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Making work makes make sense, LinkedIn knows how. Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart history from Slate magazine. About the hits from Coast to Coast.

I'm Chris Melanthi,

Chart Analysts, pop critic,

and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series.

On our last episode,

we walked through the history of cover songs on the charts

from their beginnings as Tim Pan Alley Commerce with multiple versions of the same song charting virtually simultaneously

to the Beatles and Dylan era of the singer-songwriter who spawned other folks covers

to the rap era and the creation of the sample heavy song

interpolation often a cover in disguise. We are now going to walk through the songs that scored a special chart distinction

thanks to their covers they each top the Hot 100 twice. 18 number one songs, nine pairs of originals and covers. To qualify for this list, both the original

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