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Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;GUY,&#8221; the next best performer, followed with 39 adds.<\/p>\n<p>5 Seconds of Summer&#8217;s breakthrough &#8220;She Looks So Perfect&#8221; followed with 26 adds, while DJ Snake &#038; Lil Jon&#8217;s &#8220;Turn Down for What&#8221; (24) and Nico &#038; Vinz&#8217; exploding &#8220;Am I Wrong&#8221; (24) closed out the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Just outside of the Top 5 was KONGOS&#8217; alternative smash &#8220;Come With Me Now.&#8221;  Sixth for the week, the band&#8217;s crossover attempt scored adds from a solid 23 Top 40 stations.<\/p>\n<p>19 added Iggy Azalea&#8217;s pop breakthrough &#8220;Fancy (featuring Charli XCX),&#8221; while 18 latched onto Katy Perry&#8217;s new single &#8220;Birthday.&#8221;  &#8220;Rude,&#8221; from buzzworthy Canadian act MAGIC!, landed in ninth with 16 adds, while My Crazy Girlfriend&#8217;s &#8220;Crazy Stupid Love&#8221; remains in the top 10 thanks to its 14 adds.<\/p>\n<p>Notables outside the top ten:<\/p>\n<p>*Several of last week&#8217;s impacting tracks, including Afrojack&#8217;s &#8220;Ten Feet Tall (featuring Wrabel)&#8221; (12 adds), Cher Lloyd&#8217;s &#8220;Sirens&#8221; (10 adds), HAIM&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221; (9 adds) and AJR&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Ready&#8221; (7 adds) remained in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>*Oh Honey&#8217;s &#8220;Be Okay,&#8221; which received exposure on &#8220;Glee&#8221; last month, picked up 11 of the format&#8217;s stations.<\/p>\n<p>*Alicia Keys&#8217; &#8220;It&#8217;s On Again (featuring Kendrick Lamar),&#8221; which appears on the soundtrack to &#8220;The Amazing Spider-Man 2,&#8221; scored nine weekly adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,206],"tags":[1810,2017,2016,1951,1843,314,176,895,1822,486,1753,105,1844,2098,2018,1980,2099],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KONGOS, MAGIC! 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