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Hot Chocolate's best known song

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Best known as the "I believe in miracles" song.

Sony once followed into Nokia's footsteps

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Yep, it was the Xperia Play, which was launched in 2011 and served as an extension to the PlayStation line.

ITV's ill-fated quiz show channel

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From 2006 to 2007, ITV had a sixth branded channel called ITV Play, which relied on phone-in quiz shows than game shows like Challenge and as a result of the phone-in scandals in spring 2007, the channel shut down soon after.

While the Billboard Hot 100 began in 1958

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In actuality, the American singles chart from Billboard magazine began in 1940, though the earliest example was in fact the chart for the NBC radio show Your Hit Parade , which began in 1935 before it ended a week before Billboard began their singles chart.