Apple is now offering a 20-song iTunes Holiday Sampler to U.S. customers which, along with the iTunes Holiday Sampler iTunes LP, includes:
1. O Come All Ye Faithful – Amy Grant
2. The First Noel – David Archuleta
3. Silent Night – Sarah McLachlan
4. Carol of the Bells / Jingle Bells – Barry Manilow
5. It Snowed – Meaghan Smith
6. Above the Northern Lights – Mannheim Steamroller
7. Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Lady Antebellum
8. We Three Kings – Toby Keith
9. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Rascal Flatts
10. Silent Night – Wynonna
11. Twelve Days of Christmas – Mexicani Marimba Band
12. We Wish You a Merry Christmas – Weezer
13. A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) – Glasvegas
14. Another Christmas Song – Stephen Colbert
15. Greensleeves – Vince Guaraldi Trio
16. Dream a Dream – Charlotte Church
17. The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: Character Dances (Divertissement), Dance of the Reed Pipes – Kirov Orchestra & Valery Gergiev
18. Angels We Have Heard On High – Aretha Franklin
19. O Holy Night – Musiq Soulchild
20. Auld Lange Syne – The Lonesome Travelers
U.S. iTunes Store customers, get Apple’s free iTunes Holiday Sampler, including the iTunes LP, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TowerTone” for the heads up.]
I downloaded this. Nice set of songs. Great price (free)!!!
Lotta crappy country lookin scum on there – like the Weezer and Colbert though.
Geez; it’s free and some people still whine. Here’s a clue. Don’t download it monkeyboy.
It’s free. Yeah, lots of it sounds like elevator music, and a few are just gawdawful, but, the delete button didn’t go anywhere. Not the Nutcracker excerpt I would have picked, but, a good orchestra. Nice that instrumentals were included, too.
I’m not a big country fan either, but it’s, what – 3 country tracks and a bluegrass track… Out of 20?!?!? Man, some people would complain about the food at the last supper.
Quick, somebody call a whaaaaaaambulance.
It’s hard to imagine Steve Jobs choosing the tracks that appear on the “Holiday Sampler” Apple released this week, just in time for Christmas.
Barry Manilow singing “Jingle Bells”? “The Twelve Days of Christmas” done as an instrumental by the Mexicani Marimba Band?
This is the kind of music that makes you want to turn off the radio for the month of December.
This LP doesn’t do the format, or the listener, any favors. Stephen Colbert, who may be the freshest thing on the album, has it right:
Get ready Brother for another Christmas song
They play for a month, Ad infinitum
One day it struck me someone must write ’em
So, it’s another Christmas song
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/11/bah-humbug-apples-holiday-sampler/
For me, it just emphasized how awkward iTunes (the app) has become. It shouldn’t have been that difficult to find the LP after I downloaded it!
Why do audiobooks and university lectures show up in my music library? Why can’t I click on an “LP” icon to find my LPs? Why isn’t the Internet radio selection searchable? (And if I used Windows: why is iTunes so slow?)
I love Apple, but iTunes needs help.
Can I Interest You in Hannukah?
Requires upgrage to iTunes 9. Which sucks.
@John, how hard is it to press the album area on the sort bar at the top? Popped right up for me in a library of 13,000.
Honestly, I forgot the name as soon as I downloaded it.
Nice. Very nice.
Thank you Steve or whoever it was that thought of a 20 song gift to the world.
Nice to listent to Weezer when drinking heavily spiked eggnog.
Quick, somebody call a whaaaaaaambulance.
ZOMG Did someone crash their BBQROFLCOPTER?
That music should have come with a warning label. Damn right I’m whining! It may be free, but it just plain sucks.
KCRW radio is also giving away 20 different songs via iTunes…
http://www.kcrw.com/about/kcrws-selections/signup?kcrwB
I honestly don’t know what all you jerks are whining about. Like EVERY Holiday sampler, there are tunes you’ll like and others you won’t. That’s the great thing about iTunes — you can uncheck the tunes you hate and never have to hear them again.
What I love about this promotion is not just the 20 free songs (thanks, Apple), but the free introduction to the LP format. I haven’t downloaded any digital LPs before, and I like the fact I can test drive the format without having to pay for it.
Great marketing effort, even if some “critics” don’t seem to appreciate it. I did.
As my old Father would say, “Some people will bitch if you hang them with a new rope.”
My opinion is that anything “i” sucks. What ever happened to the old standards that Macintosh apps were to adhere to? All the new iApps are so terribly UNintuitive. They might as well have bee written by m$.
What that sampler needs is the best American Christmas carol of all:
What a bunch of whiners!!
Apple: thank you–and ignore the ankle biters.
Generous Christmas gift from Apple.
Gotta love it.
-John “For me, it just emphasized how awkward iTunes (the app) has become. It shouldn’t have been that difficult to find the LP after I downloaded it!”
-Escaport “@John, how hard is it to press the album area on the sort bar at the top? Popped right up for me in a library of 13,000.”
I agree – sort by “album” or just look for the most recent thing downloaded. I found it very easy to find, and really don’t have any problems keeping my stuff organized in iTunes.