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External_Star3376 t1_j1pghan wrote

Reply to comment by bathroomkindle in Holy shit is “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega & DNA so godamn good. by treeillusion

What a great story and a nice and sweet clip. The subtitles are dutch if you were wondering.

This clip was made for a program called 'top 2000 a gogo'. The Top 2000 is an annual Dutch marathon radio programme, that plays the 2,000 songs voted most popular of all time. The show runs 24 hours a day, starting Christmas and ending on New Year's Eve.The show is hosted by the Dutch national radio station NPO Radio 2. It's the most popular radio program of all year and with many people a tradition to listen to and vote for.

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mooninuranus t1_j1s6c3v wrote

Fun fact - assuming the lowest ranked song gets one vote, the next lowest gets two, etc you need over 20m votes to rank two thousand songs (sum of natural numbers).

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External_Star3376 t1_j1udpf4 wrote

Each person that votes, can vote for a top 35 (used to be 10 I think). It's always a mixture of international and dutch songs and Queen with Bohemian Rapsody is almost every year on first place (it transcends generations now, and because young people heard it on new years eve just before 12 o'clock they vote for it nowadays again as well, as a sort of tradition/nostalgia).

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mooninuranus t1_j1ugqye wrote

Yeah, I read up on how the voting works.

Love the idea of it tbh.

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