Factoid

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

According to this morning's paper, 2008 is set to be the highest-selling year for singles EVER, with total sales topping 100m for the first time (compared to 1979's 89m). Obviously physical sales are a miniscule proportion of this but even so, that's a lot of sales. (And christ only knows how many non-sale downloads are going on).

I was a bit surprised by this!

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I think it happened with Kelly Rowland's 'Work' (even though the original was better). As far as I know, sales of the original and sales of the remix all counted towards the same song's tally.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i think the original was overshadowed in that case. never heard it anywhere. maybe it got 1Xtra support prior to the remix (which would have ended up getting more surely) but where else?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

All digital variants count, no matter how many (hence lots of songs now have tons of remixes).

The same happened with at least one of the Freemasons remixes of Beyonce's singles, if not several.

[damnspynovels.livejournal.com]

it's similar, but in some ways entirely opposite to the rules of formatting,

different formats of FGTH's Two Tribes, to stop people buying 10 different versions of the same song

VS

the same song, available in 10 different places, but is only likely to be bought once.