M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" at #5 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart

This is pretty significant. M.I.A.'s single, "Paper Planes", has reached #5 in Billboard's Hot 100 chart, which takes into account sales, radio airplay, downloads, etc., of singles. The song has been steadily rising (due to the "Pineapple Express" trailer, among many other reasons), but what is amazing is that the album, "Kala", which the song is on has been out for almost a year.

 

"Kala" has re-entered the Billboard Top 200 albums chart, which is even more impressive in my opinion. I am glad people are buying the album, too. "Paper Planes" is a great song, but people should listen to "Bamboo Banga" and "20 Dollar", too.

If you want to continue the rise of the album and the song, you can buy Kala at the following links ...

Buy Kala on Amazon's MP3 Downloads site (very easy, better quality and cheaper than iTunes)

Buy Kala on iTunes

Buy Paper Planes on Amazon's MP3 Downloads site

Buy Bamboo Banga on Amazon's MP3 Downloads site

Buy 20 Dollar on Amazon's MP3 Downloads site

Here are the three songs, again, if you want to listen to them ...

 

In other news, I started searching for all of my favorite video games on YouTube today. I wanted to go as far back as the days of a Texas Instruments keyboard/CPU that I would hook up to the back of an old TV to play games like "Hangman" and "Parsec". I found a video for Parsec, but I couldn't find a video for Hangman. The great thing about Hangman is that its theme song was the same theme song as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the old black and white TV show ... there was an 80s version, too).

Here is the playlist (it is short right now, and I am only including games that I actually played ... I only solved a handful of them) ...

I have another playlist that I have posted before of M.I.A.'s concert at the Hogg Auditorium at the University of Texas in Austin, TX on November 3, 2007 ...

Here is another playlist I am going to be working on to provide an easy way to see all of M.I.A.'s videos ...

Another item I have been reading about is Yahoo!'s new "Fire Eagle" (Firefox's cousin?), which allows advertisers to know where you are. It kind of reminds me of the advertising in "Minority Report" ...

It sounds a little scary and Big Brother-ish, but I think something really cool will come out of it, and I think Google will take it and make it into something a lot better. I just want to be able to play with it on my Blackberry Pearl 8110. ;)