Napster top 10 downloads for 1/13/04 |
Received email with the top 10 Napster downloads and loaded the playlist into Rhapsody (except for the Nickelback tunes which aren’t available there yet).
- “Hey Ya!” by Outcast? Yikes! It sort of reminded me of that song from the Shrek movie (”All Star”). As for “The Way You Move”, the chorus is good but I do not like the rap-like verse structure.
- “The Scientist” by Coldplay is good, as well as “White Flag” by Dido which actually I heard a really good acoustic-only version on the Sharon Osbourne show in December.
- “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down is competent, but sort of more of the same we’ve heard from their first CD.
- “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera is a pretty song, but something about Aguilera’s vocals are not right. Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with her music to recognize her voice, but I’d have rather heard say Tori Amos doing this piano-heavy song than her. Not bad, though.
- Alicia Keys has a nice voice in the song “You Don’t Know My Name” which has her working the scales pretty good, which reminded me a bit of an American Idol contestent song.
So these are the legal download songs that folks are buying? Am I missing something or is this really what’s ‘popular’ today?
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Well, allowing that some people are filling in some holes in their archives (”Beautiful” is from early last year), this is an extremely fair approximation of what’s popular. If anything, it could probably eschew the double Silverchair (another archive-filler) for another couple R&B singles (esp. Milkshake by Kelis, which is on the iTunes top 10 and complete unavoidable in daily life).
My friends are all obsessed with “Hey Yeah” — it’s a fantastic cross-genre single and it’s fun to dance to. I don’t see the allure in Outkast’s whole disc, but the single is a gem.
Also, funny that you should mention Amos as a potential singer for the Aguilera tune — even as obsessed with Tori as i am it didn’t occur to me. Keep in mind that the song wholly penned by producer Linda Perry, so it wasn’t necessarily meant for Christina’s gigantic set of pipes (she could have had it sitting around for a while).
Keys is supposedly “showing off her vocal talents” on this new disc, but i agree that it sounds like Idol posturing. She’s never quite stood up to the hype for me.
All told, the iTunes top ten is much more representative of buying patterns.
Comment by peter — January 15, 2004 @ 1:20 am PST