing
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The Major Label Death March
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Lay Me Down
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Don't
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Love Potion Number 9
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Update
04 05 2006

Ramble On
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On Stage With The Allmans
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The Sopranos
03 21 2006

Arianna Huffington
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Bode Madness
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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
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All These Impermanent Things
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Lisa Lampanelli
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Broadband Penetration
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Jets Overhead
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Entercom
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You Got It
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Singles
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Pink's Stupid Girls
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Licensing
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KT Tunstall
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Tumbleweed Connection
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The Super Bowl
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Pandora
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Breaking An Act
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My Dinner With Al
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Howard 100
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Labels
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2005 Awards
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Record Of The Year
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Macworld
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I'm Listening To
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In My Life
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Home Again
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Kate Bush
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Hits Sales Chart-11/21/05
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Alabama 3 Live At The Astoria
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Sony
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Selling By Track
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The Sony Debacle
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Why The 70s Were Better
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Please Please Me
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Copy Protected CDs
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Hits Sales Chart-10/31/05
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Manifesto
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Old Man
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This Week's Podcast
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Raspberries At HOB
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Somethin' Goin' On
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Manchester, Monday Afternoon
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Manchester, Sunday
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Ferry Cross The Mersey
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Manchester, Saturday Night
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Jeff Fenster At ITC
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Manchester Minute One
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Plen On Jet Blue
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Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well
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N.O.
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That P2P ISP In The U.K.
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Holly Holy
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Sales Don't Equal Good
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Hollywood Bowl
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Sheryl Crow Dell Commercial
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Another Mistake
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Six Feet Under
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Give It Away
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Jack XM
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Cinematic
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Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
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Heritage Deals
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Sonos First Take
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Ah! Leah!
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Floyd
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Mashboxx
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More Copy Protection
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God Says Nothing Back
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You Oughta Know
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******* Insane!
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Pink Floyd
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A Fan
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Since U Been Gone
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MTV Movie Awards
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The Experience
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Andy Lack
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Do What You Want, Be What You Are
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Q Prime
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All I Want
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White Room
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Cream At Royal Albert Hall
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QuickTime 7
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Ryan vs. the Boss
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DualDisc
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Devils & Dust
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More Lawsuits
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Heartache
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I Have The Touch
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Blind Faith
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From Now On
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Ain't Nothing But A House Party
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LimeWire Licensed
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Re-Grokster
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Jack FM
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Sossity
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Tony Wilson In L.A.
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Tale Of Two Philosophies
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Song For Sharon
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The Sound Problem
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Update
03 23 2005

Long, Long, Long
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SPRING IS HERE
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The Atreyu Letter
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Stringer And Sony
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Dear Don Henley
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Ready For Love
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The Grammys
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MusicCares Dinner
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Taxicab Confessions
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Top Tracks
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Queens Of The Stone Age
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I and I
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Zenyatta Mondatta
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For What It's Worth
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Is Mel Sirius?
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Trans-Europe Express
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Paul McCartney
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Passionate Kisses
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Something So Right
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Uncovered On The Radio
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What A Story!
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More MyFi
12 30 2004

All Wood and Stones
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My MyFi, Day Two
12 15 2004

Blue Merle
12 15 2004

Jet Airliner
12 14 2004

Knocking My Socks Off
12 13 2004

Not So Hidden Elton
12 01 2004

Reasons for Waiting
11 24 2004

U2 on SNL
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I'll Be Back
11 22 2004

Mel To Sirius
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My Favorite Who Track
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Sirius
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U2 Leaked
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Brian Wilson At Disney Hall
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The U2 track
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Stone In Love
11 04 2004

Song of the Day
11 02 2004

Mammoth
11 01 2004

There's Something Happening Here
11 01 2004

Alice Cooper at The Greek
10 23 2004

Let's Active
10 22 2004

U2/Apple
10 15 2004

Tracks 10/6/04
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Sweet Baby James
10 12 2004

Eminem Sweepstakes
10 08 2004

The Jupiter Report
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The Battle Of Evermore
10 01 2004

Late For The Sky
09 30 2004

Carl
09 29 2004

Today on XM
09 29 2004

Jeannie's Diary
09 26 2004

Manifesto
09 20 2004

DMB in Golden Gate Park
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Tracks
09 12 2004

Toronto Day Two
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Apple
09 01 2004

The VMAs
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The Tom Dowd Movie
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Credibility
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Cut Across Shorty
08 22 2004

JibJab
08 18 2004

Ben Jelen
08 18 2004

Fountain of Sorrow
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Get Up Jonah
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Power Top Ten
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Recent Downloads
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Count/Doesn't Count
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New Band Rules
07 28 2004

The Festival Express
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Save the Country
07 18 2004

The Corporation
07 15 2004

Lay Me Down
07 13 2004

Outfoxed
07 12 2004

Return to Sin City
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Wasted Time
07 07 2004

Music Business 9/11
07 03 2004

Southern Man
06 15 2004

You Must Have
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Doors Top 16, Part One
05 22 2004

Doors Top 16, Part Two
05 22 2004

Pete Townshend Top 22-1
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Woman of Heart and Mind
04 15 2004

The FBI Warning
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I Love the 80s..?
04 05 2004

Prince at...Dolby?
03 30 2004

Just One Victory
03 25 2004

Led Zeppelin II
03 24 2004

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