| 1 | * After years of having nowhere near as much mainstream success as 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. |
| 2 | ** 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. |
| 3 | ** 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. |
| 4 | * "Biko" is credited with sparking interest in the anti-apartheid movement in the West, spurring the divestment and sanction movements that helped bring down South Africa's apartheid government. |
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