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Old 02-11-2021, 02:48 AM
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Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum View Post
Hold Me seems to be a major casualty in this regard. From what I can tell it is the third highest selling Fleetwood Mac song of all time in terms of physical copies (around twice as many as Gypsy). Yet its well down streaming list (considerably lower than Gypsy).

Hold Me is a massive hit that doesn't seem to have had wider enduring appeal.
I think because just like Gypsy and Think About Me, they were over produced(beautifully), and that translates into being hard to replicate live. Well, back before the karaoke tracks that everyone uses now.
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