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Silent 10-Minute Track Reaches Top 100 on iTunes

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

martyb writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @06:43PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @06:43PM (#557160)

    Creating a compressed, silent sound file is trivial with lame (or flac or any other encoder) and is a two command pipeline on a Linux machine.

    And if you don't regularly use those tools, it can take you quite a bit of time to set them up and find out how to do it. Or you can pay a dollar. How much is your time worth?

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  • (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday August 21 2017, @07:23PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 21 2017, @07:23PM (#557189) Journal

    Or you can put cheese in your ears for ten minutes. How much is cheese?

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Tuesday August 22 2017, @01:43AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 22 2017, @01:43AM (#557342) Journal

    Creating a compressed, silent sound file is trivial with lame (or flac or any other encoder) and is a two command pipeline on a Linux machine.

    And if you don't regularly use those tools, it can take you quite a bit of time to set them up and find out how to do it.

    It's worse than that. I ripped a CD for a friend (her CD) so she could copy the audio files to her iPod. I gave her the tracks in mp3 format (192kbps CBR) on a USB stick.

    A week later she returned the USB stick to me and I asked how it went. The answer? She could not figure out how to use iTunes to put music files on her iPod and so just re-bought the album on iTunes the "official iTunes way."

    Or you can pay a dollar. How much is your time worth?

    I don't see it that way. Those dollars add up. I hate them. For her sake.