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* After years of having nowhere near as much mainstream success as Music/{{Genesis}}, "Sledgehammer" shot to the top of the US charts and proceeded to knock "Music/InvisibleTouch" right out of the number one spot.

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* After years of having nowhere near as much mainstream success as Music/{{Genesis}}, Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, "Sledgehammer" shot to the top of the US charts and proceeded to knock "Music/InvisibleTouch" right out of the number one spot.
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* After years of having nowhere near as much mainstream success as Music/{{Genesis}}, "Sledgehammer" shot to the top of the US charts and proceeded to knock "Invisible Touch" right out of the number one spot.
** The song's music video, meanwhile, won Gabriel ''ten'' MTV Video Music Awards (nine for the video, and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_Video_Vanguard_Award Video Vanguard Award]] for Gabriel himself) - to date, no other performer has won that many awards for a single video.
** It is also the most-played music video in MTV history -- more times than any video by Michael Jackson, Madonna, Britney, ''anybody''. It got to the point where Gabriel wrote a letter to a network pleading for them to take it out of their rotation after endless months of play.

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* After years of having nowhere near as much mainstream success as Music/{{Genesis}}, "Sledgehammer" shot to the top of the US charts and proceeded to knock "Invisible Touch" "Music/InvisibleTouch" right out of the number one spot.
** The song's music video, meanwhile, won Gabriel ''ten'' MTV Video Music Awards (nine for the video, and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_Video_Vanguard_Award Video Vanguard Award]] for Gabriel himself) - himself)-- to date, no other performer has won that many awards for a single video.
** It is also the most-played music video in MTV history -- history-- more times than any video by Michael Jackson, Madonna, Britney, ''anybody''. It got to the point where Gabriel wrote a letter to a network pleading for them to take it out of their rotation after endless months of play.
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* "Biko" is credited with sparking interest in the anti-apartheid movement in the West.

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* "Biko" is credited with sparking interest in the anti-apartheid movement in the West.West, spurring the divestment and sanction movements that helped bring down South Africa's apartheid government.
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* "Biko" is credited with sparking interest in the anti-apartheid movement in the West.
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** It is also the most-played music video in MTV history -- more times than any video by Michael Jackson, Madonna, Britney, ''anybody''. It got to the point where Gabriel wrote a letter to a network pleading for them to take it out of their rotation after endless months of play.
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** The song's music video, meanwhile, won Gabriel ''ten'' MTV Video Music Awards (nine for the video, and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson_Video_Vanguard_Award Video Vanguard Award]] for Gabriel himself) - to date, no other performer has won that many awards for a single video.

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