Rolling Stone often publishes lists of songs. Songs with place names, songs about drugs, songs about people. Today their list is songs that ask questions.

Songs with question marks in their names always stick out to me, because you can't (in Windows) name an MP3 with a question mark in it.

Rolling Stone:

Perhaps proving that both Rock Band and Guitar Hero as capable of selling music as an iTunes or Amazon, sales of Mötley Crüe's new single "Saints of Los Angeles" have sold five times more copies for Rock Band as it did on iTunes after a month. But sales of "Saints of Los Angeles" aren't just an aberration: Sales of Black Tide's "Shockwave" boast similar stats, with Rock Band’s sales trumping iTunes by ten times.

What's even more interesting is that you can't download Rock Band's music to your music player or anywhere else. You can only play it in-game.

But the article is specifically on singles sales. I wonder how well the albums these songs are on have sold?

Or perhaps it just shows that although you can pirate the music, you can't (as easily) pirate the interactivity you get when you buy the Rock Band track (split into it's drum, guitar, bass parts). So it sells better.

Or maybe they're not buying the music, they're buying another track to Rock Band on. Maybe they just don't care what the music is?