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A synth-pop love song from a Huntington Beach band that began as a way to woo crushes. "Here (In Your Arms)" climbed from Drive-Thru Records and MySpace to number 14 on the Hot 100 in early 2007, with a summer-camp video in which the campers play pogs.
One guy, one laptop, one unfinished basement in Owatonna, Minnesota — and somehow the #1 song in America. "You would not believe your eyes, if ten million fireflies..." You know the rest. You will always know the rest.
Men Without Hats' 1982 anthem — born when singer Ivan Doroschuk got thrown out of a club for pogo dancing — conquered the 1983 charts with one of the strangest videos of the MTV era. So why is it in a 90s database? Because Bio-Dome (1996) re-seeded it into a generation of cable kids who half-remember it as their own era's song, by a band half of them still misname "Men In Hats."
"Chic-a-cherry cola"—the tongue-twister hook that introduced Savage Garden. Darren Hayes' impossibly fast verse delivery over jittery synth-pop became impossible not to remember.
Miley Cyrus's brother and Mitchel Musso's brother met on the Hannah Montana set, put a song on MySpace, and three years later owned summer 2008 with a neon pop-punk single: number 10 on the Hot 100, double platinum, and a video staged like The Warriors with dance crews in place of gangs.
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Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello made an album by shipping burned CD-Rs between Seattle and Los Angeles, named the project after the method, and never made another. Give Up went platinum on Sub Pop, "Such Great Heights" opened Grey's Anatomy and sold UPS ads, and the real Postal Service sent a cease-and-desist.