Facing intensified competition in the UK market, Apple’s iTunes Store is offering a range of special free downloads for customers this Christmas.
The iTunes Store will offer a free download every day for twelve days as part of the 12 Days of Christmas promotion. The first download will be available on Boxing Day and then every day afterwards until January 6, 2009.
Apple promises these downloads will include rare singles, exclusive live tracks, free music videos from some of the biggest artists in the world plus classic TV episodes you won’t want to miss. ”A great way to start filling the iPod you received for Christmas,” a company representative said.
“An idea popped out of Radio 1 Interactive a while ago. This would be a device that measures ‘rock’ - how much the band and the crowd are rocking at a gig - called The Rockterscale. It would display the amount of rock at the venue and on the web in real-time, maybe even showing it at other gigs and encouraging bands and crowds to out-rock each other.”
Posted by Jonny on December 17th, 2008 under Music News, News
Music Ally has put together an extensive list of 200 digital music start-ups which have emerged across the last 12 months.
The extensive round-up of new business ideas covers launches by category: social and sharing; video; stores and services; streaming, place-shifting; recommendations and discovery; digital labels; P2P and file-sharing; games and virtual worlds; live music and ticketing; stuff for artists; online mixtapes, MP3 search sites and tools.
The list also includes a single entry category called, “great big stick things that you swish about” and another called “sites with lots of cowbell”.
EMI Music has launched its very own digital music service at EMI.com, promising to use the place as a launch pad for experimental digital technologies and for the development of music discovery systems.
Orange France plans to fight the suspension as it attempts to retain exclusive rights for distribution of the Apple handset.
France Telecom’s Orange said the decision by the competition council is “serious” and endangers commercial partnerships between telecom operators and telephone equipment companies, such as the one it secured with Apple, reports Dow Jones.
Posted by Jonny on December 17th, 2008 under Music News, News
Sony Music will release ‘So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley’, a collection of the singers greatest recordings, on January 19.
Prior to his tragic drowning, aged 30, on May 29 1997 in Memphis Tennessee, Jeff Buckley had only made one full album to his exacting standards, his 1994 studio debut ‘Grace’.
In these fourteen definitive performances of his finest original songs and signature covers, what you hear is the ambition and achievement of an incredibly realised talent; a legacy that’s still growing over a decade after his death.
Posted by Jonny on December 17th, 2008 under Apple, News
Shock news for Apple watchers yesterday when the company confirmed Macworld 2009 in San Francisco next month will be the last time the company takes part in the show.
Ad-funded online music service We7 has launched a campaign to boost recognition of some of the world’s most underrated albums.
The company has teamed up with some music industry bloggers to develop a shortlist such albums. The company says this is an attempt to inspire music fans to experience artists’ full song-writing and performances in the way they were originally intended.
We7 is encouraging album lovers to vote for their favourite from the shortlist, or make suggestions for their own underrated albums missing from the list at the We7 blog.
Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games and Music for MTV Networks Music / Logo Group, added, “Just hearing the first few notes of ‘Jeremy’ or ‘Alive’ brings back all the raw emotion of this incredible, hugely important album. We are honoured to be working with Pearl Jam to deliver ‘Ten’ as it is re-issued.”
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