The music revolution will be downloaded. Period.

One great nugget of evidence supporting that is the rise of French singer Yael Naim, whose single "New Soul" debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard singles charts this week on the strength of digital sales.

Naim is of French-Jewish heritage, and she sings as if she's just taken an English-as-second-language class. It adds a charm to the song in terms of giving the listener warm fuzzies. But it's also kind of annoying and whiny.

The popularity of this song exploded after an advertisement for a MacBook Air laptop featured it. And those Mac folks are always looking for the edgy, the quirky, and God bless 'em for it.