Apple Music

Apple Computer has begun bundling downloadable music videos on its online music service, slowly entering a new direction that could easily expand into all types of video services. With the debut of its iTunes version 4.8 software, announced Monday, Apple quietly began selling music videos via its iTunes Music Store (iTMS) late Monday, together with…

Apple announced Thursday that it had sold the 150 millionth download through the iTunes Music Store (iTMS) since its launch in April of 2003. The company also says that customers are now downloading some four million songs per week, putting the company on track to sell 200 million songs per year. “Crossing 150 million downloads…

Apple has announced that its European iTunes Music Stores — UK, France, and Germany — sold more than 800,000 songs in its first week of operations. The company’s press release includes a direct challenge to heretofore European market leader OD2, claiming that Apple’s UK store sold more than 16 times the UK-based OD2 in the…

Apple Computer will announce June 15 the launch of its European version of the online iTunes Music Store, sources have confirmed to The Mac Observer. To solidify the report of the iTMS European launch, journalists have also begun receiving invitations to the press event in London, suggesting in its language that such an announcement is…

Apple Computer is categorically denying a published report that it plans to raise prices on some music tracks on its iTunes Music Store to US$1.25 a song. A story in Friday’s New York Post quoted unnamed sources as saying five major record labels – EMI, Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), Sony, Universal and Warner – have…

Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or you’ll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin’. The Times They…

Make it 31. We’re adding a new Death Knell to the Apple Death Knell Counter, though this one is a pronouncement for the iTunes Music Store (iTMS), and not Apple itself, and it comes to us from The Register. The Reg’s Andrew Orlowski, a long-time Apple watcher, says that the iTMS is soon to be…

Napster 2 was to be the great bugaboo and nemesis of Apple’s iTunes Music Store (iTMS). When Roxio announced its intention to use the Napster brand name to launch a music download service, many hailed the Napster name as potentially being the biggest brand in the music download business. Others, including The Mac Observer, said…

"Our artists would rather not contribute to the demise of the album format," said Mark Reiter, with Q Prime Management Co., which manages the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica and several other artists. "We can’t let a distributor dictate the way our artists sell their music," Reiter said, adding that the business terms were otherwise…

Microsoft is quietly preparing a music service of it’s own that will compete with the iTunes Music Store (iMS), according to a C|Net report from Evan Hansen. The service, originally supposed to be revealed back in January of this year, will most likely be a subscription-based model, similar to other label-sponsored services like PressPlay and…

Apple has made it official. The company has announced that more than one million songs have been purchased online in the new iTunes Music Store. The company also says that half of the 200,000 titles that are available were purchased at least once. Backing up the announcement is statements of support from Roger Ames, chairman…

Music & Piracy, Who’s Right, Who Should Win July 25th, 2000 Napster faces charges for copyright violation since people can download MP3 files as "free music" using the Napster system to find what they want from all kinds of servers. This whole issue involves serious thinking about present copyright laws and potential ways to promote…