Live Nation is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries. During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com.
“We are thrilled to offer artists a new high-quality platform to share the magic of their live shows with their fans,” said Michael Rapino, President and Chief Executive Officer of Live Nation.
Live Nation, through its Studios division, regularly records concerts in more than 80 of its venues, which have been transformed into next-generation “wired” live recording studios, and will now offer a variety of them for purchase and download exclusively on iTunes. The program extends the live concert experience well beyond the show itself, giving customers exclusive content at a great value and opening a new avenue for touring artists to easily offer audio and video recordings of live concerts directly to their fans, creating new sources of revenue for Live Nation and its partners – artists, labels and music publishers.
To coincide with the program’s launch, iTunes has added a new area dedicated exclusively to live recordings. See it here.
Source: Live Nation
Sounds a lot more promising than the Apple and Damn Nation launch that bombed a few weeks back.
I’d be more interested in iTunes putting the Ticketmaster crime syndicate out of business.
Not currently available in the Ireland Store…
Another Tipping Point..
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Apple now starts offering product that the recording brain dead thieving recording companies can not.
This looks like a great service, hopefully it will live up to expectations.
Here at The Music Void we have also explored this new venture: http://bit.ly/4KXm3W