“Hollaback Girl” first song with one million commercial downloads
For the first time since the advent of commercial digital music downloads, a recording has passed the 1,000,000 mark in download sales. The song, former Billboard #1 “Hollaback Girl” from Gwen Stefani’s debut album Love. Angel. Music., had sales of approximately 995,000 downloads as of Friday, September 30. The recording has averaged 15,000 downloads per week since it’s release on November 25, 2004.
Now, I like Gwen Stefani. Some of the stuff No Doubt did was amazing; but her transformation from Orange County cutie to ghetto-fabulous has been incredibly contrived and baffling. Moreover, “Hollaback Girl” has to be the most insipid piece of songwriting (and I use that term loosely) I’ve heard in years. Yet for some reason unknown to anyone with the slightest shred of musical taste, it’s incredibly popular.
That s*** is indeed bananas.
