Nov 112008
From Journey’s website…
“Don’t Stop Believin’, the classic Journey power ballad, has just become the first catalog track in history to achieve online digital sales of more than 2 million units, according to SoundScan.
First made available through the iTunes Store on April 28, 2003, the truly timeless “Don’t Stop Believin’” has become the top-selling catalog track in iTunes history and the sole catalog track to have crossed the 2 million (double platinum) threshold.
Digital Double Platinum!! Woah!!!
Pretty good, eh?
We can have the discussion about the validity or lack thereof of the power ballad but, I know people love ‘em and this is just further proof. What I want to know is….
Is there a power ballad that you will admit you like?
I do like Don’t Stop Believin, but I think my favorite has to be I Would Do Anything For Love by Marvin Lee Aday. What I’ve always thought is positive about the power ballad is that it shows a different side to a singer or band. It’s a risk. Sometimes done well, sometimes not.
Powerful…and yet timeless…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65I0HNvTDH4
I like those songs — the more I get rickrolled the more I realize … I am suddenly realizing how much I love Power Ballads. Thanks geniuses of music land, I find myself able to hold my own in any string or horn shop, any band shop, around any roadie… anywhere because of you guys…
I Would Do anything for Love With arms wide Open ’cause I’m never gonna Give you up even until Time to Say Good Bye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL0WFcygdWY
In my humble opinion, now that I have done some homework, this started the cookie cutter power ballad that has no end, even if Pavarotti did bring a Yugo to the demolition Derby…
With all this talk about the PowBall’d, we at MooPig may have stumbled upon a segment that here-to-fore may have not been fully defined. Generation Jones has arrived. That would put Barry White in 1974-79 as the prom songster at every high school in USA, and if they have proms in ‘74 Italia, there also.
Thanks again to the astute band fellows.