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Trans-Atlantic Chart Toppers

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Six years ago, I wrote something in an e-mail to my friend Raj about the increasing divergence of the British and American music scenes, but the fact that no British artist had topped the American singles chart in 9 years (until James Blunt came in with “You’re Beautiful”) was still pretty surprising to me.