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"Birthday" in Top 30 music (1951-2015)

Plenty of birthday stuff showing up on my Facebook feed this week, prompting me to finally do a search for the word "birthday" in my music collections. This music video essay draws from Billboard's year-end Top 30 charts from 1951-2015. Besides the phrase "Happy Birthday", other "birthday" phrases appearing in the collection are "birthday cakes", "birthday suits", and "birthday surprise." The videos are in chronological order before deviating from the Billboard charts for a couple of treats at the end.

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