iTunes has found a new love.
The nuTsie sideTunes beta delivers an enhanced, tailored iTunes listening experience.
Just look at the features:
- Serendipity Slider™ - Seemlessly mixes new, recommended songs with your iTunes.
- Grab Bag - Like a song? Grab it. Listen to it again. (here's mine)
- Featured playlists - iTunes top 100, Top 100 Rock songs. Guitar Hero songs. Too many to list.
- Sharing - See, listen, and take what your friends are listening to.
2. "Love In This Club" by Usher and Young Jeezy. Released last week, it made its rapid climb up the charts, just as expected..
3. "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles. Staying in the top 5 for the 6th straight week.
4. "No Air" by Jordin Sparks and
Chris Brown. Two teenagers sing duet about apparent asphyxiation, make millions off twenty-somethings who still watch American Idol.
5. "Low" by Flo Rida (feat. T-Pain). iTunes Top 100 stalwart drops 4 spots to unheard-of depths, State of Florida wants its name back.
Greatest Gainer:
- "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley. Went from unknown to the top of the charts in 3 days. Behold the power of Simon, Randy and Paula Abdrunk.
Farthest Faller:
- Amy Winehouse, in general. From penthouse to outhouse (or crackhouse, whichever you prefer). Went from 4 songs firmly planted in the top 25 the week after the
Grammy's to one song clinging to the #85 spot ("Rehab").
Missy Elliott is back with a vengeance. Having not heard from her for a while, Missy christened her return by breaking out two new singles, “Ching-A-Ling” and “Shake Your Pom Pom”, off the Step Up 2 soundtrack (an album which also includes Flo Rida’s mega-hit “Low”). Missy is back to her old tricks too, releasing another amazing music video .
Some sense of normalcy has come back to the iTunes Top 100, having both Paula Abdul and Michael Jackson depart the top 100. Paula’s “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” fell by the wayside after a Super Bowl halftime performance left a lot to be desired (and a little queasy), to say the least. The gloved one,
however, fell out of the 100 the day his new album dropped. Strange (if I am going to use the word strange, shouldn’t it be about “Jack-O”?). The whole album (”Thriller 25”, released February 12th), to me, is just a way to make a bunch of money with minimal work. I guess the Neverland Ranch needed some new llamas and a tilt-o-whirl…
Ok, enough on the 80’s star misfits. Other stars making waves in the 100 are Sheryl Crow, whose song “Love Is Free” debuted nicely off of her latest album "Detours" and Amy Winehouse, whose 5 Grammy’s bolstered her record sales enough to get two songs (“Rehab” and "You Know I'm No Good") back into the top 100.
Posted by nuTsie Guy
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:52:00 GMT
Another busy week in the iTunes Top 100, let’s get going…
Tom Petty used the Super Bowl XLII Halftime Show as a catalyst to further his expiring career, having 5 songs limp back into the iTunes Top 100. I don’t know if it is just me, but was this the worst halftime show since “Nipplegate”? A flaccid Tom Petty mumbling through songs that we’ve all heard 400 times, just trying to distract the 97 million viewers for 12 minutes? Come on. And do we need that fake audience brimming over with fake enthusiasm to get so much camera time? And maybe this is just me…but did the first 18 seconds of the halftime show remind anyone else of a fluorescently-lit telling of the birds and the bees? Watch it again and think about it.
Did anyone else see Paula Abdul perform her new single “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” at The Super Bowl? I am not going to waste my time telling you she was lip-synching. If you have eyes and are older than 11, you know that. What I care to comment on is the sheer bravado and lack of loyalty to fans it takes to do such a thing. Instead of sing a song that you “recorded” and let your fans see and hear you sing your first single in 15 years, you would rather prance around a stage you are performing on the Mickey Mouse club in 1988, resurrecting some prehistoric dance moves to boot. I don’t know, maybe I am being too tough on her but I found it insulting, and I despise Paula Abdul (can you tell?).
Ok, no more ranting, back to the top 100…
Joining Tom and His Heartbreakers in the 100 is Journey, back with “Don’t Stop Believin” after a month long hiatus. In my heart, it never really left at all. Also, the song “What Is Love?” by Haddaway popped into the top 100 after being used in the hilarious Pepsi Max ad. However I can’t help but wonder how much that song would be heard if that SNL skit never happened.
It has been a big week for iTunes Top 100, let’s jump right in…
Michael Jackson is back...in the iTunes Top 100, that is (sorry, didn’t mean to send any children running in terror). His song featuring Akon, “Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008" is the first single off his forthcoming release of “Thriller 25”; a remix/remaster album celebrating the silver anniversary of one of the most influential albums ever (not to mention one of the best selling). Other artists rumored to be on the one-gloved Prince of Pop’s CD are Akon, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Ne-Yo and will.i.am. The album is released February 12th.
Not to be outdone in the recent resurgence of washed-up entertainers is the glossy-eyed pop icon Paula Abdul. Having not released a single in 15 years, what better time to join the party than a few days before she performs at the Super Bowl XLII halftime show. For me (hell, for all of us), please, Paula, get off the stage and back on your crappy TV show. And put down the microphone, and pick back up those pain killers and vodka. We liked you better when you were slurring your way through American Idol auditions. The best part? The songs called “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow”. Can you feel me cringing? You can get the album featuring this musical gem (along with other songs featuring Idol alum Elliott Yamin, record label vagabond Katharine McPhee, Jason Mraz and even Three 6 Mafia) on March 11th.
Alright, I’m done ranting, enjoy the Super Bowl (and the train-wreck of a halftime show), talk to you next week, when hopefully Bobby Brown and Gloria Estefan release new singles…
Hey all, just a quick wrap up in the week’s iTunes top 100 happenings…
Carrie Underwood added another single to the top 100. “All-American Girl” is one of the two songs on Underwood’s album, “Carnival Ride” that the Grammy winner wrote herself, and according to the ex-Idol, the song is autobiographical.
Feist (real name Leslie Feist) has, sadly enough, been knocked out of the top 100. “1234” has been everywhere for months since the Canadian-born singer was featured in a iPod nano ad that we’ve all seen about 412 times (that also has a hilarious spoof.) Feist’s album “The Reminder” is now up over 1,000,000 units sold, and is nominated for 4 Grammy awards. Not a bad year for her…
Other than that, I really have nothing to report, enjoy the top 100, I’ll talk to you in a week…
At a time in which it seems like every country singer or pop-punk band wants to record a Christmas album to make a few bucks, I thought I would highlight some holiday songs that I truly enjoy:
First is John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s“Happy Xmas (War Is Over)”. Originally recorded in October 1971, the song has evolved from Vietnam War protest song to Christmas classic. Truly one of my holiday favorites.
From war and protest to a slapstick comedian, Adam Sandler has finally appeared in the iTunes top 100 (as predicted by me last week) with “The Chanukah Song”. Sandler has released 3 versions of the song, the original released on 1994’s “What The Hell Happened To Me?”. Trans-Siberian Orchestra have staked serious claim in the iTunes top 100 (as they tend to do this time of year), having 3 songs in the top 75. While some people have been fans since the group formed in 1996, most have heard them for the first time in a famous Miller Lite commercial.
Joining her in the 
