Apple today announced the launch of the iTunes Store in Mexico with an incredible selection of Mexican and international music from all the major labels and hundreds of independent labels. Launching with a catalog of millions of songs, the iTunes Store in Mexico features Mexican artists including Paulina Rubio, Vicente Fernandez and Zoe and a wide range of international artists including Shakira, Lady Gaga, Green Day and thousands more. With most songs priced at 12 pesos and most albums at 120 pesos, the iTunes Store in Mexico is the best way for Mac and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.
“The iTunes Store in Mexico is off to a great start with music from all of the majors and hundreds of indie labels,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services, in the press release. “And the revolutionary App Store in Mexico gets bigger and better with great new apps using amazing new features, and we can’t wait to see what developers come up with next.”
The iTunes Store in Mexico joins the revolutionary App Store, which has more than 65,000 applications available to consumers in 77 countries, reaching tens of millions of iPhone and iPod touch users around the world. Customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion apps and the recently released iPhone OS 3.0 software update includes over 100 new features like Cut, Copy and Paste; Spotlight search; landscape keyboard and view; and expanded parental controls. Apps from the App Store work with both iPod touch and iPhone, including the new iPhone 3GS, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.
The iTunes Store offers music from all of the major labels and hundreds of independent labels including Warner Music, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music and Universal Music Group. All music on iTunes is available in iTunes Plus, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings. iTunes customers can also choose to download their favorite songs from the world’s largest online music catalog directly onto their iPhone over their 3G network for the same price as downloading to their computer. A great selection of music videos is also available for purchase and download, with most priced at 24 pesos.
Apple has made it easy for music fans in Mexico to purchase and enjoy music with iTunes Gift Cards, which can be purchased at national retailers including Liverpool, Mixup, Office Depot, El Palacio de Hierro, Sanborns and also at iShop, iStore and MacStore locations. iTunes Gift Cards are available in denominations of 200, 300 and 600 pesos.
Available starting today, exclusively on iTunes, fans can Countdown to the release of highly-anticipated new albums from Nelly Furtado, Sean Kingston and Jesse & Joy by purchasing and downloading advance songs from the albums as they are released on iTunes. Fans can then buy the albums on their release date at a reduced price based on songs they’ve already purchased with Complete My Album. Also, exclusive iTunes Live Sessions are available from Mexican artists including Plastilina Mosh and Motel, and also from a wide selection of international artists. And the iTunes Podcast Directory features over 150,000 free podcasts, including featured Mexican podcasts from Televisa, MVS Television, El Universal and Grupo Reforma.
iTunes 8.2 for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Store and is available as a free download from www.itunes.com/mexico. iTunes purchases require a valid credit card with a billing address in Mexico or an official iTunes Gift Card.
Source: Apple Inc.
Me alegra por los hermanos latinoamericanos de Méjico! Me gustaría ver el iTunes Store en el resto de lationamérica ahora.
Wow, I would have thought they would have had the iTunes Store in Mexico for a while already. About time.
First post?
Man am I blind.
…and first post goes to: Latino Boy!
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This is muy bien! Now me and 10 million other mexicans that intend to illegally invade the United States this year can do so with a new iPhone app called “Alien Scout”.
It gives you realtime data on the locations of all U.S. border patrols, as well as updated information on the best fence holes to use in your crossover, and then, one you’re in like Flynn, the nearest government agency to apply for handouts funded by hardworking U.S. taxpayers.
Arriva!
Ah great! The second largest collection of annoying mariachi bands on the planet. Second to the Mission district in SF that is.
China is coming soon!
@jose
nice racist attitude
I doubt anyone coming across the border has an iPhone, except the smugglers
Put in a guest worker program, (like Canada) and the problem will go away
or with Obamas leadership, the jobs will disappear , and the problem will go away
Playa Del Carmen Mexico
Great! Just in time for all of the American doctors that will be moving there soon…
I WANT GOOGLE VOICE FOR iPHONE!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!
¡Finalmente!
Bienvenida la iTunes Store a México.
