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Oct 17 2007

As rumored, iTunes Plus tracks at 99 Cents

Apple today confirmed rumors that it will beexpanding its iTunes Plus offering to over two million tracks and lowered the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to 99 cents. All iTunes Plus’ tracks feature DRM-free music with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding and its catalog is now the largest DRM-free catalog in the world, and includes artists from Sub Pop, Nettwerk, Beggars Group, IODA, The Orchard and many others, along with EMI’s digital catalog.

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Aug 14 2007

The Beatles are being added to the iTunes store one member at a time

lennon 20070814 202744 The Beatles are being added to the iTunes store one member at a timeBack in May, Apple announced Paul McCartney’s ‘Memory Almost Full’ album as an Exclusive Pre-Order on iTMS.

Today, Apple today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes Store. Sixteen of Lennon’s solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the “Lennon Legend” and “Acoustic” collections making their worldwide digital debuts. For a limited period of 30 days, exclusive video content will be included with the albums “John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,” “Sometime in New York City,” “Walls and Bridges,” “Milk and Honey” and the collections “Anthology” and “Working Class Hero.”

As part of EMI Music’s digital catalog, the John Lennon solo works will be available in iTunes Plus, offering DRM-free music tracks with high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings-for just USD$1.29 per song.

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May 30 2007

Apple launches iTunes Plus

iTunesPlus 20070530 185341 Apple launches iTunes PlusYesterday’s iTunes update should have tipped us off that this was coming.

Apple today launched iTunes Plus — DRM-free music tracks featuring high quality 256kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings — for just USD$1.29 per song. iTunes Plus is launching with EMI’s digital catalog of outstanding recordings, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane and more than a dozen of Paul McCartney’s classic albums available on iTunes for the first time.

iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today — 128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM — at the same price of USD$0.99 per song, alongside the higher quality iTunes Plus versions when available. In addition, iTunes customers can now easily upgrade their library of previously purchased EMI content to iTunes Plus tracks for just 30 cents a song and USD$3.00 for most albums.

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