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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @08:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @08:41PM (#557228)

    Apple prides itself by not offering "options". Much like the 3 button mouse vs. the one button mouse or the removal of the numpad and arrow keys, to these modern GUI designers, choice suggests there's something wrong with their creative vision and that they can't predict their customers' needs and wants. To the Apple genius, there can be only one way to navigate their interface. For their interface is the one true interface. And none shall navigate it using arrow keys or right click it's curved buttons.

    Praise be the Apple.

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