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- adjective of a hit record that has entered the
charts in a high position, or has climbed rapidly in the charts, or is thought to have thepotential for further rapid advancement
Etymologies
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From the magazine Billboard's practice, in the 1960s and 1970s, of putting a bullet sign in front of chart entries for songs that had sold one million singles.
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