Kid Rock has spoke to the BBC over the iTunes store, and publicly letting the world know why he won’t sell his music in the largest music store in the US. After hearing the success of iTunes hitting the big 5 billion, It’s hard to comprehend why a musician might not want to be in the store.
Despite not being on the online music shop, his album made it to number one in the US last year. His reasoning for not selling his music through the service is based on claims that iTunes is stuck on a model in which the artists do not get paid and Apple and the labels do.
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iTunes has surpassed itself in music sales with its 5 billionth song sold in the iTunes digital music store.
5 billionth song! If there are roughly 100 million iPods that 5,000,000,000 divided by 100,000,000 that is roughly 50 songs per iPod downloaded in the history of the iTunes library. The colossal number of songs was reached with the iTunes store serving up 8 million songs to your music plater for you to enjoy.
Also on the menu are 20,000 TV episodes, 2,000 movies (350 of which in the chef’s special high-definition sauce). Apple has shifted 50,000 of their movies per day in either rented or purchased form. These statistics are based on the US alone but in other countries I’m sure that “La Cordon iTunes” is dominating the online music market in a very similar way.
The Phoenix News Times is reporting (and your truly confirmed) that you can now view video clips from NASA’s Mars lander. You can watch the little guy pick up Martian soil (which apparently was giving it some trouble to begin with), The downloads are available through Itunes U for free. Check the link below for the full story.
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With Apple’s WWDC08 event fast approaching we gathered our panel which this week consists of Chris Wall, Stu Helm, Bart Busschots and Lewis King along with great contribution from Jason Martin, Jordan Drake and Michael King.
We talk about what we expect to see form the new iPhone, the hype about Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (?) and manage to squeeze in something about movies being available in the UK and Canadian iTunes Stores
We hope you enjoy this week’s episode, apologies about the lower audio quality on the rest of the team, we’re still working out the best way for us all to dial into TalkShoe!
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