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 ...
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) ...
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. ;)