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- "Shakedown 3". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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- "Shakedown 2". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- "Shakedown 3". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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- "Rain Down Love". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
- "Uninvited". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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- ↑ Finnish chart peaks "Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1961" (in Finnish). Sisältää Hitin - Suomen listalevyt (Timo Pennanen). Retrieved 20 September 2016.
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