The 8 New Billboard Hits of 2015

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 30 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This year, many of us were consuming the same big songs at the same time. On The Gist, music writer Chris Molanphy explains how 2015 continues a modern trend toward a shared pop music monoculture. Chris writes Slate’s Why Is This Song No. 1 column, and for more 2015 analysis you can check out his contribution to The Music Club, 2015. For the Spiel, favorite ideas and sentences of the year. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The big sale is now on at home base with up to 50% of selected home and garden products,
0:07.6	including garden furniture, barbecues, storage and lots more.
0:12.0	Don't miss out!
0:13.3	Head in store or online at homebase.co.uk.
0:16.5	Home base, homes and gardens made easy.
0:20.1	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.7	It's Wednesday, December 30th, 2015 from Slate.
0:30.4	It's the Gestai Mike Pazka.
0:32.4	It is the last gest of 2015.
0:34.8	So I bring you election news.
0:36.7	Not US election news.
0:37.8	Well, little US election news.
0:39.2	George Pataki has dropped out of the race.
0:41.9	He revealed that he was only in the race because he's a cable cord cutter and he had no other
0:46.4	way to watch the undercard debates than to be in them.
0:49.4	So kind of smart.
0:50.4	Anyway, good strategy.
0:52.9	Nothing that George Pataki said is going to be much remembered.
0:56.2	I don't know that this sentence by John Kasich will be remembered.
0:59.0	It's kind of the sentence of the week or the sentence that best exemplifies where we are
1:03.4	in politics on this the penultimate day of 2015 though he said it over the weekend on
1:07.1	this week.
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