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iTunes
Music Store
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The iTunes Music Store (iTMS) is an online
music service run by Apple
Computer with its iTunes
application. Introduced on April
28, 2003, the
store, which uses DRM
restrictions, has since been a dominant online music service and has proven the
viability of online music sales. Sample and subscribe to thousands of free podcasts at the iTunes Music Store.
Debuting on April
28, 2003, the
iTunes Music Store was the first of now many online music stores to gain
widespread media attention, opening up the path for many other companies to
start-up similar services. Fans and some executives in the music industry say
that the Music Store has more attractive characteristics than previous services
such as Rhapsody
and MusicNet:
it allows the user to purchase an unlimited number of songs and transfer them to
the iPod, and is
comparatively simple and easy to use because it is closely integrated into the
iPod and iTunes product lines. Currently, the iPod is the only digital music
player that works with the iTunes Music Store (however other players work with
iTunes), but is able to play non-DRM audio files (such as MP3)
from other on-line music stores, such as Emusic.[1]
The store was the result of a deal with all four major record labels, EMI,
Sony BMG, Universal
and Warner
Bros. It also includes over 600 independent
labels, with a total offering of over 2,000,000 songs, including exclusive
tracks from more than 20 artists such as Bob
Dylan, U2,
Eminem, Sheryl
Crow and Sting.
Each song can be downloaded for 99 US cents. Free 30-second previews are
available of every song. Most albums are priced at 9.99 US dollars, although
recently the price of some albums has been raised depending on the length of the
album itself. The user can burn songs to an unlimited number of compact
discs, and specific playlists up to seven discs, after download.
Currently, several dozen new songs are added each Tuesday, and beginning with
Moby on July
29, 2003,
independent artists are now included. Apple also releases a 'Single of the Week'
and usually a 'Discovery Download,' on Tuesdays, which are available at a no
cost download for one week. It has recently launched albums on pre-order status,
the first one to become available was X&Y
by Coldplay.
The iTunes Music Store also includes over 9,000 audio books, encoded at 32
kbit/s. 90 second previews are offered for every book.
Neither The
Beatles nor Led
Zeppelin appear in the iTunes online catalogue (with the exception of a very
early Tony
Sheridan album with the Beatles as background singers). Led Zeppelin are not
included due to a belief (by the band) that their songs should not be available
outside of albums, while The Beatles' record company Apple
Corps is currently in a legal battle with Apple Computer over the name
"Apple". There are, however, biographies within the Music Store for
both Led
Zeppelin and The
Beatles.
As of August
2005, the Japanese store offers no songs from Sony
Music Entertainment. However, some musicians like rock musican Motoharu
Sano are trying to sign with Apple independently [2].
On September
6, 2005, SME
announced its plan to sell songs in iTMS but did not say when [3].
In 2004, CDBaby
(an online music store which features more than 100,000 independent artists)
signed a deal with Apple and managed to get every artist (who wanted digital
music distribution) on iTunes.
Episodes from the ABC
television shows Lost
and Desperate
Housewives became available for download in October
2005, along with several short animated films by Pixar.
The store sold about 275,000 tracks in its first 18 hours and more than
1,000,000 tracks in its first week. When released for Windows, iTunes was
downloaded more than 1,000,000 times in the first 3 days and more than
1,000,000 songs were sold in that period.
On December
15, 2003
Apple announced that it had sold 25 million songs since the launch in April.
In January
2004 at the Macworld
Conference & Expo in San
Francisco, Steve Jobs announced (as cited in Sellers, 2004) that an
unnamed person had purchased $29,500 USD
worth of music.
On March
15, 2004,
Apple announced that iTunes Music Store customers had purchased and
downloaded 50 million songs from the iTunes Music Store. They also reported
that customers were purchasing 2.5 million songs a week which translates to
a projected annual run rate of 130 million songs a year. The 50 millionth
song was "The Path of Thorns" by Sarah
McLachlan. [4]
On April
28, 2004,
the iTunes Music Store marked its one year anniversary with 70 million songs
sold, the clear dominance in the paid online music market and the slight
profit. [5]
The store also offers hundreds of movie trailers and music videos, in an
attempt to boost soundtrack sales. In the conference, Steve
Jobs reiterated that a subscription service is still not the interest of
customers and reported that only 5 million of the 100 million songs offered
in the Pepsi
giveaway campaign were redeemed, which he blamed on technical problems in
Pepsi distribution.
According to an Apple Press
Release [6]
released on August
10, 2004, the iTunes Music Store is the first store to have a catalog of
more than one million songs. Also, the iTunes Music Store at that point
maintained an over 70% market share of legal music downloads.
On September
1, 2004 the
iTunes Music Store had surpassed 125 million songs sold. [7]
On October
14, 2004
the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 150 million songs sold. [8]
On December
16, 2004
the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 200 million songs sold. Ryan Alekman of
Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA, bought the 200 millionth song "The
Complete U2" by U2.
