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— by Chris Molanphy: A quarter-century ago this week, in October 1995, the No. 1 song in America, Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy,” represented a number of firsts. It was the first single by a woman to debut at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100—then a new chart phenomenon. (Just over a month earlier, Michael Jackson’s “You Are Not Alone” had been the first single, period, to open on top.) “Fantasy” was also arguably the first No. 1 song from the world of pop, not rap, built largely out of a sample of a prior hit. The song leaned heavily—but creatively—on a thick sample of Tom Tom Club’s deathless “Genius of Love,” an innovative move for a mass-appeal dance-pop record at the time…

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