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Ten national pop acts that will dominate fall charts

By DANIEL BROCKMAN | September 19, 2012

TAYLOR SWIFT, RED [Big Machine; October 22] » It's Swift's trademark stick-it-to-the-ex-ers, but this time with knob-twiddling by Max Martin and reported dips into wub-wubstep; this will be ubiquitous by year's end, as John-Mayer-blow-off anthem "We Are Never Getting Back Together" is already the best-selling download ever by a female artist.

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