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The country song (Wagon Wheel) written by Bob Dylan in 1973 and recorded in Mexico is one of the best selling songs ever in the USA. Sony Publishing announced in June that the song's sales are +16 million and the radio airplay audience is +4 billion. Wagon wheel is e.g. 11 platinum for Danius Rucker and 3 platinum for Old Crew Medicine Show. So Dylan wrote the music in 1973 and Ketch Secor wrote the lyrics in 2001. This song can be said to be organic, it has spread through bars and schools. The song is easy to sing and play, 3 chords. In addition to usa, it is popular e.g. In Canada, Australia, Ireland. It sells really well all the time and it has been too popular for a long time and e.g. In Nashville, it has been banned. It is Bob Dylan's second highest grossing song of this millennium after Make You Feel My Love. Blowin In The Wind is his most profitable song of all time, so it is a global anthem. Dylan's royalties have been 30-40 million dollars a year. Cover versions and their licensing e.g. to movies is lucrative.