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Alicia Keys’ Appearance on “The Voice” Sends Four of Her Old Hits Up the iTunes Charts

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Was it a good idea for Alicia Keys to join “The Voice”on NBC? By the looks of the iTunes charts, I’d say the answer is Yes.

Since “The Voice” aired on Tuesday night, Keys has sent four old songs of hers up the charts. Currently “If I Ain’t Got You,” “No One,” “Fallin,” and “Girl on Fire” are lodged in the top 100 among current hits. The latter song is Number 15.

Keys isn’t the only artist with a classic hit comeback on the iTunes Top 100. Is it just that music today is so bad? But Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Denver also have old hits in top 100. There are also cover versions of “The Sound of Silence” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.”

What’s causing all this? Weird algorithm? Deep discounts? Payola? I don’t know. But with new music coming from Sting, the Pretenders, Van Morrison and the Weeknd, and others, it would be nice to see those artists up there with new hits.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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