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Which Artists Had the Biggest Song and Album for the 1st Half of 2024? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: As we ease into the second half of twenty twenty four, Illuminate,
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Speaker 2: a company that specializes in music and entertainment data, has
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Speaker 2: revealed the song and albums that led the way for
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Speaker 2: the first half with their Mediar charts, and the woman
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Speaker 2: who's dominating every other chart is, unsurprisingly the first name
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Speaker 2: we got to mention, Taylor Swifts. The Tortured Poets Department
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Speaker 2: was the US's most popular album in both streaming and
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Speaker 2: sales physical sales, but our most streamed on demand song
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Speaker 2: comes courtesy of a newcomer. It's Benson Boone's Beautiful Things,
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Speaker 2: which was also Benson's first American Top forty number one
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Speaker 2: s So plenty of time to go, but it looks
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Speaker 2: like Taylor's going to end twenty twenty four with the
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Speaker 2: most popular album of the entire year.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.