“The iTunes Store will not be offering downloads from Michael Jackson’s [first] posthumous album, This Is It, according to confidential information leaked late Tuesday,” Paul Resnikoff reports for Digital Music News.
“The big release – a stand-alone, double-disc audio set – hits October 26th throughout the world, and the 27th in North America,” Resnikoff reports. “The double-disc comes ahead of the theatrical and DVD release of Michael Jackson’s This Is It, a compilation of rehearsal footage for the O2 dates that never happened.”
“Sources close to the release noted that Sony Music Entertainment and the Jackson estate have opted to only offer downloads within a bundled album,” Resnikoff reports. “Apple insists on individual track downloads, a stance that precludes its participation.”
Resnikoff reports, “Instead, AmazonMP3 will score the exclusive, according to the sources, though details related to the exclusivity window were not immediately available.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iTunes Store offers “album only” sales, but if the crux of this report is true, Sony must only want to sell 20% of what they could have sold online.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Robert S.” for the heads up.]
TowerTone,
You used to be an alright [no pun intended] level-headed, conservative.
When did you become a Republican?
@ TowerTone:
We can be sure that no American president will ever be 100 % loved by the rest of the world. But I don’t think you truly realize how much Bush was hated all over the world, and how much Obama is liked. It’s phenomenal, really. And all of this directly affects the safety of America and its ability to forge positive relations in all aspects of foreign relations.
We can also be sure that Obama won’t be as loved by the rest of the world in the end of his term(s). Will he be as hated as GBW? Not even remotely. The non-confrontational, diplomatic foreign policy conducted by the Obama admin will be one of the major reasons.
To put it simply: it’s easier and simply nicer to deal with the Obama administration than it ever was with the belligerent Bush administration. And with this I don’t mean to imply that the Obama admin is nicer because it just rolls over to appease (it doesn’t). No, it’s just nicer to even disagree with somebody who’s not frothing at the mouth.
There’s no need to think that the Obama administration isn’t taking care of the interests of the US of A. It is. It’s just doing it in a much subtler and smoother way than the all too obviously unilateral and, frankly, naive Bush admin.
Besides, apologizing after having done something wrong is still held in high regard all over the world. And it’s free, too.
Eastern Europe? The missile shield program was a very controversial subject there, too. Definitely not something embraced and supported by everyone there. Besides, in the end it was only the fixed site version of the missile shield that was scrapped as expensive and ineffective. We’ll get a distributed sensor network instead. The interceptors can even be deployed from ships. In the end, it seems that the missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic were just baits to get those countries aboard the so-called Coalition of the Willing (and rub it all in the face of Russia).
France and Germany like Obama more than they liked Bush.
Many muslims will hate the US no matter who the President is. Still, Obama isn’t resented as widely as Bush was, at least not yet. We will see how things turn out. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t helping though, and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will probably be a pain in our collective @$$ for ever.
Gotta give credit to Bush for his work in Africa, though.
Hey! ‘Zed’,
Can’t we just stay on-topic, with the Michael Jackson Hate?
Jeez, why bring up Obama?
MDN:MW — black [Wow!]
Who’s this Michael Jackson you speak of?
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Nothing like an article about a Michael Jackson album on a Macintosh computer site to start a thread about the American President.
“When did you become a Republican?”
If you mean my defense of Bush, it was only to contrast the fallacy that President Obama will actually make the world better. Bush did plenty to annoy me, but overall, he was a great president.
Predrag
What has Obama changed so drastically in foreign policy that warrants this devotion? Promises?
I haven’t seen one major initiative to reverse anything the left screamed at Bush about.
I expect him to be as ‘human’ as all of our presidents, so I easily forgive the small mistakes and missteps, and I realize ‘hope and change’ don’t happen overnight, but part of the perception that he is a great leader is because people do not hear the constant drum of anti-Obama rhetoric on every decision he makes. Yes, it is examined, but then allowed to be dismissed.
And while I don’t agree with his domestic policy, I seriously don’t want him to fail on the the real substance of foreign policy, which is not what is spoken at the UN or discussed by talking heads on TV, but in the actions that nations take, which in the end, is what really matters.
PredragSeveral billion people doesn’t live in this country, and is seeing the downward spiral he is pushing us into.
Yours Smugly“Many muslims will hate the US no matter who the President is. Still, Obama isn’t resented as widely as Bush was, at least not yet. We will see how things turn out. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aren’t helping though, and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will probably be a pain in our collective @$$ for ever.”
Here’s one measure of foreign policy that actually matters: Will Iran become a nuclear power?
They are already the number one sponsor of terrorism in the world, they sponsor terrorism beyond the middle east even.
As a nuclear power…
All the feel good warm-fuzzies in the world won’t be able to make up for this.
While I can’t stand Obama on nearly any level, if he can stop this from happening, then I’ll give him his due. If not, well he’s just another Jimmy Carter for this generation. A failed, miserable president who also got a Nobel Prize for trash talking America to the rest of the world.
Micro MeNothing like an article about a Michael Jackson album on a Macintosh computer site to start a thread about the American President.
lol.. you must be new here?
At least we’re not seeing dozens of posts about MJ being a child molester.
[it was only to contrast the fallacy that President Obama will actually make the world better.]
See Republicans. Here is a conservative that mans-up and actually acknowledges his president.
He doesn’t expect much. But, hopefully ‘O’ earns a little of his respect, too.
OK everyone, the sky is not falling. iTunes WILL sell MJ’s fantastic Paul Anka ripoff album! Yay for democracy, and the freedom to be any sort of perv you’d like provided your attack attorneys are mendacious enough.
The Nobel Peace Prize used to be given out for a great accomplishment that furthered world peace.
One guy was given The Prize for creating the UN Peace Corps. (They are the guys with the blue berets that jump in between warring factions and tell the combatants that if they start shooting the UN forces will be the first to die.)
The biggest Nobel Prize, The Peace Prize, used to be a really big deal. What were the mad men in Oslo thinking when they voted Obama The Prize only 8 days into his first term? How had he made the world a more peaceful place in 8 days? Do the boys in Oslo know that Obama did not beat Bush in the election? Bush couldn’t run again. Eliminating Bush may have furthered world peace but Bush was already eliminated.
So far, Obama has done nothing to earn a Peace Prize. Maybe he will qualify for The Prize some day, but would he be happy wining a prize that is handed out to any Democratic US President a week after his/her inauguration?
Wait a minute, maybe The Prize will just be given to newly inaugurated racial/cultural minority US Presidents from now on.
The next woman/Hispanic/Jewish/Native/Budist President wining the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize will not be shocked and embarrassed like Obama was, knowing beforehand that every minority breakthrough President gets one.
BIg Al’s MBP:
You are confusing Peace Corps with UN Peacekeepers. The UN Peacekeepers have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988, and the UN, its various agencies, Secretaries-General and others have received it several times (UNHCR, UNICEF, Dag Hammarskjold, Kofi Annan, etc). Peace Corps is an American non-profit organisation that does development projects around the world.
As for the award to Obama, it is obvious to anyone that it wasn’t given to him for his accomplishments (and it wasn’t the first time they did this). It was just a message that the choice Americans have made is for peace, rather than war. Obviously, Obama will need to do a hell of a lot in his first term in order to justify the prize he received so early in his term, and without any concrete work on the subject.