In this day in history, the young U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Russians in the semifinals of the 1980 Winter Olympics, prompting sportscasters Al Michaels to utter one of the most famous lines in American broadcasts: "Do you believe in miracles?" To commemorate this event, here is a music video essay featuring all the songs from the Billboard year-end Top Ten charts (1951-2015) that include the word miracle in chronological order:

And two bonuses: Of course, it would be remiss to not include Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" (1976), even though it only appears at #22 in Billboard's Hot 100 for that year.

Similarly, Jefferson Starship's "Miracles" (1975) has to be included here, despite somehow not making it into the year-end Hot 100 for any year.

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