Happy 8th birthday iPod!
By Elizabeth Fish | Published On October 23, 2009 | In Music
Friday marks the 8th birthday of Apple’s iPod, the most popular line of MP3 players in the world.
The iPod has seen many transformations in its eight years. From the first generation’s bulky, brick-like shape, 5GB memory, and many unneeded buttons (and a hefty price tag of £240), the iPod now boasts colour and touch screens, video playback, up to 160GB of space, a whole rainbow of colours, and, most recently, a video camera in the iPod nano.
Obviously, with a great product comes a great advert. Always the Apple way, the music from the adverts are very catchy. We celebrate iPod’s anniversary with a countdown of all the music used in the iPod ads.
If you have Spotify, you can check out our playlist with all of the songs.
2009
Miss Li - Bourgeois Shangri-La
Tommy Sparks – She’s Got Me Dancing
Sia – Buttons
2008
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Round the Bend
Chairlift – Bruises
No You Girls – Franz Ferdinand
Brendan Benson – What I’m looking for
2007
CSS – Music is my Hot Sex
Feist – 1234
The Bird and Bee – La La La
2006
Prototypes – Who’s Gonna Sing?
Cut Chemist – The Audience is Listening
Bob Dylan – Someday Baby
Rinôçérôse – Cubicle
2005
Wynton Marsalis – Sparks
U2 – Origin of the Species
The Resource – Gimme That
Daft Punk – Technologic
Caesars – Jerk It out
The Vines – Ride
2004
Steriogram – Walkie Talkie Man
2003
Jet – Are you gonna be my girl
2001
The Propellaheads – Take California
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