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Apple iTunes Music Store changing the way music is marketed

Thursday, April 29, 2004 · 8:58 am · 32 Comments

“iTunes is changing the way music is marketed. Consumers can now find online remixes of popular songs, live performances, singles released in-between CD cycles to keep an artist fresh in fans’ minds. You’ll be out of luck scouring the record bins for an ‘Ike & Tina Turner’ disc, but you’ll be have no trouble downloading such classics as “Proud Mary’ on iTunes,” Dawn C. Chmielewski writes for Knight Ridder News.

“In fact, only one-third of the songs sold on iTunes are Top 20 hits. Larry Kenswil, president of Universal Music’s eLabs, said his label would soon begin experimenting with world music

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Mac Yak

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:12 am · Reply

World music, huh? & yet iTMS is STILL only available in the U.S.?! C’mon, Apple, let’s get with it! Open it up to Canada and overseas already! Jeez Louise! How many times does it need to be said?!?!

First post?
Dave H

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:13 am · Reply

The Billboard charts today are a joke. How can you have a chart based on radio airplay rather than sales when one company effectively controls what the stations play? No wonder only 1/3 of the music is Top 20. The Top 20 itself is artificial and not based on what people want to hear.
iSteve

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:19 am · Reply

I love the Beatles and Madonna but they need to get over their objections to the downloads. Yes, the album format will go away just as CDs fade.

However, I’ve spent more money on music in the last year than in the prior 5-6 years combined. Probably 90% were singles but the point is I spent far more money – mostly because I could get the singles that I wanted.
KennyLucius

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:20 am · Reply

Dave H: It wasn’t always so. The guy browsing the billboard charts from the 50s and 60s isn’t seeing Clearchannel’s picks.
theloniusMac

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:24 am · Reply

Since all the hoopla started, I can never connect to the freaking music store anymore. Freaking servers seem overwhelmed.
One guy from Finland

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:31 am · Reply

Freaking servers Watch out for the language! Those are G5�s after all
One guy from Finland

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:35 am · Reply

Dave H
I actually searched one song from the billboard list and found it.
It is nice that there is some kind records that narrows little your search if you can�t remember something. You remember that it was somewhere there, but you can�t remember who and what was the name of that song.
steve m

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:39 am · Reply

mac yak, apple IS WORKING to open iTMS internationally….but there are legal roadblocks to doing so throughout the rest of the world. If copy right liscensing wasn’t so messed up already I’m sure it would already be global. stop blaming apple for the legal mess that gov’t's elsewhere have created.
One guy from Finland

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:39 am · Reply

One person compared Kazaa with 16 million users to iTMS with 2.7 million users and said that Apple is loosing.
I wrote to him and asked that what he77 is he counting?
16 million users all over the world versus 2.7 only in the usa.
ie over 6 billion people versus less than 300 million.
He should wait when the iTMS Europe, iTMS Japan, iTMS Canada, iTMS India and iTMS China etc… kicks in
One guy from Finland

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:40 am · Reply

Oops… 2.7 million of course
That was almost like Steve and Jonathan + part of Schiller
Dave H

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 10:43 am · Reply

Most of Schiller, or he’s a very lucky man
China Mac Man

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:18 am · Reply

“iTMS China”?

Not very likely. At least not far many many years. For a buck a download, you can go into a record store and buy an entire bootleged CD for LESS than a buck. These are “good” bootlegs too. You couldn’t tell from just looking at the package that they were. It’ll take YEARS for the WTO agreement on copyrights to be fully implemented in China. Until then, there is no way any Chinese would pay a buck for just one song.
maczac

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:27 am · Reply

“world music” . . . this is much bigger than some of you may think. The introduction of new genres of international music will increase iTunes usage by factors, not fractions. This is a great idea.

theloniusMac, wow, never a problem here. I am sorry to hear that. Run a traceroute and see if you are getting bottlenecked along the way to the ITMS.

Zac
darknite

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:31 am · Reply

iSteve,

Your kind are going to be the death of the labels and RIAA. They don’t care if you’ve purchased more in the last 6 months than in the last six years combined. They are ticked that you got to control what songs you wanted, and how you got them. They are even more ticked that you only paid .99 for each song, rather than buying an entire CD at $18 for the same one song.

BTW, the fact that “your kind” are going to be the death of the labels, RIAA, and music distribution, not to mention artist (non) payment as we know it today is a very good thing, keep upthe good work.
Not a fin

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:36 am · Reply

One Guy From Finland,

The difference between 16 million Kazaa users and 2.7 million ITMS users is the differene between thieves and paying customers. The former don’t count and the latter are the future.
Joe McConnel

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:59 am · Reply

Wired says 22 million US kazaa users, 60 million worldwide:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/kazaa.html
Joe McConnel

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 12:02 pm · Reply

and that is a year ago…..there might be fewer now in the US because of RIAA actions, maybe more……….
Peter

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 12:18 pm · Reply

All you need to use iTMS is have a credit card that has a billing address in the United States. I have used iTMS when I was in Japan.
Ryan

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 12:54 pm · Reply

Okay, then… Kazaa: 22 million users, iTMS: 2.7 million

So iTMS usership is at 10% of Kazaa? Isn’t that pretty impressive?
One guy from Finland

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 1:32 pm · Reply

Well that iTMS China is little too far
There is over 6,314,000,000 people in the world.
If there is 60 million Kazaa users worldwide that is 0,9502692 % of the worlds population.
There is over 291,500,000 people living in the usa.
If there is 2,7 million iTunes users usa wide that is 0,926243 % of the population in the new colony.
So actually this writer was right. Kazaa has more users both in amount and relatively than iTunes Music Store.
iTunes needs 70 036 people more to beat the Kazaa relatively.
Europe has 727 million people from where European Union is 450 million people.
iTunes has to get 4 276 211 people to use the service in the EU so that it can beat the Kazaa.

Canada = 31 600 000 people. Japan = 127 500 000 people. Latin America + Caribbean 540 000 000 people. Europe = 727 000 000 people. Africa = 861 000 000 people. India = 1 068 600 000 people. China = 1 288 700 000 people. + Rest of the world. Calculate from these figures.

BTW Somebody could tell to that junior bush that his wet dream about world domination is not going to be successful

More figures and links and things
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/edu_lit_tot_pop
http://us.rediff.com/money/2003/oct/07corrupt.htm
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/cri_mur_wit_fir_cap
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_gdp_cap
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_lif_exp_at_bir_tot_pop
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_exp_dol_fig
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_man_fit_for_mil_ser_mal_age_154