Singing "Hallelujah"
So it’s been established before that when songs are performed by the “American Idol” contestants, there is a bump in sales for the original recording, but at no point has this been more evident than this past week.
After contestant Jason Castro sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (whose most popular version was recorded by the late Jeff Buckley), sales went apeshit.
Buckley’s nearly 15-year old rendition of the song zoomed to the top of iTunes’ digital singles chart, […]