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Photos: 12 hit songs that almost weren't
Record execs hated Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines." What other big hits were almost misses?
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Robin Thicke is killing it on the charts this summer with a little number called "Blurred Lines," which, if you haven't heard it, we'd like to know what remote cabin you've been living in. But for all the song's success, it almost didn't happen -- Thicke's label didn't like the song and Remy Martin -- for whom Thicke is a spokesman -- payed for the ubiquitous music video which propelled the song to hit status. Click through to see some other hit songs that were almost misses.
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