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Posted by James W. Coates Jun 20, 2008 |
Apple posted a press release this week that music fans have “purchased and downloaded over five billion songs” from the iTunes store, making it “the world’s most popular online movie store”.
Admittedly, I’ve contributed immensely to iTunes’ sales. But one thing startles me as I scan the new releases in the electronic section and look at the top sales chart. I wonder if I am the only one buying dance music from iTunes. It seems the chart has had the same top ten songs since…late 2007.
Let’s run down the top ten for today, June 20, 2008.
1. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
2. Daft Punk – One More Time
3. Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek
4. Daft Punk – Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger
5. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
6. Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam
7. Daft Punk - Technologic
8. Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
9. Moloko – Time is Now
10. Oakenfold – Starry Eyed Surprise
While I can’t find fault with any of these tracks and have embraced each one at different periods of my life, “Such Great Heights” recalls my travels through Vietnam in 2004-2005, “Hide and Seek” my summer romance of 2006, and I still listen to “Paper Planes” regularly.
But I can’t help wondering who is keeping “Pump Up The Jam” alive in the top ten. I bought that album with babysitting money back in 1989. With all the great electronic, dance and techno music available today why is this track still ranking high? And why does Daft Punk, who hasn’t released any new material since 2005, have 3 songs in the top ten?
Isn’t anyone else downloading dance music from iTunes? I have to scan down all the way to number 34 before I find a track released in 2008 - “Vanished” by Crystal Castles.
Just a curious observation