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mantecol

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  1. I maybe see what you guys are saying about the song being incorrectly listed as an album. If you click on "TOP SONGS" in the iTunes desktop application, "Set Fire To the Rain" is currently showing up at #101. In the Name column is "Set Fire To the Rain (The Voice Performance) - Single", which is actually the album's name. And the Album column is blank for this song. If you click on the right and "copy link", you get the link below, which is actually the link to his album. None of the other The Voice singles are like this; they are all normal. So somehow his album is charting on the songs chart. Not sure what to make of that, but it's definitely still true that the song is being blocked from showing up in songs results (see the links I posted earlier). https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/set-fire-to-rain-voice-performance/id879954148 Work time now--we'll see how this shakes out tonight! Hopefully the silver lining for Josh is that he ends up with a better deal than he would have if he had won.
  2. Not sure if it really matters, but I don't think this is quite the problem. All The Voice singles are released as songs on 1-track albums of the same name, and Set Fire To the Rain is no different (as I showed above). However, the Set Fire To the Rain song is not showing up in any iTunes song results. It looks like the song is being explicitly blocked, not miscategorized. The text on iTunes says that iTunes purchases only count if they occur between 9:55 PM EST and 12:00 AM (sic - they mean noon). So there is some sort of blocking that occurs prior to that, and prevents songs from charting before the show ends. I am guessing they "forgot" to remove it for Josh's song.
  3. My guess is: if iTunes/NBC acknowledge this at all, they will say something like: Songs are blocked until the end of the show, and we forgot to take the final song (Josh's) off the block list. But we are sure this didn't affect the outcome of the show. They can only be sure of that if Josh wins in spite of this setback! Even if this was an accident, it became intentional the second they let it persist more than 20 minutes. There is no way it should take this long to fix. Even in the insanely improbable case that there is only 1 person who knows how to fix this and he lives 2 hours out of town with no telephone or internet, they have had enough time to drive to his house, knock on his door, and drive him back to the city to fix it. No excuse.
  4. https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topsongs/limit=400/json You can see the top 400 songs from this link. Adele's version of the song shows up at 295, but Josh's is nowhere to be found. Every other The Voice song of his is on the list. Impossible that this is due to low popularity of the song.
  5. Man, there is something really sinister going on. When you search for "Josh Kaufman" in the Windows iTunes application, "Set Fire To the Rain" does not show up in his songs list. It is down below in his Album list, however. I saw a theory on Television Without Pity that the song was incorrectly listed as an album, but if you look at iTunes' underlying API, there is an entry for the song that looks totally normal. So in the deepest depths of their system, everything is listed just fine. Album: https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=879954148 Song: https://itunes.apple.com/us/lookup?id=879954149 When you search for his songs using their search API, again "Set Fire To the Rain" does not appear at all, even with a max limit of 200 (he has 19 results total). I can't think of any reason for this. Even if had only gotten 1 download total, it should show up. When you search for josh+kaufman+the+voice vs. christina+grimmie+the+voice vs. jake+worthington+the+voice, Christina and Jake have 11 results, whereas Josh only has 10. Can anyone see anything that I missed? It looks like something is specifically blocking Set Fire To the Rain from showing up in Josh's song results, and I don't think it's just that it's the lowest ranked song of the night. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets "fixed" overnight once the damage has been done, so that these claims are harder to confirm. We'll see in the morning! It's getting harder to deny that this show isn't rigged, what with this treatment of Josh, and the plethora of "glitches" Kristen went through.
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