The additional anniversary afterwards its bright opening, Apple's new online-music abundance bifold its huge aboriginal week, affairs addition 1 actor songs. The aggregation says added than bisected of those sales were for feature agenda albums rather than singles. For the crumbling music industry, which has apparent sales abatement eight percent through the aboriginal four months of 2003, compared to the aforementioned aeon in 2002, this account came as a ray of hope.
"It's a baby but reasonable audience, which is actual encouraging," says Interscope Annal administrator Jimmy Iovine. "It's our aboriginal absolute abhorrent move in this area."
Interscope artists are heavily featured on the website -- including top acts such as Eminem and U2, who accept provided absolute material. An acoustic adaptation of U2's "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" is Apple's top download. "Anyone who has got a penicillin for what's amiss with the music biz deserves our encouragement," says U2's manager, Paul McGuinness.
Although these antecedent numbers are impressive, they represent a baby allocation of the music industry's $11.5 billion anniversary revenue. At this pace, the labels angle to acquire about $33.8 actor from the iTunes Music Abundance this year, which lags abaft the $45.4 actor that vinyl annal brought in endure year. Even if Apple continues to advertise a actor downloads a anniversary for the next year, revenues will not bout the aggregate projected yield of cable casework such as Pressplay, MusicNet, Rhapsody and Musicmatch, according to technology-research close GartnerG2. That's because the cable ventures accomplish on the Windows platform, and U.S. users of Windows PCs outnumber Macintosh users by twenty-five to one.
So far, due to advancing piracy concerns, alone two of the 5 above labels accept reportedly active deals acceptance Apple to advance a Windows version. Those apropos are acceptable to abound now that hackers accept begin a way to use iTunes software to allotment music. But Iovine believes creating a Windows adaptation is account any risk. "Whoever doesn't authorization music for this is crazy," he says. "It's a huge mistake."
Of the iTunes Music Store's Top 100 downloaded songs as of May 8th, thirty-five are absolute tracks. Most are B abandon or reside versions of accepted cuts. Here's a adviser to some of the best:
U2 All three of the band's exclusives are in Apple's Top Ten, including "I Will Follow," and "Beautiful Day," adopted from the 2001 Elevation Tour DVD, as able-bodied as an acoustic "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of."
Eminem A adjustment of "The Way I Am," with adolescent cynic Marilyn Manson, who offers aggro guitars and (shockingly) some rapping on the chorus.
Bob Dylan Has four tracks, including "Hero Blues," recorded reside at Carnegie Hall in 1963, and an alternating yield of 1989's "Everything Is Broken." "Dylan alloyed these himself," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "He was absolutely aflame about this."
Massive Attack Three mixes of MA's angry "Butterfly Caught," from the new 100th Window, by Paul Daley (ex-Leftfield), RJD2 and Jagz Kooner. The Flaming Lips
Seven songs, including a must-hear black account of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (not absolute to Apple).
The iTunes Music Store's Top Ten downloaded albums:
1. Jack Johnson, On and On
2. Beck, Sea Change
3. Sting and the Police, The Actual Best of . . .
4. Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits
5. Kelly Clarkson, Thankful
6. Sheryl Crow, C'mon, C'mon
7. Fleetwood Mac, Say You Will
8. Elvis Presley, Elvis '56
9. 3 Doors Down, Away From the Sun
10. Jack Johnson, Brushfire Fairtytales
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