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Moviestar (Harpo song), the Glossary

"Moviestar" (also released as "Movie Star") is a song written and recorded by Swedish singer-songwriter Harpo.^[1]

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A major

A major (or the key of A) is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, sharp, D, E, sharp, and sharp.

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A-list

An A-list actor is a major movie star, or one of the most bankable actors in a film industry.

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A-side and B-side

The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.

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ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Aftonbladet

(lit. "The evening paper") is a Swedish daily tabloid newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Agnetha Fältskog

Åse Agneta Fältskog (born 5 April 1950), known as Agnetha Fältskog and Anna Fältskog, is a Swedish singer, songwriter and a member of the pop group ABBA.

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Albert Bonniers Förlag

Albert Bonniers Förlag is a publishing company based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad (born 15 November 1945), also known simply as Frida, is a Swedish singer who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Ö3 Austria Top 40

Ö3 Austria Top 40 is the official Austrian singles chart, as well as the radio show which presents it, aired Tuesdays on Hitradio Ö3.

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Göran Bror Benny Andersson (born 16 December 1946) is a Swedish musician, composer and producer best known as a member of the pop group ABBA and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia! For the 2008 film version of ''Mamma Mia!'' and its 2018 sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, he worked also as an executive producer.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Blue Swede

Blue Swede (Blåblus) were a Swedish rock band fronted by Björn Skifs which was active between the years 1973–1979.

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Continental Europe

Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium.

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Demo (music)

A demo (shortened from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs typically recorded for limited circulation or for reference use, rather than for general public release.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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DJM Records

DJM Records (also known as Dick James Music) was a British independent record label, set up in the late 1960s by British music publisher Dick James.

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DR (broadcaster)

DR, officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company.

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Drama school

A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university, or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School) that specializes in the pre-professional training in drama and theatre arts, such as acting, design and technical theatre, arts administration, and related subjects.

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Dutch Single Top 100

The Dutch Single Top 100 or Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales, legal downloads and since July 2013 streaming and composed by Dutch Charts.

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Dutch Top 40

The Dutch Top 40 (Nederlandse Top 40) is a weekly music chart compiled by Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI Records

EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a British multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Expressen

(The Express) is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden.

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Fan mail

Fan mail is mail sent to a public figure, especially a celebrity, by their admirers or "fans".

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Geographical distribution of German speakers

This article details the geographical distribution of speakers of the German language, regardless of the legislative status within the countries where it is spoken.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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GfK Entertainment charts

The GfK Entertainment charts are the official charts for music, home video, and video games in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment (formerly Media Control and Media Control GfK International), a subsidiary of GfK, on behalf of.

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Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s and was performed by male musicians who wore flamboyant and feminine clothing, makeup, and hairstyles, particularly platform shoes and glitter, and female musicians who wore masculine clothing.

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Harpo (singer)

Jan Torsten Svensson, known professionally as Harpo (born 5 April 1950), is a Swedish pop singer.

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Hitchhiking

Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle.

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Hooked on a Feeling

"Hooked on a Feeling" is a 1968 pop song, written by Mark James and originally performed by B. J. Thomas.

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Horse breeding

Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed.

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Imgur

Imgur (stylized as imgur) is an American online image sharing and image hosting service with a focus on social gossip that was founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009.

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Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter.

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James Bond (literary character)

Commander James Bond is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953.

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James Dean

James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years.

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Jan Lindblad

Jan Victor Armas Lindblad (19 July 1932 – 5 April 1987) was a Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer, film maker, and whistling artist who imitated animals.

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Johanneshov

Johanneshov is a district in Stockholm located at the intersection of national road 73 and national road 75 in the borough of Enskede-Årsta-Vantör, southern Stockholm, Sweden.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Kjell Öhman

Kjell Ingemar Öhman (3 September 1943 – 5 November 2015) was a notable Swedish jazz musician.

