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“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. Baby., 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.
Stefani commented, “It’s always an honor to be recognized for your music, and this is really the coolest. It’s exciting to see people embrace the song and really make it part of their lives. Whether it’s cds, computers, or cellphones...it really is bananas.”
Another track from the album, “Rich Girl,” was featured in commercials for Apple and Pepsi’s free iTunes download promotion earlier in the year. “Hollaback Girl” is available for sale from iTunes, as well as Napster, Rhapsody, Sony Connect and other online music retailers.
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Sadly, it did earn this title. Now w h o r es and idiots with no music sense whatsoever are celebrating, I imagine. Gwen has no talent, but that doesn’t stop tone-deaf idiots, w h o r es, s k a n k s, s l u t s, and retards who love her so-called “music” are just loving it. I must add that this doesn’t mean she’s talented or that she even has a remote chance at making good music, it just means that there are a bunch of idiots out there who love s h i t.
Posted by Jack on October 6, 2005 at 5:32 PM (PDT)
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Ignathius: Who has the least sense of what good music is these days? TEENAGERS.
ME: The fact that you can switch sides so easily on a song as foolish and retarded as this one is shows that you’re easily manipulated and it doesn’t take much to turn you around. Pretty lame is what it is.
Podeluxe: Don’t try to sound “deep.” Sure it would be a boring place if we all had the same tastes, however everyone, despite what their tastes may be, should still recognize when s h i t t y “muzak” like Gwen’s cr@p comes along and SHUN it. Shunning cr@p like this proves a person has a thing called INTELLIGENCE. That’s a fact, by the way. Period.
Matt: You seem generally intelligent, except when it comes to this. Here is where your intelligence falls short. The song S U C KS. So does Gwen. End of story.
Posted by Jack on October 6, 2005 at 5:37 PM (PDT)
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STFU you god damn music snob! You people think you have the “right” taste in music, which is complete BS, and you’re also so freaking uptight like you got some kind of large, heavy spiked object up-yours. Gwen made ta stupid and fun album for the purpose of being stupid and fun. Why the hell don’t you know how to have “fun”?
Posted by Jack's Gay Lover on October 26, 2005 at 9:27 PM (PDT)
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I think this song is great but it would be better if Gwen would sing a bit rather than shouting like in “Rich girl”.Go Gwen!
Posted by Ella on October 27, 2005 at 9:35 AM (PDT)
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I LOVE THAT SONG BUT I CAN’T GET IT ON MY MEDIA PLAYER
Posted by Katsi'tsaienhne on November 19, 2005 at 5:17 PM (PDT)
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I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove that song
Posted by c on February 15, 2006 at 2:38 PM (PDT)
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I love the song! I hope everyone else goes bananas for it.
Posted by m on February 15, 2006 at 2:44 PM (PDT)
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this song smells worse than my butt
Posted by poodlebutt on April 19, 2006 at 1:55 AM (PDT)
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hey you gwen haters. She rocks the house and will always be the best. I like hollaback Girl but Crash is my favorite or What You Waiting For. I love you Gwen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Ethan on May 1, 2006 at 3:28 PM (PDT)
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How do u listen 2 the song?!!!!How do you download music off this site i have looked at about 50 websites to download music and i had to pay 4 all of them!!!!!! please help....PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Anna on June 28, 2007 at 2:47 AM (PDT)
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