Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe"

I was very surprised today to see that this recent #1 hit was actually released as a commercial CD single here in America. I got mine at Toys R Us today, but I don't think it was a Toys R Us exclusive. This is the first really popular domestic CD single I can think of that's been released in the US since Lady Gaga's "Born this Way."

It's a two-track single, both tracks lossless (thankfully), with the "B-side" being a dance version of "Both Sides Now."

1. Call Me Maybe (actual 3:13)
2. Both Sides Now (actual 3:52)

Hmm, interesting, Paul. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" has apparently been pulled now, because it's no longer on Walmart's website (or Amazon's, where I read it was also offered). But I did find the others on Walmart.com, except for Payphone, which is readily available on Ebay for not much money. I also didn't know there was a Phil Phllips EP out.

I hope you'll post of any new domestic CD singles you hear about. Maybe I should start a thread on the topic of "current CD singles"?

Picked up most of the ones you listed above last night, Paul. The good news is they're ALL lossless! I'll post my findings on them in a new thread on the topic of current CD singles late tonight.

Though it was QUITE the ordeal to find them, because neither I nor most of the employees knew they were in the "$5 or less" bin. Yes, Walmart, that's a great place to put the current #1 hit single -- in a gigantic bin, haphazardly buried among a couple thousand other budget CDs. I'm sure you'll sell a lot of them.

After not finding any of these singles on the shelves at the Duarte Walmart, I went to the 24-hour Glendora Walmart at about 9:30 p.m., dug through that bin for about 45 minutes, and came out with most of what I wanted, except for the Taylor Swift. Which was irritating, because the store inventory said they had 12 copies in stock, and no one knew where they were. The very helpful employees (really, that's not sarcasm) looked everywhere, including the stock room, and found nothing.

So I returned to the Duarte Walmart on my way back home. I hadn't known the singles would be in the $5 bin when I'd been there earlier. (The employees at that particular Walmart don't know a damn thing, not to mention that half of them look like they just got out of a halfway house.) Well, guess what was sitting right on top of the bin -- a Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." So I got that and the Phillip Phillips EP.

Edited by Brian W.

Me too. I think it would be great if we could collectively put together a comprehensive list of Top 40 songs that have been made available on a commercial CD single release since 2000.