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posted by CoolHand on Monday August 21 2017, @05:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the wish-I-thought-of-that! dept.

Fortressof Solitude reports that a Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes:

Released by Samir Rezhami on iTunes, his creation titled “A a a a a Very Good Song” peaked at #44 on the US iTunes chart this past weekend. In addition, the ‘song’ has sold over 5,000 in sales across the world in the four days since its release and is still just hanging on in the top 100 tracks on iTunes in terms of sales. This is a very noteworthy achievement by any means, albeit a rather weird one. So how does a silent song sell a single copy on iTunes, let alone reaching the heights it has?

Picture this. An iPhone or iTunes users plugs into the AUX input of their car stereo. In many cases what happens next is that the alphabetically-first song in their library plays.

Every. Single. Time.

This has been enough to turn some people off their one-time favorites of the A Team and Ella Fitzgerald's "A-Tisket A-Tasket".

For the paltry sum of only $0.99, these folk can have up to 10 minutes to set up a separate playlist — in silence.

Silence is golden... and Samir is raking in the gold.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by NewNic on Monday August 21 2017, @06:08PM (2 children)

    by NewNic (6420) on Monday August 21 2017, @06:08PM (#557145) Journal

    In other news Samir Rezhami was sued for copyright infringement by John Cage.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Monday August 21 2017, @06:45PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Monday August 21 2017, @06:45PM (#557163) Journal

    Cage argued that his complete work was contained in Rezhami's track, while Rezhami countered that he didn't copy even a single note from Cage. An expert testified that both of them are right, at which point the judge decided that Rezhami is both guilty and not guilty of copyright infringement. This was then considered a landmark case for the first application of quantum mechanics to a juristic problem.

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Monday August 21 2017, @08:24PM

      by mhajicek (51) on Monday August 21 2017, @08:24PM (#557221)

      "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

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