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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.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by aristarchus on Monday August 21 2017, @06:18PM (4 children)
No Comment.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @07:22PM (1 child)
Just as well. They consider you a far-left agitator. Any comments you make will send some alt-wrong snowflake crying off to law enforcement accusing you of "hate speech." You'll be hounded. They'll use the Establishment to silence you. Free speech is over. The purge has begun.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday August 21 2017, @08:14PM
Well, I did learn how low karma can go! And I would ask that others join me, but really there is no point. The only true "no comment" is that actual absence of comments.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @12:31AM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 23 2017, @12:31AM
Parent is one of the clearest, most lucid comments I have ever seen on SN! If only we had more of nothing, and less racist whining, MRA simpering, and alt-right gandy dancering.