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Slate has a piece on Billboard's new digital download chart. Beyoncé's new single was #1 this week with 1,500 downloads--a number so small it's hardly worth printing. The most interesting speculation in the article:

Billboard says that Apple, the most aggressive player in this market so far, is selling an average of 500,000 tracks a week. If that's true, and it takes just 1,500 sales to be No. 1, then the variety of tracks that people are downloading must be extremely broad--particularly compared with, say, the variety of tracks that make up a typical Top 40 station's play list.