A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

IF YOU SEEK BRITNEY: One of the reasons artists like to have their songs featured on Glee is that in addition to whatever royalty they get from the Glee cast version downloads (I'm not sure how much that winds up being for performers who do not have writing credits, though) is that it juices downloads of the original versions. Interestingly, though, even though Gleeified Britney occupies the #2, #12, #15, #16, and #20 slots on iTunes right now (with another 7 Glee songs on the Hot 200), the highest ranking original Britney song? "Toxic" at #80 ("Stronger" is at #163 and "Slave 4 U" at #167). On the other hand? Paramore's "The Only Exception" (the one non-Britney song in Tuesday's episode) might be top 10 if all versions were considered (the single version is at #47, and the album version at #25), and "Billionaire" is still at #67 (explicit) and #143 (clean), with the Glee version at #55. Is this because folks already owned the Britney songs or because people just didn't give a damn about having her original versions?