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Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" Breaks Chart Record

10:49 a.m. · January 20, 2010 · by Andrew Winistorfer

Ever feel like you hear the same song every two hours on the radio? Well, it turns out you probably are: Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" just set a chart record by being the most played pop song in one week on radio in the 17-years Billboard has been tracking the spins of pop songs. Billboard tracks 130 stations, on which "Bad Romance" earned 10,859 plays, or 84 per station, or once every two hours per station. "Bad Romance" takes the chart record previously held by Leona Lewis' equally the worst "Bleeding Love," which had 10,665 plays in one week in 2008. [Billboard]