The iTunes Store Top 100

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Does anyone else check this every now and then?

It's interesting, innit?

I like when random old songs pop up, like today "Fade Into You" by Mazzy Star is #98! It makes me feel like it's a hell of a lot more democratic and populist than the Billboard Hot 100, with radio airplay dominated by payola, etc.

Does anyone know whether "Today's Top Songs" means "since midnight" or "within the last 24 hours"? If it's the former, then I bet it's pretty weird for the first 15 minutes or so -- but I'm not usually online then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 August 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the celebrity playlists are funny. Andrew WK's is AWESOME.

― Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Monday, 2 August 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew's list (no kidding): 1. Chocolate CIty 5:36 Parliament Funked Up: The Very Best of Parliament 2. Bop Gun (Endangered Species) 8:32 Parliament Tear the Roof Off 1974-1980 3. Dr. Funkenstein 5:46 Parliament Clones of Dr. Funkenstein 4. Mothership Connection (Star Child) 6:13 Parliament Mothership Connection 5. Up for the Down Stroke 5:11 Parliament Up for the Down Stroke 6. Bootzilla 5:41 Bootsy Collins Bootsy? Player of the Year 7. Mug Push 3:52 Bootsy Collins Ultra Wave 8. The Motor-Booty Affair 5:16 Parliament Motor-Booty Affair 9. Everything Is on the One 3:47 Parliament Clones of Dr. Funkenstein 10. Funkin' for Fun 5:56 Parliament Clones of Dr. Funkenstein Can you imagine an Andrew WK P-Funk record? Now that would be awesome...

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew WK doesn't approve of punctuation...

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Nick Drake's "One of These Things First" is #98 right now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 August 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a bit like watching the lower reaches of the Amazon chart. I wonder why 'One of These Things First' has popped up. Is it on an advert or something?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I just figured it out: it's on the Garden State soundtrack, which also explains why the Shins and the Postal Service are so high.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh God, Garden State really does sound bad now (and I love that song but you know.)

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 23 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

fourteen years pass...

is this an actual thing now?

https://pitchfork.com/news/chinese-pop-star-kris-wus-itunes-sales-under-review-following-outcry-from-ariana-grande-fans/

― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 8 November 2018 19:52 (seven years ago)

yes

the first likely case of this phenomenon (chinese popstar w/ close to zero profile in the united states suddenly zooming toward the top of the itunes charts) was with jane zhang's "dust my shoulders off" two years ago. it has happened before with kris wu. it will probably keep happening since the digital singles market in the us is so weak now and can therefore be more easily gamed by overseas fanbases. it's probably not the first time billboard has investigated the suspicious sales, either.

― dyl, Friday, 9 November 2018 02:47 (seven years ago)

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