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Pink Floyd emerges victorious in iTunes dispute with EMI
A few days ago we reported that Pink Floyd and their record label EMI were warring over iTunes royalties. Part of the problem was Pink Floyd’s contention that their contract did grant EMI permission to sell their music on a song by song basis via iTunes. While some artists have undoubtedly made millions of dollars [...]
Continue reading...The problem with iTunes LPs
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dan Moren on why iTunes LPs have failed to attract the attention of consumers: At the risk of sounding blindingly obvious, today’s music market isn’t what it was 35 years ago. More than anything, the rise of iTunes and the iPod has made music pervasive in our lives. For most people, listening to music is something [...]
Continue reading...Why Smule won’t be developing mobile apps for Android
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Apple’s App Store is in many ways the lynch-pin that helps the iPhone maintain its status as the top smartphone on the market. While competitors continue to mimic the iPhone’s UI, one area where companies like Google, RIM, and Palm have struggled is in creating an app store comparable to the massively successful iTunes App [...]
Continue reading...Pink Floyd and EMI fight over iTunes royalties
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A few weeks ago, we took a look at a string of artists who were reluctant to make their music available on iTunes because they felt their albums should be experienced in their entirety, and not as the amalgamation of “singles.” Jay-Z summed things up nicely when he articulated why his album “American Gangster” would not [...]
Continue reading...Amazing musical creativity on the iPhone [Video]
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
One guy and an iPhone is all you need for some bomb ass musical creativity these days. The app used below is called Everday Looper and lets users record their voice or a beat and loop it back, and then record something new with the original recording now serving as the background. After a while, [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s iTunes LP initiative was done at the behest of Record Labels
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
According to a recent report from iPodNN, Apple’s iTunes LP initiative was not an in-house idea, but was instead done at the behest of record labels seeking to increase album sales. The creation of iTunes LP was largely the result of major label pressure on Apple, a series of telling leaks has revealed. Music industry contacts claim that the [...]
Continue reading...Apple urges record labels not to participate in Amazon’s “Daily Deal” music promotions
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
An interesting report from Billboard highlights the increasingly heated battle between Amazon and iTunes over music release dates. Apple has reportedly taken umbrage with Amazon’s “Daily Deal” promotion wherein Amazon will make an album available for purchase one day prior to the street launch date while also running banners advertising the early release date on artist websites, MySpace pages, [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs calls iTunes winner who responds with “Yeah right, who is this really?”
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Per usual, Apple held a contest in honor of its 10 billionth downloaded song, with a $10,000 iTunes gift card being awarded to the lucky downloader, Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia. Sulcer was also the recipient of a personal phone call from none other than Steve Jobs, though Sulcer at first believed someone was playing a prank on him. “He [...]
Continue reading...iTunes nets 10 billionth song download
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
While the iTunes App Store is busy getting all the accolades and causing competitors to have fits, the iTunes Music Store has quietly been trucking along, ratcheting up song download after download. Today, Apple announced that iTunes has now served over 10 billion song downloads. The individual who made the 10 billionth download, who has [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s success is rooted in their attention to detail
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In Gordon Ramsey’s auto-biography, the accomplished chef (who you might recognize as the guy screaming on Hell’s Kitchen) articulated why he’s obsessed with making sure that everything about a dish is absolutely perfect, all the way down to the most excruciatingly minute detail. It doesn’t matter how amazing the steak is, if it’s served on a [...]
Continue reading...Musical acts not on iTunes
Sunday, February 14, 2010
With the iTunes Music Store approaching its 10 Billionth download, we thought it’d be a good time to go back and take a look at some of the high profile musical acts who still refuse, for one reason or another, to make their musical libraries available on iTunes. Now everyone knows that the most high profile [...]
Continue reading...Apple starts the countdown to 10 billion downloaded songs on iTunes
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Apple today on iTunes hoisted up a new contest called “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs”, the winner of which will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. The prize will be awarded for the entry (either through a song download or through the non-purchase online entry) sent immediately following the download of the 9,999,999,999th song. The potential [...]
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