[9]
On January
24, 2005
the iTunes Music Store sold a quarter of a billion
songs worldwide. [10]
As of March
2, 2005,
the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 300 million songs sold. [11]
On May 10,
2005 Apple
announced that it had sold over 400 million songs. [12]
On July 5,
2005 Apple
announced that the countdown to half a billion
songs had begun. [13]
On July 18,
2005 Apple
announced that it had sold 500 million songs. Amy Greer of Lafayette,
Indiana, USA, bought the 500 millionth song, "Mississippi Girl" by
Faith
Hill. [14]
On October
31, 2005
Apple announced that it had sold 1 million videos since the launch of video
support on October
12, 2005. [15]
Originally only Mac OS X users who had credit cards with a U.S. billing
address could buy songs with the service, but Steve
Jobs, the CEO of Apple, announced plans to support both Windows
and non-American users. The Windows version of iTunes and support for the
Windows platform from the iTunes Music Store were announced on October
16, 2003, with
immediate availability.
On 15 June
2004, the
iTunes Music Store was launched in France,
Germany,
and the United
Kingdom. Songs were priced at 99 Euro cents ( €0.99) for France
and Germany,
and 79 pence (£0.79) for the United
Kingdom. According to an Apple
Press Release, the European iTunes Music Stores sold a combined total of
800,000 songs in one week, with 450,000 of those songs sold in the UK [16].
On 26
October 2004
nine countries were added to the iTunes Music Store in a large EU
store expansion: Austria,
Belgium, Finland,
Greece, Italy,
Luxembourg,
the Netherlands,
Portugal,
and Spain.
This extended availability to all countries in the Eurozone
except for the Republic
of Ireland, where the iTMS became available on 6
January 2005.
These countries also pay €0.99 for songs, and all these stores share the
same catalog and are available only in English. The French, German,
American, and British stores are localized for their respective countries
and have different catalogs. On 3
December 2004
the British Office
of Fair Trading referred the iTunes Music Store to the European
Commission because it prevents consumers in one EU country from buying
music from stores in other EU countries, in violation of EU free-trade
legislation; the immediate cause of the referral was because the €0.99
price charged in the Eurozone
equates to 68 pence in sterling, rather than the 79 pence actually charged
there.
The iTunes Music Store was launched in Canada
on December
3, 2004;
Canadian customers pay $0.99 (CDN)
per song.
On 10 May
2005, the
iTunes Music Store "went live" for Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland
and Denmark,
after about two weeks of speculation about these countries (and Australia)
receiving the store.
Apple officially launched the iTunes Music Store in Japan
on 4 August
2005, with 1
million songs available; 90% of songs are priced at 150 yen (1.34 dollars) [17].
In the next four days the store had sold one million songs–the pace faster
than that of the U.S. store [18].
This opening to the world's second largest music market, where iPod controls
about 30% market share, came after a long delay. In addition, Apple failed
to have one set price for singles. Pundits have speculated that this may
indicate the introduction of new price structure to the rest of the stores
in future, in favor of record labels who would like to see higher prices for
new songs.
The iTunes Music Store was launched in Australia
on 25
October 2005.
Individual songs are priced at AUD$1.69
per track, album prices vary but are generally priced at $16.99. The recent
release of video-capable iPods
also saw the store launch with music
videos and short films by Pixar
available for $3.39 each, although TV episodes are not currently available.
Failed negotiations with the Sony
BMG label (which had delayed the launch of the Australian iTMS
significantly) meant that none of that label's artists are available at the
time of launch. Stores in the Coles
Myer retail chain will sell iTunes Music Cards in denominations of $20,
$50 and $100. Access was accidently given to people in New
Zealand too [19].
Songs are encoded using FairPlay-encrypted
128 kbit/s AAC
streams in a mp4
wrapper, using the .m4p extension. In practice, the sound quality is comparable
to songs encoded at 160 kbit/s using MP3
or 128 kbit/s using Microsoft's Windows Media Audio WMA
format.
While licenses to the AAC compression and the mp4 file format are readily
available, Apple has yet to allow their proprietary FairPlay encryption scheme
to be licensed to other hardware manufacturers, so only Apple's QuickTime and
iPod can play AAC files encrypted with Apple's FairPlay
technology.
Apple's FairPlay
Digital
rights management (DRM) is integrated into iTunes, which manages songs
purchased from iTunes Music Store. Users are not allowed unlimited CD burns of
playlists, or to play the songs on more than five computers within 24 hours.
However, they are allowed to copy the songs to an unlimited number of iPods.
With the introduction of iTunes 4.5, Apple raised the number of machines
allowed to use purchased music from 3 to 5. They also cut the number of times a
user can burn CDs of the same playlist from 10 to 7. This adjustment was the
result of the renegotiation Apple had with major labels. In 4.7.1, users were
further restricted: they were limited to sharing their songs with five computers
within 24 hours, rather than the previous five at a time
Apple FairPlay technology, however, is not unbreakable. A user can, for
example, convert protected files to unprotected MP3 format by burning them to an
audio CD, then ripping them back to iTunes. This method, however, reduces the
sound quality of the recording. Software
has emerged that can remove Apple's FairPlay DRM, allowing the files to be used
without technological restriction.
