Apple:
The iTunes Store — now with over 50 million customers — has sold over four billion songs. In fact, it sold an incredible 20 million songs on Christmas Day 2007 alone.
Now they only need to convince the some 50+ million more iPod owners on paying for something they are getting for free(by stealing that is…duh!).
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Holy Crap! iTunes Now Number Two Music Retailer in the US
Napster not even cool in Wall Street
Napster grew a -1% in subscriptions in the last quarter. Soon they’ll be trading below a buck(closing price: 1.73) and probably move well below the “penny stock” qualifications (if that’s even possible).
What I am really curious about is if Seth Green’s character for the upcoming movie “The Brazilian Job” will still claim to be the [...]
“Total Music” (NOT!!!)
I am starting to notice that this blog is becoming a cry out to the music industry. Oh well…After reading about the “Total Music” initiative from Universal’s CEO I finally saw how stupid old media can be(and I though Ringles were as stupid as it gets). It’s seems the record labels are a bunch of [...]
Another one bites to dust…
And another one does…Yes another mayor music group has ditched the mayors and going solo. Nine Inch Nails (NIN) are announcing that they are officially free agents. It wouldn’t be a surprise that they would distribute their album just like Radiohead. The recent lawsuit victory for $220,000 over 24 pirated songs will probably be the [...]
I just bought a Rainbow!
I just pre-ordered Radiohead’s latest controversial album (Rainbow) for just 1.45 pounds. I am not a cheap bastard! I went to iTunes and checked my library and found I had only three of their previous songs. Therefore I decided to pay to actually see if I like them. That comes out to roughly $0.25 cents [...]
Go Radiohead!!!
By now most of you must have heard that the band Radiohead decided to offer two versions of their upcoming album: physical boxset and digital version. What’s controversial about all this is that they decided to go with “what is it worth to you” approach…basically you pay what you want! This must be a mayor [...]