That Owl City Song Is No. 1 On The Pop Charts

October 29th, 2009 // 23 Comments

Owl City’s “Fireflies” moved into the Hot 100 penthouse this week after shifting 196,000 paid downloads last week—it’s currently at No. 5 on the iTunes chart, behind a couple of bonus tracks from Taylor Swift’s re-released Fearless and Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance.” More on this slightly unexpected triumph of post-Postal Service bedroom pop from Chris Molanphy on Friday, but for now, let’s all wonder if this means that the next Twilight soundtrack will move on from Pitchfork darlings to Jimmy Tamborellos in training. [Billboard / Dailymotion]


  1. @slowburn: Hahah I admit I was thinking that this morning.

  2. Any news on where that 111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon 55-cd box charted in Canada? For those who don’t know, the iTunes store screwed up and was selling it for $9.99 instead of $119.99 from (at least) Friday on, and as the word spread over the Internet, it steadily topped the Canadian iTunes album chart throughout the weekend.

  3. Only a couple of days ago did I realize that this song and the Death Cab song from the New Moon soundtrack aren’t one and the same. I just figured Ben Gibbard had decided fuck it, if Postal Service is never going to make another album, I’ll just start making Death Cab sound like Postal Service.

  4. @slowburn: Top 50 worst

    Aw, c’mon, seriously? This may be The Postal Service for Dummies but it’s nowhere near as bad as Three Doors Down or “My Humps.”

  5. @Thierry: I got a bunch of Beat Happening box sets, Punch Drunk Love-style, from SamGoody.com for 6.99 apiece a number of years ago.

  6. jackie

    Its should be cut off air they should be sued. how could anyone let this happen there gross Where is Postal Service

  7. jackie

    loser is scared of the dark take that video off put postal please

  8. jackie

    stupid people voted for them young kids that did not know about postal service lets educate them

  9. Bettajaws

    Shut up he’samazing

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