Competitors accuse Apple of using iPod, the iTunes Music Store, and "FairPlay"
(Apple's DRM-protected
implementation of the AAC open
standard) to establish a vertical
monopoly to lock iPod users into using the iTunes Music Store exclusively
(and vice versa). This "lock" has two aspects:
Apple has maintained tight control of its FairPlay encryption, electing
not to license it to other companies. As a result, other online music stores
cannot sell music files encoded with FairPlay, and competing devices from
companies such as Creative
Labs and iRiver
cannot play such files. Consumers who want to download songs from the
extensive iTunes music catalog to their digital audio players have no choice
but to purchase an iPod (or, as mentioned above,
convert the downloaded files to an open format).
The iPod does not support Microsoft's DRM-protected WMA format or
RealNetwork's Helix-DRM protected files, so iPod users who wish to purchase
protected music that uses one of these DRM protections must circumvent the
DRM of the files (which may be illegal) to play them on their iPod.
In July
2004, RealNetworks
debuted an application named Harmony,
which used a technological workaround to allow iPod users to convert files
purchased from RealNetworks' RealRhapsody
service into a FairPlay-compatible format which an iPod could play. Apple
responded by accusing RealNetworks of "adopt[ing] the tactics and ethics of
a hacker to break into the iPod." [20]
Apple later released a firmware
upgrade that rendered fourth-generation iPods and iPod mini incapable of playing
files converted with Harmony; RealNetworks subsequently vowed to develop another
workaround.
On January
3, 2005, an
iTunes online music store customer sued Apple Computer, alleging the company
broke antitrust laws by freezing out competitors (iTunes
Lawsuit).
In March
2005, Jon
Johansen ("DVD Jon") released a program called PyMusique
([21])
that allows iTMS customers to purchase songs without any DRM
restrictions. On 21
March Apple blocked access to the iTMS with PyMusique. A day later, Jon
wrote in his "So
Sue Me" post: "The iTunes Music Store recently stopped supporting
iTunes versions below 4.7 in an attempt to shut out 3rd party clients. "I
have reverse engineered the iTMS 4.7 crypto which will once again enable 3rd
party clients to communicate with the iTMS." To this day, there are several
ways to convert protected iTunes music files into regular mp3 files
On Super Bowl Sunday, February
1, 2004, Apple
launched a promotion with Pepsi
in which they gave away 100 million songs, through tokens on selected soft drink
bottle caps. Fortunately for Apple, Pepsi failed to properly distribute the
bottles to major metropolitan areas until only weeks before the promotion ended,
despite a one-month extension of the deadline by Apple. The promotion, however,
was repeated beginning January
31, 2005, with
300 million songs available, and an iPod
mini given away every hour.
On July 1, 2004,
Apple announced that, starting with the sale of the 95 millionth song, an iPod
would be given away to the buyer of each 100 thousandth song, for a total of 50
iPods. The buyer of the 100 millionth song would receive a PowerBook,
iPod, and $10,000 gift certificate to the iTunes Music Store.
Ten days later, on July
11, Apple announced that 100 million songs had been sold through the iTunes
Music Store. The 100 millionth song was titled "Somersault (Dangermouse
Remix)" by Zero
7, purchased by Kevin Britten of Hays,
Kansas. He then received a phone call from Steve
Jobs personally, who offered his congratulations, as well as a 40GB 3rd
Generation iPod
laser-engraved with a message of thanks.
Inspired by Pepsi's marketing success with iTunes giveaways, Coca-Cola
partnered with 7-Eleven
to give away a free iTunes song with every 32 oz. Slurpee
frozen beverage until July
31, 2005. Songs
could be redeemed until August
31, 2005 by
entering a code printed on the Slurpee cup into the iTunes Music Store
application. Coca-Cola did this in spite of having its own music store, myCokeMusic.com,
that competes with the iTunes Music Store in Europe.
On July 5, 2005
Apple announced that they were counting down to half a billion songs. The buyer
of every 100 thousandth song up to 500 million would receive an iPod
mini and a 50-song gift card. The grand prize for the person who downloads
the 500 millionth song was 10 iPods of their choice, a 10,000-song gift card, 10
50-song gift cards and 4 tickets to the Coldplay
world tour. Twelve days later, on July
17, Apple announced that 500 million songs had been sold through the iTunes
Music Store. The 500 millionth song, purchased by Amy Greer of Lafayette,
Indiana, was "Mississippi Girl" by Faith
Hill.
On July 28,
2005, Apple and Gap
(Gap
Press Release) announced a promotion to award iTunes music downloads to Gap
customers who tried on a pair of Gap jeans. From August
8 to August
31, 2005, each
customer who tried on any pair of Gap jeans could receive a free download of
their favorite song from the iTunes Music Store.
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