Charles on… anything that comes along

iTunes 2nd-week Euro sales surpass 1.5M says Billboard Bulletin, which is a slightly misleading headline; what it’s referring to is the total. So that’s 800,000 in the first week, and 700,000 in the second. (Hmm, did they really give out 100,000 free songs to the hacks who came to the launch? £15 or 20 Euros each.. times about 100… )

Anyway, it’s very smart marketing by Apple to have the 100-million-songs promotion going. The best link to the running total is Apple’s front page which is doing the count, er, up.

That’s by the by, though. I realised this morning as I listened to the woeful sounds of The Best of Thin Lizzy - and thought Ker-ist, this stuff was crap and I never realised it back then - that in the future songs will go the way of films.

Just as you have straight-to-video films now, you’re going to have straight-to-download songs and albums that will never have a physical release. Which in some cases would be a good thing.

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