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“Smooth,” the inescapable 1999 hit by Santana and Matchbox 20’s Rob Thomas, from Santana’s wildly popular late-career blockbuster Supernatural, spent 12 weeks at #1. It later re-emerged as reliable meme fodder (and a karaoke crowd-pleaser). Now, at a moment when seemingly every Y2K-era music is being revis...

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