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TIL in 2017, a 10-minute song of silence entitled "A a a a a Very Good Song" became one of the top selling songs on iTunes because it helped solve the problem of car stereos playing the first song from an iPhone playlist in alphabetical order, giving people enough time to pick a song.

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