So another Christmas comes to an end and Amazon are doing so much business they won’t even tell us how much business they are doing. But trust me –it’s a lot, lot, lot.
With that in mind Hypebot put together Amazon’s hits of the season (here) and we reprint it though what are we learning exactly, right?
“•Prime Music users streamed Christmas by Michael Bublé; Greatest Hits by Journey; All the Little Lights by Passenger most often
- CD buyers preferred That’s Christmas to Me by Pentatonix; 1989 by Taylor Swift; Frozen Karaoke from Disney’s Karaoke Series
- MP3 buyers most often downloaded That’s Christmas To Me by Pentatonix; 1989 by Taylor Swift; Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters”
OK, well, I guess, Pentatonix is a sort of crossover Luddite hit: I mean, if you don’t believe in musical instruments, why would you believe in file sharing, right? And Taylor is a pain in the ass any way. Frozen Karaoke? I’m all for it.
What else? “More than 10 million worldwide took advantage of a free trial to use Amazon’s Prime services for the first time…”
I was reading about mercenary armies in the post-Afghanistan age and it seems to me all tied up in drones and Amazon and prime shipping. At what point will you be able to buy and army and have it shipped overnight to Lincoln, Nebraska? In the mid-ages, the landed gentry were more important than merchants and businessmen because merchants and businessmen could take their business elsewhere but those who lived by the land were married to the land and were considered more trustworthy.
It seems to me that the future of war will have mercenary armies supplied by Amazon to fight on behalf of the interests of big business… and the new Pentatonix album.
