seriously, where did you get these stats?

i ask because:

1. half of these songs you've included were not radio hits. they might have gotten some radio play but i thought we were talking about mainstream hits.

2. i quickly picked out a handful of songs that are samples that you didn't note as sampled that actually do contain samples...and i'm willing to be money that if i went thru and looked up EACH song i'd find A LOT more.

think what you want but sampling was HUGE even in the mainstream from 2001 to 2006...why do you think so many people became "diggers" around that time?