As it turns out, a lot of people wanted to go thrift shopping with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The pair’s first hit, “Thrift Shop” (featuring Wanz), was the biggest hit of the first half of 2013. The genial hip-hop smash sold 5,558,000 copies in the first half of the year, which establishes a new digital sales record. It breaks the record set last year by “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye featuring Kimbra, which sold 5,501,000 copies in the first half. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis has a second song in the mid-year top 10. “Can’t Hold Us” (featuring Ray Dalton) is #6, with sales of 3,129,000 in the first half. This marks the first time than an artist has had two songs in the mid-year...
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