A pop song or musical track that sells well when released as a single.
 the group's hit single ‘Best Song Ever’
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-  There's only one sign of a hit single on the whole thing.
 -  It sounds less like a cohesive album than an attempt to stumble upon the formula for one more hit single.
 -  No one will accuse them of churning out hit singles with Beatles-like efficiency.
 -  The big hit single is actually one of the weaker tracks.
 -  Unlike her last, this is not an album crammed to the brim with hit singles.
 -  Music videos for the three hit singles spawned by the highly popular soundtrack album are featured, all in full screen.
 -  Playing the hit single isn't really the band's raison d'être.
 -  They've produced a string of classic hit singles, combining edgy ideas from rap with classic female vocal harmonies.
 -  The deliciously syncopated "Spoon" was a number-one hit single in Germany later that year.
 -  The objective is to record a debut song with a hit single that would help them get noticed on both sides of the border.