Even More Out of (i)Tune(s)!

Pretty much year ago today, I wrote a post of how I felt we were so out of tune with "popular" music... bemoaning the fact that we had only 14 of the Top 100 Best Selling Songs sold on iTunes last year.

Well, folks -- it's even worse this year!   

Now we're not timid in our music download purchases.  I just threw together a quick "smartlist" and it showed we had 162 new additions to our music library this year.  While I am sure that's not a whole lot to many of you, it still surprised me a bit ($162!!)... but there were a few albums in there plus a bunch added by alternate means... but I'm still guessing $100+ spent on music this year.

So how hip are we !?!?

We have 8 of the Top 100 Best Selling Songs sold on iTunes in 2007!  And here they are:

#5 - The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani
#8 - Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
#13 - Rockstar - Nickelback
#25 - Home - Daughtry
#36 - U + Ur Hand - P!nk
#43 - Beautiful Liar - Beyonce & Shakira
#63 - Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer
$65 - Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall

Now I haven't figured out the breakout by genre of all our purchases -- and I think we are pretty eclectic -- but it doesn't show up much in these.  Here is # we purchased in genre OF  # in that genre in the Top 100

Pop: 6 of 36
Hip-Hop/Rap: 0 of 31
Alternative: 0 of 13
R&B/Soul: 0 of 9
Rock: 2 of 6
Country: 0 of 3
Soundtrack: 0 of 1
Vocal: 0 of 1

Though I am not sure how valid that is... i.e. John Mayer is "Rock" and Daughtry and P!nk are "Pop"?

We'll see how we do next year... given our trend iTunes may have to start paying us in order to get some bestselling songs into our library!!