Warner Bros. Records and Apple today announced that the new double album “Stadium Arcadium” from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and concert tickets for the band’s North America tour will be offered through an exclusive pre-sale on the iTunes Music Store. Beginning today, customers can pre-order “Stadium Arcadium” from iTunes for $19.90 to be downloaded on May 9 when it is released. The band and iTunes have teamed up with Ticketmaster to offer a special concert ticket pre-sale for their upcoming North American tour.
“The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ fans are going to love the combination of music, video and even concert tickets available on the iTunes Music Store,” said Tom Whalley, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros in the press release. “This is the first Red Hot Chili Peppers album in over three years and we think music fans are going to be delighted with what we’ve done with Apple.”
“This is an incredible offering for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes in the press release. “We’ve put together a package that’s unrivaled in the music industry for launching a new album, exclusive videos and a concert tour.”
Beginning today, customers can pre-order a copy of the band’s new double album, “Stadium Arcadium” for $19.90 to be downloaded on May 9 when it is released. Fans that pre-order the double album will receive a download of the new single, “Dani California” immediately at the time of the pre-order. On May 9, fans participating in the pre-order will also receive additional iTunes bonus content, including an exclusive audio interview with the band, a video chronicling the making of “Dani California” and a full color digital booklet.
The band and iTunes have teamed up with Ticketmaster for a special concert ticket pre-sale for their upcoming North American tour. Red Hot Chili Peppers fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will also receive an email with a code that they can use at Ticketmaster.com starting May 9 to purchase concert tickets before they go on sale to the general public on May 13.
In addition to the pre-order and full catalog availability, iTunes is offering a collection of the band’s music videos later this month including their latest video for “Dani California.” Last month, Warner Bros. Records and Red Hot Chili Peppers released the band’s past albums with previously unavailable songs from the band’s vaults exclusively on iTunes.
With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as integrated video and Podcasting support, iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for Mac and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music and videos online. The iTunes Music Store features a selection of over 3,500 music videos, Pixar and Disney short films, a variety of hit TV shows, and more than two million songs from the major music companies and over 1,000 independent labels.
Click to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers catalog on Apple’s iTunes Music Store.
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Sounds great, good step forward. Any sign of something similar for us UK fans?
“wanted”
Hey, am I first???
WTF
So my take on this is that Apple V Apple is going to come out smelling very sweet for BOTH sides.
Why?
Seems Neil Aspinal was seen talking to APPL officials after the trial yesterday, is there a deal happening in the background?
MDN word figure as in ‘go figure’
And we thought that the major labels hated Apple, blah, blah, blah.
To me, this is further proof that they need Apple & iTMS, AND that they recognize it as the way of the future.
Arguing about $0.99 songs? All posturing like a prima donna lead singer.
iPHONE is probably being preserved to be unveiled on April 15TH, the same way they unveiled iMAC intel on January 15th.
Basicly you can also expect iMAC sales figure to be posted on April 15th.
Maybe I’m crazy .. but every song sample in the iTMS, in every genre, that I’ve listened to this morning has started very promptly .. as in immediately. Dunno how it’s been at your house, but that’s new here for me. Used to be that many tracks were horribly slow to start playing. Today they’re all coming on like greased lightening, for me at least. Anybody else?
Can the Red Hot Chili Peppers play something new? I understand that they want to preserve their style, but please, be innovative… Every single album is the same… It’s starting to becme annoying. Sorry for the fans. I was one, and got tired of the same riff….
How about the Powerrangers now on itunes!
??? , man there music isnt all the same. they have evolved and have a greater sense of their own style now. their melodies and chorus’ are as unbeleivable as ever. they are still one of the best bands in rock. imho.
AAArgh again.
Is it just me, no it isn’t just you. I noticed that too. There used to be a few seconds of loading the start of the sample but now it starts immediately. I wonder what they did?
Way cool ndelc.
Good old Apple! Everybody else is screwing around with half-ass digital download attempts and what does Apple do? Apparently what they do is simply make the presentation of their own download system work way better than ever! I love it! heh.
Thanks for the confirmation, eh?
Keep raising the bar, Apple. Keep raising the fscking bar. I love hearing announcements like this. Every month, the iTMS gets cooler and cooler, and the competitors get more suicidal.
And this is interesting because?
Is it just me or do they talk about a limited edition ‘Chili Peppers iPod’!? Have a look in the description on the right…
Just ordered the album from the UK… (I’m using GiftMe.tv) :0
You can download songs from Stadium Arcadium for free on this site:
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