Zune Marketplace Trumps iTunes
Former Beatles star Paul McCartney, has jumped into the online world of music by offering his new upcoming CD on iTunes. iTunes has only managed to get one of his other CD’s up for sale, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard." Over at the Zune Marketplace, they have 39 of the singer’s albums up with 19 of them for sale. What’s going on here? Even URGE, Rhapsody and Napster have these albums up on their services as well. What’s with the delay Apple? Can we expect a Beatles/McCartney box set, like the U2 one that launched with the U2 iPod? Either way, if you want to listen to McCartney’s music, currently iTunes isn’t the place you want to be.
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“What’s going on here? Even URGE, Rhapsody and Napster have these albums up on their services as well. What’s with the delay Apple?”
Seems to me there has been and still is some bad blood between the two parties….something to do with the word “Apple”
Dave
dentist hate apples and well so does the other apple, so maybe signing up for that urge membership wasn’t a bad deal. I will say that if they started selling video content I might even fork over a bit more cash. And I mean urge to sell video, but they are a music service so not too bad. Hum I wonder what I should download next.
Zune, YEA!
Actually, the reason for the one-week delay for the iTunes store is so that when Apple releases the entire McCartney catalog, it will be available in the new DRM-free format. This way, when–on this Tuesday, the 29th–Apple unveils the new DRM-free tracks from EMI, they’ll have McCartney’s DRM-free catalog as a shiny showcase piece. It’ll be a big one-two punch, and the media is going to eat it up. In the meantime, Napster and Rhapsody and Zune can enjoy their very short-lived moment in the sun. By Wednesday it will be forgotten.
I think the itunes music store has far more content overall. Cant beat apple on ease of use either…
As if anything pertaining to Zune was even significant.
once the emi/drm issues are resolved expect t osee the ENTIRE Beatles catalog. That will be something to sing about
zune-zune doom-doom zoom zoom!
What kind of looser listens to McCartney anyhow? You suck!
Hell in the glory days of quasi legal online music catalogs allofmp3 has the entire beatles music collection available for download.
You guys actually wasting bandwidth over Paul McCartney?? Does anyone actually still listen to that moron? LOL He’s probably better off with Microsoft; thats where the shit is anyhow.