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The Best-Selling Cassette Tape of 2023 Was an Album Released 9 Years Ago · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: The Guardians of the Galaxy movie franchise makes heavy use
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Speaker 2: of a cassette mixtape in its storyline, and the classic
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Speaker 2: cuts found on each volume serve as the sonic backdrop
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Speaker 2: to the three films, So it's fitting that three of
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Speaker 2: last year's four best selling cassette albums were none other
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Speaker 2: than the Guardians of the Galaxy Awesome Mix soundtracks. What's
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Speaker 2: interesting is that the first film's mix, Guardians of the
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Speaker 2: Galaxy Awesome Mixed Volume one, was still twenty twenty three's
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Speaker 2: best selling cassette overall full nine years after its debut.
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Speaker 2: Volume two finish at number three, while the most recent
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Speaker 2: Volume three was a spot behind at number four. The
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Speaker 2: only outlier isn't too surprising Taylor Swift's nineteen eighty nine
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Speaker 2: Taylor's version was number two. The original Guardian soundtrack in
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine accounted for twenty nine percent of all
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Speaker 2: cassette sales in twenty twenty three, though tapes make up
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Speaker 2: just zero point four to one percent of album sales overall.
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Speaker 2: A lot of math in there that's
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