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- ↑ "Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Issue date: 4/28/2012". reQuiem4adream's blog.
- ↑ "Eden XO". billboard.com.
- ↑ Here's a snippet of my new song coming out in three days #HoldMeNow
- ↑ Eden xo commits to neon-tinged love in the trippy music video for ‘El Barrio’
- ↑ Premiere: Eden xo's Punani 'Drips Gold'
- ↑ "ACE Repertory". ASCAP. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
- ↑ "Noel Maitland". dord.
- ↑ 'El Barrio' music video - YouTube
- ↑ Eden xo - So Lucky (Official Video) - YouTube