After months of the same songs on the Hot 100, 'Billboard' tweaks its rules
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Billboard has revised its system of removing songs from the Hot 100 singles chart once they've gotten too old to qualify as contemporary hits. The measure, intended to shorten the amount of time successful songs spend on the Hot 100, knocks 10 tracks off this week's chart — including Swims' "Lose Control," which spent more than two years on the Hot 100 — and in the process cements a record that cou
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