After a total of six weeks atop the chart and more than 466 million YouTube plays as of press time, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" topped Billboard's year-end Hot 100 list, the third artist to top the list with their debut entry on the chart in the past four years...
Sometimes, it only takes 27 seconds for life to change completely. Just ask Ray Dalton, whose half-minute hook on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' monstrous "Can't Hold Us" took the twenty-three-year-old tennis instructor from Seattle onto a whirlwind tour that's spanned the globe and sent his name to the top of the Billboard charts, carving out a place in the history books along the way...
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It's been a whirlwind of a year for Seattle's Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. After appearing on XXL's 2012 Freshmen Class cover, Macklemore set out to release the duo's studio debut, The Heist, independently. The album enjoyed a successful debut, pushing nearly 80,000 units in its first week thanks to Mack and Ryan's years of building a widespread and ardently devoted fan base...
Get to know Macklemore & Ryan Lewis a little better in this short documentary that gets inside the operation of the duo and their recent release, The Heist...