One of the reasons why I am warming to the idea of buying singles from iTunes is because I’ve been getting good use of the songs I’ve downloaded off iTunes lately. In fact, a lot of the tracks I’ve downloaded recently have been starting to get radio airplay. I’ve already blogged about Duffy, but another huge one was Sarah Bareilles’ Love Song. If you listen to the adult contemporary stations (Mix, Chum) then you have no doubt heard this song – it’s near the top of the charts now. I downloaded it in June of 2007, so early in fact that when I was looking for her full CD (Love Song is a nice piano driven ballad in the vein of Chantal Kreviazuk), I couldn’t even find it!
In October, I downloaded The Last Goodnight’s Pictures of You and Metro Station’s Shake It. Shake It has just started getting airplay, but Pictures of You was a decent hit last year. That one was a bit weird because it wasn’t offered for free until it was already on the radio! The same thing happened with I Nine’s Seven Days of Lonely in February and Kreesha Turner’s Bounce With Me in May.
Recently, Kardinal Offishall’s new single, Dangerous (featuring Akon, although Akon basically carries the entire song) was free and it looks like it’s going to be a summer blockbuster.
In addition to getting a lot of songs for free that I would’ve wanted to buy off iTunes anyways. I’ve been exposed to some electronic music that I otherwise never would have known about, such as Cut Copy’s Lights & Music and Danger’s 11h30. Overall, iTunes has been performing favorably, and maybe I’ll end up purchasing things for real money in the future.
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