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There have been some big surprises on the pop charts this year. An Australian female rapper had one of the year’s biggest hits. For the first time in more than 50 years, a comedy album reached No. 1. An a cappella group had the year’s biggest Christmas album. Here’s a recap of the Winners & Losers of 2014 in pop music.

Winner: Taylor Swift
The megastar made the year’s gutsiest move when she resisted pressure to put a few country tracks on her fifth studio album — to satisfy her original fans. Swift wanted to make an all-pop album and stuck to her guns. She knew what she was doing. That album, ‘1989,’ has spent five weeks at No. 1 and has spawned two No. 1 singles.

Loser: Robin Thicke
There are peaks and valleys in every career, but rarely has an artist gone from career-high to butt-of-jokes so quickly. Thicke’s seventh studio album, ‘Paula’ (an album-length plea to his estranged wife), spent just one week in the top 40. His best hope is that it was such a bomb that his wife will feel sorry for him and take him back.

[23 total comparisons from the writer Paul Grein]

https://www.yahoo.com/music/music-s-winners-losers-of-c1418944357554/

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