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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 15 2007

Paul McCartney’s ‘Memory Almost Full’ album an Exclusive Pre-Order on iTMS

paulmccartney 20070515 081113 Paul McCartneys Memory Almost Full album an Exclusive Pre Order on iTMSSteve Jobs must be giddy as Apple today announced that thirteen-time Grammy award winner Paul McCartney’s new album, “Memory Almost Full” is available for digital pre-order beginning today exclusively on the iTunes Store. iTunes customers pre-ordering the 13 track album in the US will receive the “Dance Tonight” music video when the album is delivered and the single “Ever Present Past”, immediately upon pre-ordering the new album. Additionally, Paul McCartney’s full catalog of 25 solo albums will be available for the first time digitally on iTunes later this month.

“Memory Almost Full”, McCartney’s latest solo album, will be publicly available for purchase on June 5th, 2007 and represents the first global release by Hear Music, the newly formed record label from Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Music Group. iTunes customers in the US participating in the pre-sale will receive a free download of the music video for the album’s opening track “Dance Tonight” which stars Natalie Portman and was directed by acclaimed director Michel Gondry. Outside North America, iTunes customers who pre-order the album will get an exclusive acoustic version of the single “Dance Tonight”.

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Apr 2 2007

Apple goes for quality over restrictions with EMI Music in iTMS

Apple today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (that is, without digital rights management) from the iTunes Stores worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just USD$1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. 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 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available.

Does anyone else feel like this might be a test run? Is Jobs trying to show the record companies that consumers will pay a bit more for more bits if they aren’t restricted in how they choose to own and use that content? I’ll be interested to see the other labels follow suit.

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