I have just been in Subway, where the speakers above my head segued from Blue's Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word into, oh glory, Orbital's Chime. I was so excited, I ordered double cheese.
In other news, the CD is dead. No, really, this time it actually is.
This week saw the first music chart without the behemoth of Woolworths peddling the likes of Killers and Neyo next to their usual jumble of dolls, blank discs, board games and knickers. CD distributors feared a mountain of unsold discs and pulled back on supply. This week was always going to be, basically, a download chart not a real-plastic-CD chart.
So no surprise then that this week's number one, Leona Lewis' wrought version of Snow Patrol's Run, sold more downloads than any other song ever. That's 133,000 copies and a bullet at number one.
Which is really jammy for Leona, because it was just an album track pounced on by pop-thirsty fans after a performance on the Karaoke Factor in November.
I'm a little jealous. So this Saturday I'm going to stand outside the market stalls just off Tib Street in Manchester city centre and belt out my own unique version of Orbital's Chime*.
Millions will flock to the internet and download my song. They will learn my special dance. Woolworths will resurrect itself and sell tea towels with my face on.
I am the future of downloads.
People will eat double cheese in my name, for my name is The Electronica Leona Lewis.
(Blogger: some kind of facility to insert rousing music at the end of blog posts would come in useful here...)
*I will only do this if it's 28 degrees celsius and blazing sunshine
1 comment:
What's this special Chime dance then?
And am I allowed to join in if I see you and get carried away in the moment?
But how will I recognise you? There will probably be LOADS of people doing Oribital covers just off Tib Street ..
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