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Austra's "Lose It" was the song Most Thumbed Up and Most Added To Playlists over the last year on this here website. Just in case you were wondering.
I was wondering, thank you Pedro.
Now to get CATL & Shred Kelly on that list!
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...Because it's awesome.
Austra put on one of the best live shows I've seen in aaaaages...
This song is certainly a statistical oddity. Austra only has 55,000 plays in total, but this one song has 22,000?? It wasn’t the top rated R3 song on any other list I’ve seen either. On both the Pazz & Jop singles list and Pitchfork’s both Grimes’ Vanessa and Purity Ring’s Ungirthed were ahead of it. In fact Austra’s song didn’t even make Pitchfork’s list, but about 6 others songs currently on R3 did, and yet somehow Austra’s is the top song here? Strange indeed. Consider also that R3 listeners as a whole strongly favour rock singer-songwriters like Plaskett, Mangan, and Samson. Plaskett and Mangan each probably had hundreds of thousands of plays last year, but it’s this one song of Austra’s that’s the most added and thumbed?? Something is clearly not adding up here. It would be interesting to know how much R3 promoted this song relative to other songs. This may well be a case of “popularity” due to a lot of promotion, rather than a true reflection of the popularity of the song.