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High-energy soul songs - most of which were recorded by black American artists but had flopped on their original release in the 60s - were rediscovered by DJs in places like Wigan, Stoke and Blackpool.

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023

Spotify, whose stock spiked in 2020 on news that it had signed the semi-royals, dropped them three years later, leading to speculation that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had flopped.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2023

An A.I. chatbot that Meta had released months earlier, BlenderBot, had flopped, and another Meta A.I. project, Galactica, was pulled down after just three days.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Both the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the National Fraternal Order of Police issued a joint statement expressing their disappointment that talks had flopped.

From Slate • Oct. 4, 2021

His memoir had flopped, about five hundred copies sold from a printing of three thousand.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden