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“I said, ‘Hey who are you going to get to sing it?’ and he said, ‘You’” When Avicii transformed an ‘Irish pub song’ into a generational anthem

Sunday September 7, 2025. 10:11 AM , from Keyboard Magazine
One of most euphoric tracks of the 2010s, The Nights has now racked up billions of streams
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