New York: When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry - reeling from the effects of online piracy - was anxious to see how the new music service would shake out. "The sky was falling, and iTunes provided a place where we were going to monetize music and in theory stem the tide of piracy. So, it was certainly a...
03:25 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Los Angeles: Twitter has launched a service that lets people find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. Twitter made the app available for download from Apple's online store and also launched a Web version on Thursday. Twitter said the service will eventually be available on Android devices as well. The service uses information from Twitter chatter to detect popular tracks as well as new artists....
06:46 AM, Apr 19, 2013
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday. AmazonMP3, the online retailer's digital music business, had 22 per cent of the market for music downloads in the United States in last year's fourth quarter, research firm the NPD Group said in...
12:48 PM, Apr 17, 2013
The answer to the trivia question will be: "Monkey Drums (Goskel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch." That's the 25-billionth song purchased on iTunes. ...
11:02 AM, Feb 07, 2013
With its AutoRip service Amazon.com is taking aim at Apple's dominant iTunes store. ...
02:29 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Google is turning on a "scan and match" service for Google Music users to store copies of their songs online, offering for free what Apple charges $25 a year for. ...
10:35 AM, Dec 20, 2012
On its India debut the iTunes Store is offering a selected range of Indian music and movies for purchase with prices in Indian rupees. ...
01:16 PM, Dec 04, 2012
Colourblind Chameleons Chuck a stone into any college campus in metropolitan India, and chances are it would land on a student who plays in a rock band. That’s how common they are now. No real story there. Okay then, how about those who’ve made their name by not covering songs by other bands? This list is certainly smaller, but here too, you’d probably find several bands in each city, all...
11:25 AM, Oct 31, 2012
San Francisco: Microsoft Corp on Monday announced that Xbox Music, a digital music service to vie with Apple Inc's iTunes and Amazon.com Inc's Cloud Player, will be available for its Xbox game consoles on Tuesday. The service will be expanded to Windows software-based computers and tablets, including the upcoming Surface tablet, from October 26, when Microsoft launches Windows 8. It will be expanded to phones shortly after that. The world's...
10:37 AM, Oct 15, 2012
San Francisco: Amazon.com Inc announced a scan-and-match digital music service on Tuesday, stepping up competition with Apple Inc's iTunes. The new service will find music files on users' computers, create matching versions of those songs and store them in the cloud, Amazon said. As part of the new service, Amazon announced licensing agreements with hundreds of music publishers and distributors, including Sony Music Entertainment, EMI Music, Vivendi SA's Universal Music...
11:00 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Singapore: Apple Inc said on Wednesday it has launched its iTunes online media store in 12 Asian territories including Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan, making it easier for customers in the region to buy and download music and videos. While Asian users of Apple's iPhones and iPads are able to download applications such as the popular Angry Birds game, they have been unable to buy songs and movies online unless...
10:46 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: Fast growing e-commerce website Flipkart is flying into the digital music download territory with its MP3 download service called Flyte. The online music download store which opened on Monday will have to compete with music piracy websites and illegal BitTorrent downloads but also with free Indian online music streaming services. While Flipkart had previously announced its plans to come up with a digital media store, a link to...
11:22 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Los Angeles: Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie's trailer is the most watched one on iTunes with 12.5 million viewership in 24 hours. It has smashed previous record set by the trailer for 'The Avengers', which had more than 10 million iTunes views. Warner Bros Pictures announced that the new trailer for the highly anticipated superhero film has made an iTunes history, reported Aceshowbiz. The trailer broke the record for most...
12:52 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Los Angeles: British singer Adele has became the first artist to secure three milestones on the iTunes music chart, scoring 2011's top-selling single, top-selling album and being named the iTunes Artist of the Year, said the music company. The 23-year-old singer's single "Rolling in the Deep" beat stiff competition from Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, LMFAO and CeeLo Green in the top-selling songs category, while her album "21" was able to...
10:25 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Los Angeles: In recent weeks, Apple, Google and Amazon.com have each launched the missing puzzle piece in their wireless mobile music systems. Apple enabled storage and delivery of your songs over the Internet through iTunes Match. Google started selling music digitally. Amazon shipped an electronic-books device, called the Kindle Fire, that does much more than books. With those additions, each system now lets you buy songs, store them on faraway...
10:25 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New York: Social media and mobile communications will be the two big targets for Google Inc when it unveils a new music store for users on Wednesday, according to four people familiar with its plans. But the giant web search company's new music partners have already labelled the service "unexciting." Music executives had been hoping for a more ground breaking, fully functional cloud-based service; but after licensing talks broke down...
09:00 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Cupertino: Apple has turned on its iTunes Match service - although it's two weeks late. The $25-a-year subscription promises to match every song on a person's computer and store the tunes in an online account on distant servers known as the "cloud." The songs can then be downloaded or streamed to other Apple devices without needing to physically connect them to the computer. Songs that are not recognised can be...
08:45 AM, Nov 15, 2011
London: Global online music revenues are expected to rise by about 7 percent this year to $6.3 billion as digital services such as Spotify and iTunes gain momentum, technology research firm Gartner said on Tuesday. But sales of CDs, hurt by piracy as well as paid-for online distribution, will continue to decline faster than can be made up for by digital sales, as the music industry struggles to adapt to...
05:07 PM, Nov 09, 2011
London: The Who's Pete Townshend on Monday branded Apple Inc.'s iTunes a "digital vampire" that profits from music without supporting the artists who create it. Townshend said that faced with the Internet's demolition of established copyright protections, iTunes should offer some of the services to artists that record labels and music publishers used to provide. These include employing talents scouts, giving space to allow bands to stream their music and...
09:16 AM, Nov 01, 2011
