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Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ has been named the as the Biggest Song Of All Time
NME(New Musical Express) ^ | 3/22/24 | Anagricel Duran

Posted on 02/05/2025 3:22:38 PM PST by DallasBiff

Journey‘s hit track ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ has been named the biggest song of all time by Forbes and has become 18x platinum.

According to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ is now an 18-times-platinum-certified single, meaning that the track has moved more than 18 million units between pure sales and other forms of consumption like streaming in the US alone.

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To: DallasBiff

“seek and destroy” by metallica appears appropriate for today’s changing political environment...


21 posted on 02/05/2025 3:33:09 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁 )
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To: DallasBiff

Clearly, whoever voted for this has never heard the song “Big Balls” by AC/DC


22 posted on 02/05/2025 3:33:12 PM PST by suasponte137
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To: Psalm 73
No way that song (or any song for that matter), is bigger than “These Boots are Made for Walkin’” by Nancy Sinatra.

smile
23 posted on 02/05/2025 3:34:02 PM PST by PhillyPhreeper
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To: Sirius Lee

Is this the old loft
With the paint peelin’ off it
By the chinese police where the dogs roll by?

Is this where they keep
The philostophers now,
With the rugs & the dust,
Where the books go to die?

Favorite part.


24 posted on 02/05/2025 3:34:04 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff
This really is the greatest song of all time.

Never get tired of hearing it after these 40+ years (it originally was released on the "Escape" album by Journey in 1981).

I remember when I first heard it, I was in the Marine Corps, stationed at 29 Palms, CA and running my laundry in the Quonset hut barracks. It was about 120 degrees outside and at least 90 degrees inside, with the swamp coolers going full force. The Police were also big at that time and we were listening to their Zenyatta Mondatta album. Then somebody threw in that Journey cassette and pretty much every song on that album was magic. But "Don't Stop Believing", I knew that was going to be one of the greatest songs ever.

25 posted on 02/05/2025 3:34:30 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: suasponte137

Obviously.


26 posted on 02/05/2025 3:34:57 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: Bratch
Wasn't that song the anthem for one of Bill Clinton's campaigns?

Wasn’t that “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” by Fleetwood Mac? I could be remembering wrong, though.

27 posted on 02/05/2025 3:35:11 PM PST by Allegra (It’s MAGA time! )
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To: DallasBiff

One word: Sopranos

“You know, Tony, it’s a multiple-choice thing with you. ‘Cause I can’t tell if you’re old-fashioned, you’re paranoid, or just a f—king a—hole.” —Carmela Soprano


28 posted on 02/05/2025 3:35:22 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: DallasBiff

“Biggest”?

Vague metric, sophomoric ear-candy typical of the era.


29 posted on 02/05/2025 3:35:43 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: basalt

..”born and raised in South Detroit”...one little problem, no such place as South Detroit.


30 posted on 02/05/2025 3:35:45 PM PST by basalt (he "legacy")
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To: heavy metal

For whom the bell tolls a close 2nd.


31 posted on 02/05/2025 3:35:55 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

Thanks to The Sopranos.


32 posted on 02/05/2025 3:36:14 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Why does it hurt when I pee by Frank Zappa is better.


Bobby Brown Goes Down


33 posted on 02/05/2025 3:36:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

LOL!


34 posted on 02/05/2025 3:36:46 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: basalt

Nope, it’s called down River.


35 posted on 02/05/2025 3:37:00 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

It went wrong for me when the Clinton’s appropriated it.


36 posted on 02/05/2025 3:37:44 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Col Frank Slade

Based on what other TV shows have previously paid for music licensing, Sopranos producers likely paid anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000 for the right to use the song, netting a nice pay day for Sony BMG Music.


37 posted on 02/05/2025 3:38:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Allegra

😉👍


38 posted on 02/05/2025 3:38:42 PM PST by Bratch
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To: poinq

Hey Jude by The Beatles


39 posted on 02/05/2025 3:38:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bratch
Wasn't that song the anthem for one of Bill Clinton's campaigns? I remember hearing it performed by the cast of "Glee". It seemed they sang it every other month

No That was the Fleetwood Mac song, "Don't Stop". "

40 posted on 02/05/2025 3:39:09 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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