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Lee Kings

The Lee Kings was a pop group from Sweden, established in 1964 as Lenne & The Lee Kings, and scoring several hits on the Tio i Topp chart.

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List of number-one singles on Tio i Topp

Tio i Topp was a radio show that first broadcast in 1961 and was the first official Swedish music chart.

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Lyons Maid

Lyons Maid is a brand of ice-creams and ice-lollies created in 1925 as a spin-off from the J. Lyons and Co. retail organisation.

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Mail carrier

A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses.

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Middle name

In various cultures, a middle name is a portion of a personal name that is written between a person's given name and surname.

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Modulation (music)

In music, modulation is the change from one tonality (tonic, or tonal center) to another.

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Motorcycle Mama

"Motorcycle Mama" is a song written by John Wyker and performed by Sailcat.

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Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Norrmalm

Norrmalm is a city district in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Oceania

Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.

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Official Finnish Charts

The Official Finnish Charts (Suomen virallinen lista; Finlands officiella lista) are national record charts in Finland compiled and published by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland.

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Oh Shenandoah

"Oh Shenandoah" (also called "Shenandoah", "Across the Wide Missouri", "Rolling River", "Oh, My Rolling River", "World of Misery") is a traditional folk song, sung in the Americas, of uncertain origin, dating to the early 19th century.

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Ola Magnell

Nils Olaus Lennart Karl Magnell (20 January 1946 – 6 February 2020) was a Swedish pop-rock singer and guitarist.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.

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Per-Erik Hallin

Per Erik Hallin (born 7 January 1950) is a Swedish keyboard player, singer and songwriter.

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Personal pronoun

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).

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Polar Music

Polar Music is a Swedish record company founded in 1963 by Stig Anderson and his friend Bengt Bernhag.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Record Mirror

Record Mirror was a British weekly music newspaper published between 1954 and 1991, aimed at pop fans and record collectors.

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Recording studio

A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.

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Refrain

A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry — the "chorus" of a song.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter.

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Royalty payment

A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset.

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Johan Rutger Gunnarsson (12 February 1946 – 30 April 2015) was a Swedish musician, bass guitarist, guitarist, arranger and producer.

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Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song)

"Sailing" is a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart. Moviestar (Harpo song) and Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song) are 1975 singles.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a subregion of Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples.

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Schlager music

Schlager ("hit(s)") is a style of European popular music and radio format generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics.

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Sense of smell

The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.

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Skärmarbrink metro station

Skärmarbrink metro station is on the line 17 and 18 of the Stockholm metro, located in Skärmarbrink, Johanneshov, Söderort.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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St Ives, New South Wales

St Ives is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia 18 kilometres north of the Sydney Central Business District in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council.

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Steel guitar

A steel guitar (kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings.

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Steve McQueen

Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor and racing driver.

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Stig Anderson

Stig Erik Leopold "Stikkan" Anderson (25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997) was a Swedish music manager, lyricist and music publisher.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Svenska Dagbladet

("The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Svensktoppen

Svensktoppen is a weekly record chart airing on Sveriges Radio.

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Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB ("Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster.

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Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT, is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament).

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Sverigetopplistan

Sverigetopplistan (lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).

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SVT Play

SVT Play is the brand used for the video on demand service offered by Sveriges Television, more specifically to the streaming services offered on the SVT website, svt.se, and its counterpart for mobile phones.

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) is Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Telephone directory

A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Theatrical troupe

Theatrical troupe (French: troupe), sometimes referred to as an acting company, is a group of theatrical performers working together.

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Time signature

A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).

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Tina Charles (singer)

Tina Charles (born Tina Hoskins; 10 March 1954) is an English singer who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid to late 1970s.

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Tio i Topp

Tio i Topp (English: Ten At The Top) was a Swedish record chart and radio program broadcast by Sveriges Radio P3 between the years of 1961 and 1974.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is a musical instrument in the percussion family, classified as an idiophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moviestar_(Harpo_song)

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