Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

Music Trivia: The Christmas Music Edition

Think you know music? Quiz yourself with the latest episode of Hit Parade: The Bridge. 
This month, Host Chris Molanphy is joined by Jessica Goldstein, the culture editor at ThinkProgress and a journalist whose work has appeared in Vulture and The Washington Post, among other places. Her October article in Entertainment Weekly, “Britney Spears wanted to be a star: An oral history of '...Baby One More Time,'” was an inspiration for the November episode of Hit Parade. 
 Chris is also joined by one listener contestant to play some music trivia, which is all about holiday music.
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Podcast production by T. J. Raphael. Additional support for this episode comes from Danielle Hewitt and Merritt Jacob. 
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What makes a song a smash? Talent? Luck? Timing? All that—and more. Chris Molanphy, pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through storytelling, trivia and song snippets, Chris dissects how that song you love—or hate—dominated the airwaves, made its way to the top of the charts and shaped your memories forever.

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