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Billboard Magazine, known for the music charts that it compiles and prints weekly, once again majorly changed the industry standard for the Hot 100 songs chart. This time, the change lies in the inclusion of YouTube views in the streaming component of that chart, which also uses sales and radio airplay to determine with songs are the most successful in a given week.

You may know Ed Sheeran as the velvet voice cooing with Taylor Swift in the song “Everything Has Changed” from her most recent album, Red, but this 22-year-old English singer-songwriter is much more than T-Swift’s backup singer; his debut album features “Give Me Love,” the popular radio hit “The A Team,” and other songs of a similar acoustic style that will keep you satisfied for hours.

It was the year of the new artist: music fans and radio programmers welcomed more first-time hit makers to the mainstream scene in 2012 than in any other year in recent memory. Unsurprisingly, the 55th annual crop of Grammy hopefuls is strongly indicative of the public's "in-with-the-new" attitude.

The Breakfast Club is a celebrated classic, one that recounts a gloomy Saturday in detention shared by “a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” These are the exact words the brain himself writes and leaves behind once their fateful Saturday detention comes to a close.