For about ten dollars, Sony Music Entertainment’s two-disc, 37-track Songs for Japan (click on image to buy from Amazon.com), a recording industry compilation that donates 100 percent of net revenues to the Japanese Red Cross, is a bargain that helps a noble people in a great nation. Neatly arranged in clusters of recent and classic pop, country, and rock music, the straightforward Songs for Japan includes “Imagine” by John Lennon, “Sober” by Pink, and “By Your Side” by Sade. It also features “Run to You” by Lady Antebellum, “Waiting on the World to Change” by John Mayer and “Better in Time” by Leona Lewis. Add to those fine tunes songs written or performed by Adele, Queen, Michael Buble, Sting, Elton John, Ne-Yo, Norah Jones, Josh Groban, Lady Gaga, Bob Dylan, Justin Bieber, Richard Marx, and other household names and you have a good collection that ought to provide enough of something for everyone to make this charity album a decent buy. I’ve enjoyed many of these songs on the radio, such as Foo Fighters’ “My Hero”, “Save Me” by Nicki Minaj and “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon, which I find irresistibly repeatable, which I wouldn’t necessarily want to buy, and Songs for Japan delivers, especially as an accompaniment for driving. Among my favorite tracks are the effervescent anthem “Firework” by tattooed Katy Perry (which led me to the cleverly conceived and executed video, shot in the formerly Communist Budapest, Hungary), and the lush, romantic “If I Could Be Where You Are” by Enya. Consider this CD, an expenditure of less than 30 cents per song at the current price, an investment in a sampling of some new music and help for our friends in Japan.