Posts Tagged with ‘Billboard’

For several years now the digital-music-downloading world has been able to enjoy albums new and old purchased and transmitted via the Web. Millions of songs sit on Web servers, ready for purchase by consumers, and purchase they do. Over three billion songs have already been sold on Apple?s iTunes service alone. With all others such online outlets combined, the total number of downloads is no doubt many, many more.
But there is one particular catalogue of music albums that has [...]

I was reading an older post from Shoutblog that, in turn, referenced Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The post started out describing two friends making an "all time top 10 list" of songs, but found as they voted out choices that weren't the same for both of them, they headed toward the Billboard charts, leaving edginess and originality behind for the common music that everyone seems to know.
The trend that seems to be taking hold of many Web 2.0 companies [...]