What make a great one-hit wonder? For starters, it can’t just be a normal hit song. It must be the sort of hit that everybody on the planet knows word-for-word — even years after its heyday has come ...

One Australian man just used a sort-of romantic song in his very romantic wedding proposal — and he filmed the production so we can all enjoy it. The lyrics to "Rude," Magic!'s 2014 hit, are about a ...

Magic! commandeered radio waves with their breakout hit 'Rude,' successfully making it one of the songs of the summer in 2014. The track is unstoppable -- an element the band touches on in the latest ...

Magic! is out to prove that it has more to its discography than "Rude." Stopping by "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" last night (Feb. 6), the quartet opened by playing another reggae-infused track -- "No Way No"… ...

That approach is evident throughout the band's debut album, Don't Kill the Magic, which debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200, selling 36,000 copies in the first week after its July 1 release. By ...

One of the things that people always tell you about Los Angeles but you can never fully comprehend is how spread out everything is. I realized this by spending the past week in LA and realizing I had ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

Magic! have no intentions of going quietly. The reggae-pop band exploded out of the gate in 2014 with their Hot 100-topping single “Rude,” an omnipresent summer radio anthem that sold millions of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about music, and why you buy the tunes you do. Jul 29, 2014, 07:27am EDT Jul 29, 2014, 08:46am EDT This article is more ...

The mystery of why some songs endure forever while others are quickly forgotten is commonly believed to have two explanations. The first explanation is that in order to stand the test of time a song ...

Luckily, Zedd just swooped in and saved us from our boring lives with a remix of MAGIC!’s “Rude.” The original of this song is pretty much everywhereright now—and it’s a song that I, to be honest, ...

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