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Dominic Fike

Babydoll

Dominic Fike's breeziest, slightest song -- a 98-second EP track he wrote on house arrest in 2018 -- finally cracks the Hot 100's top 10 eight years later, carried entirely by a TikTok resurgence that outran everything he has released since.

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Greatest of All Time!

Sinéad O'Connor

Nothing Compares 2 U

Prince wrote it, recorded it, and gave it away to his own side project in 1985, where it went almost nowhere. Sinead O'Connor found the song five years later and turned a deep cut into a generational standard.

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Greatest of All Time!

Natalie Imbruglia

Torn

By the time Natalie Imbruglia made it a global No. 1 in 1997, 'Torn' had already failed twice -- once in Danish, once as a rock-band single nobody noticed.

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