HOLLYWOOD -- With Tuesday's release of sixth studio album Push and Shove, No Doubt resurfaces on a radically altered landscape. The Southern California quartet that ruled the airwaves with 1995'sTragic Kingdom released its last studio album 11 years ago, before the arrival of YouTube,Twitter, Facebook and the iTunes Store. The iPod had been out one month. First PushsingleSettle Down, a signature blend of pop-rock, ska and dancehall, impressed critics, found a toehold at radio and suggests the foursome still holds sway with the masses.
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A single is one individual song. If the single is a big hit, it usually is (or becomes) the best song on an album. com/2012/07/16/no-doubt-cant-settle-down-in-first-single-from-push-and-shove /
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In the old days, a single was a 45 rpm vinyl record having one song on each side, the A side and the B side. The best song on an album, a much larger 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record, was pressed as the A side of a single to be sold as such, with the B side often being of little value. The A side was expected to be played on the radio, and copies of the single were sent to the radio stations.