There is lots of people here buying overpriced iTunes gift cards in order to get music, TV shows etc.
The price taking in count the current change, is about 88 or 89¢ US. With the overpriced iTunes cards plus the difference in official price, mexicans used to pay some 20 to 30% more, at least.
¡Viva México!
@TowerTone
You got that right!
The stocks in Mexican private hospitals and Insurance are booming!
I had a hip replacement in 2004 at the clinica Meridia, my Dr. was a graduate of John Hopkins, at the time there were 7 Mexicans, 3 Canadians and myself (USA) having surgery. The Canadians all had coverage, but a 2 year wait in Canada ! they choose to come here and spend $6,000.00 USD (total) for the replacement.
Bueno! Could Cantinflas be included too? One can dream..
@ HotinPlaya
How is noting that millions of Mexicans crossing the border into our country racist. It is fact. If you state the obvious then you are Racist. Political Correctness is destroying our country.
Viva La Macintosh.
Yes, HotinPlaya
I hear their new tourism slogan is
“Mexico: It’s Here to be Hip!”
and luckily their poor will be covered here.
GREAT post José
HotinPlaya never let’s facts get in it’s way. HotinPlaya just cries foul because it has no argument in which to counter.
@ Planet,
The reason there is no argument is because, quite simply, there is no argument. What he says is the truth.
I think it’s a good idea and I hope everyone enjoys it.
I for one am very disappointed! Sure, it is great to have Mexican music, and I have a large collection of same. But I was hoping for the same selection afforded residents of the USA, which is not limited to music in English, or music made in the USA! Is Apple really of the belief that Mexican users only want Spanish music??! The young man who sells me my newspaper each morning does not like my “tropical” iPod selections, but prefers Madonna! He, like I, find musica a good way to improve one’s language learning skills. But there are times when I still want the song in the original language, regardless of whether that is Schubert’s German or Oreja de Van Gogh’s Spanish.
I am glad I only bought the 200 peso card, for I doubt I will use it up that quickly.
I must correct myself, in part. Since writing earlier, I have found far more music than I had expected, after my initial “look see.” But when it comes to movies and TV, I believe the division is still there. I hope someone can correct me here.
Ohh no, the itunes server will crash once they load the “Banda Limon” and regueton music crap…
RL, et al
Is not “what” was said
But “way” it was said
BC
We will see how this fairs. In Mexico, buying pirated material is the norm. Will Mexicans all of a sudden start buying music and movies? I am not so sure. I would guess the convince will a factor, but integrity in Mexico has always been in short supply.
@Mac-nugget
“integrity in Mexico has always been in short supply”??!! Well, Mexico may have some problems in the pirating area, but the USA has more than it’s fair shares of Bernie Madoff’s. After living in Mexico for over 10 years, I find much more integrity here than I did in the USA. My home has not been burglarized once, yet it was becoming a yearly event in SF.
maachaya, I was born in Mexico, I lived there for more then 22 years. Comparing the US to Mexico on integrity is ludicrous. Corruption has permeated every single corner of every single public office. When you get your divers licenses, the only question you have to answer is whether you want to take the exam or not. When the police stops you, you pay your fine on the spot in the form of a bribe. EVERY TIME! If you ask to get the ticket, you are likely to have to right your own ticket, because you have a good chance that the official does not know how to even wright.
I am sorry to hear about your house being burglarized but at least you are not getting kidnapped and body part are being mailed to your relatives to hasten the ransom transaction. I have several close friends that have lost loved ones do to the increasing security problem in Mexico, one got shot evending a kidnapping, he had already gotten away, but they still pummeled in a shower of bullets. Sure, there is a lot of crime in the US, gun laws almost insure that everybody who want a gun, can get one. In Mexico, the only permitted caliber for licensing a hand gun is 22 mm. Now, you think all the noise you here about the drug lords coming to power was realised using 22 caliber hand guns?
One more point, all the music lovers that I know in Mexico have large licit music collections, all of them. Why would they spend money to replace what they already got for free?