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According to DSD, it is currently selling at 2.7x the pace of Katy Perry&#8217;s &#8220;Dark Horse (featuring Juicy J)&#8221; and John Legend&#8217;s &#8220;All of Me,&#8221; which are going back-and-forth between second and third place.<\/p>\n<p>Idina Menzel&#8217;s &#8220;Let it Go,&#8221; which took home the Oscar for Best Song, has advanced into the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Because &#8220;Happy&#8221; and &#8220;Let it Go&#8221; were resonating with buyers prior to Sunday&#8217;s ceremony, their gains&#8211;while significant commercially&#8211;do not necessarily look colossal in terms of chart rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The gains for fellow nominees &#8220;Ordinary Love&#8221; and &#8220;The Moon Song&#8221; are impressive under both criteria.<\/p>\n<p>U2&#8217;s &#8220;Love,&#8221; which comes from the &#8220;Mandela&#8221; soundtrack, has ascended into the top ten of the iTunes single sales chart.  At press time, the song had gone as high as #8 on the digital retailer&#8217;s list.<\/p>\n<p>Performed as a duet between Karen O and Ezra Koenig, &#8220;Moon,&#8221; from the &#8220;Her&#8221; soundtrack, had lept to number twenty four by press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1050,1047],"tags":[1762,1317,1543,1503,1748,1763,1749,1523,1764,1373,1761,1560],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Let it Go,&quot; &quot;Ordinary Love&quot; Improve iTunes Sales After Oscars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Frozen&quot; soundtrack gem &quot;Let it Go&quot; was the only one to win an Oscar, but all four Best Song Nominees are riding high after Sunday&#039;s Academy Awards\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/03\/03\/let-go-ordinary-love-improve-itunes-sales-oscars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Let it Go,&quot; &quot;Ordinary Love&quot; Improve iTunes Sales After Oscars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&quot;Frozen&quot; soundtrack gem &quot;Let it Go&quot; was the only one to win an Oscar, but all four Best Song Nominees are riding high after Sunday&#039;s Academy Awards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/03\/03\/let-go-ordinary-love-improve-itunes-sales-oscars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-03-03T15:34:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/03\/03\/let-go-ordinary-love-improve-itunes-sales-oscars\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/03\/03\/let-go-ordinary-love-improve-itunes-sales-oscars\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Let it Go,\\\" \\\"Ordinary Love\\\" Improve iTunes Sales After Oscars\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-03T15:34:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-03-03T15:34:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"\\\"Frozen\\\" soundtrack gem \\\"Let it Go\\\" was the only one to win an Oscar, but all four Best Song Nominees are riding high after Sunday's Academy Awards\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/03\/03\/let-go-ordinary-love-improve-itunes-sales-oscars\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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