The Beatles on iTunes? PLEASE don't happen!
Newch91
Posts: 17,560
I hope this does not happen. It's looking more and more like it. I will be very upset.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... catalogue/
Apple Said to Reach Agreement On Beatles Catalog
For the next generation of Beatles’ fans, the wait could soon be over.
Apple is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has finally struck a deal with the Beatles, the bestselling music group of all time, and the band’s record company, EMI, to sell Beatles music on iTunes, according to a person with knowledge of the private deal who requested anonymity because the agreement is still confidential.
Depending on the terms of the deal, that could mean that, for the first time, customers can download “Please Please Me,” “Hey Jude” or “A Day In The Life” individually rather than buy them bundled on a CD. While the move to digital doesn’t quite rival the band’s first trip across the Atlantic to on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, it is an acknowledgment that music is now purchased online, not at the store.
Apple and EMI declined to comment, and representatives of the Beatles and Apple Corps, the band’s company, could not be reached.
Since opening its iTunes music store seven years ago, Apple has reshaped the music industry and become the largest music retailer in the United States. But the Beatles catalog had always eluded the company and Steven P. Jobs, its tenacious chief executive (and huge Beatles fan).
One of the last major holdouts against selling its music digitally, the Beatles are the ultimate prize for any music company, a group that has held on to blockbuster sales four decades after breaking up — it has sold more than 177 million albums in the United States alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America — and held on to untouchable cultural prestige. Even in the past 10 years, the group sold more albums than any other act other than Eminem.
For Apple, getting access to the Beatles catalog has plenty of symbolic significance but is unlikely to boost the company’s bottom line.
“It is the only major music group that they still don’t have in the store,” said Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, who has been following Apple for more than two decades. “It is very symbolic because Steve Jobs is a huge fan of the Beatles.”
But for all the success of Apple in becoming the largest distributor of music on the Internet, the iTunes store is not a major source of profits for the company. Apple executives have said that iTunes is roughly a “breakeven” operation.
“The music itself is a vehicle to allow them to sell more iPods and iPhones, which is where they make real money,” Mr. Bajarin said.
Paul McCartney, one of two remaining Beatles, along with Ringo Starr, made his solo music available on iTunes in 2007 and there have been rampant rumors, accusations and counter-accusations since about the fate of the Beatles catalog.
Millions of fans can already listen to their favorite Beatles albums on their iPods, iPhones and other digital music players, since they have been able to transfer tracks from their CDs to the digital devices.
.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2 ... catalogue/
Apple Said to Reach Agreement On Beatles Catalog
For the next generation of Beatles’ fans, the wait could soon be over.
Apple is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has finally struck a deal with the Beatles, the bestselling music group of all time, and the band’s record company, EMI, to sell Beatles music on iTunes, according to a person with knowledge of the private deal who requested anonymity because the agreement is still confidential.
Depending on the terms of the deal, that could mean that, for the first time, customers can download “Please Please Me,” “Hey Jude” or “A Day In The Life” individually rather than buy them bundled on a CD. While the move to digital doesn’t quite rival the band’s first trip across the Atlantic to on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, it is an acknowledgment that music is now purchased online, not at the store.
Apple and EMI declined to comment, and representatives of the Beatles and Apple Corps, the band’s company, could not be reached.
Since opening its iTunes music store seven years ago, Apple has reshaped the music industry and become the largest music retailer in the United States. But the Beatles catalog had always eluded the company and Steven P. Jobs, its tenacious chief executive (and huge Beatles fan).
One of the last major holdouts against selling its music digitally, the Beatles are the ultimate prize for any music company, a group that has held on to blockbuster sales four decades after breaking up — it has sold more than 177 million albums in the United States alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America — and held on to untouchable cultural prestige. Even in the past 10 years, the group sold more albums than any other act other than Eminem.
For Apple, getting access to the Beatles catalog has plenty of symbolic significance but is unlikely to boost the company’s bottom line.
“It is the only major music group that they still don’t have in the store,” said Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, who has been following Apple for more than two decades. “It is very symbolic because Steve Jobs is a huge fan of the Beatles.”
But for all the success of Apple in becoming the largest distributor of music on the Internet, the iTunes store is not a major source of profits for the company. Apple executives have said that iTunes is roughly a “breakeven” operation.
“The music itself is a vehicle to allow them to sell more iPods and iPhones, which is where they make real money,” Mr. Bajarin said.
Paul McCartney, one of two remaining Beatles, along with Ringo Starr, made his solo music available on iTunes in 2007 and there have been rampant rumors, accusations and counter-accusations since about the fate of the Beatles catalog.
Millions of fans can already listen to their favorite Beatles albums on their iPods, iPhones and other digital music players, since they have been able to transfer tracks from their CDs to the digital devices.
.
Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
You keep all your money in a big brown bag inside a zoo, what a thing to do
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Am I wrong? Tell me why you might disagree with me.
9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
well said
Alpine Valley Resort is etched in my brain!!!
Couldn't agree more. Actually it's overdue considering it's been a year since the remasters were released.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
I agree. I can only hope that it'll help introduce their music to future generations.
Los Angeles 10.7.2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01387.html
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
Remember that most Beatles songs that were singles didn't appear on albums anyway so they had to be bought individually. And while I agree that it's lame to take something like "Mr. Kite" out of the context of Sgt. Peppers, I also don't think it's a big deal if someone does...especially because digital downloads seem to be the primary means for distributing and purchasing music nowadays. Complaining in 2010 about Beatles' songs being taken out of the context of the albums would be like if you complained in the 1980's when you bought Led Zeppelin IV on CD and saw that Stairway To Heaven was simply track 4 rather than the epic close to side one of the vinyl.
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
This whole music is art and must be viewed as a whole idea i think is an archaic view.
Offer it both ways. For those who want it in physical form they get it for others they get it their way too.
Embrace technology don't fight it. They seem like old guys who just don't get it if the reason they didn't want it on their is it would "ruin their art"
Charlotte 03
Asheville 04
Atlanta 12
Greenville 16, Columbia 16
Seattle 18
Nashville 22
Ohana Festival 24 x2
I agree, I don't think it's a big deal, at all. It's their music, they can split it up if they want. Is there that many tunes that it will affect.
Music is art. That's not an archaic view at all. It's dumb to think otherwise.
I can kinda understand a band like Pink Floyd saying it could ruin how their music is perceived, most of the Beatles tunes are just songs on an album though.
I just wish they'd quit makin everything sound shitty.
They weren't fighting for their art, it was about a series of lawsuits over the Apple brand. Read the link in my post above your last one.
I agree with your last statement there. I love listening to entire albums. My kids think that is seriously old fashioned. Shit, most people my age think that.
BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
HTFD-6/27/08
ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
OKC-11/16/13
SEA-12/6/13
TUL-10/8/14
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
http://www.last.fm/user/merkinball/
spotify:user:merkinball
Thread over.
Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
Butthead: Huh huh.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
it's weird, i heard on the news this morning that the deal really won't even make i tunes money off of the Beatles but it be another reason for people to go out and buy ipod and ipads.
How have they?
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the illegal downloading is what is killing the music industry, not iTunes.
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful