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.