2013: The year pop stars got raunchy (again)

Reporter's Notebook: From Robin Thicke to Miley Cyrus to Kanye West to Beyonce, pop stars got naughty last year — to titillate, to sell records, to grab attention, to rebrand their images.The record-industry score-keepers at Nielsen SoundScan recently confirmed something many music fans had probably already assumed: Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" — the cheeky disco-funk jam with the controversial, nudity-enhanced video — was the biggest-selling single of 2013, with 6.5 million copies sold.

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