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Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons performs onstage at the Amnesty International Concert presented by the CBGB Festival at Barclays Center on February 5, 2014 in New York City. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption

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Hearing Devotion In Pop's Details

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American Idol winner Phillip Phillips, whose song, "Gone, Gone, Gone," went to No. 24 on the Billboard Hot 100. Each time it's played in public, the song's writers get a royalty, which is tracked and collected by ASCAP. Bigger hits usually translate into bigger checks. Buda Mendes/Getty Images hide caption

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In The Digital Era, Hit Songs Aren't Everything

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MJG (left) and Eightball (right) in the parking lot of Pressure World Carwash in Memphis in 2004. Shannon Fagan/Getty Images hide caption

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Eightball, MJG And Rap From Memphis 20 Years On

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Pete Seeger was an environmentalist, an activist and the most prominent folk musician of his generation. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption

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Folk Activist Pete Seeger, Icon Of Passion And Ideals, Dies At 94

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Daft Punk won the Grammy for Album of the Year for Random Access Memories and for Record of the Year for "Get Lucky." Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Daft Punk, Lorde And Macklemore Win Major Grammy Awards

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Ebro Darden (left) with (from left to right) Young Guru, Bun B and DJ Premier in June 2012 in New York City. Johnny Nunez/WireImage hide caption

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The Oberheim DMX rose to popularity in the mid-1980s, one of the first commercial drum machines that came close to mimicking real drum sounds. Courtesy of Get On Down Publishing hide caption

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