Posts Tagged ‘iTunes music store’

Florence + The Machine Skyrocket to Billboard Top 25

In Music, News on 23 September 2010 tagged 2010 Video Music Awards, Best Rock Video, Billboard, Billboard 200, Billboard Charts, Dog Days Are Over, Florence + The Machine, Florence And The Machine, Florence Welch, Hot 100, iTunes, iTunes music store, iTunes Singles Charts, Moonman, MTV VMAs, Video Of the Year, VMA, VMAs with no comments

It seems 4 VMA nominations, a much talked about performance, and massive iTunes sales gains have helped Florence + The Machine as they bound up both the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the Top 200 Albums chart On the Hot 100, Dog Days Are Over jumps 72 spots in a single week from #93 [...]

Florence + The Machine Land in iTunes Top 5 Singles

In Hip Hop, Music, News, R&B, TV on 13 September 2010 tagged 2010 Video Music Awards, 30 Seconds to Mars, Airplanes, B.o.B., Best Rock Video, Dog Days Are Over, Florence + The Machine, Florence And The Machine, Florence Welch, Hayley Williams, iTunes, iTunes music store, iTunes Singles Charts, Kings and Queens, Linkin Park, Moonman, MTV VMAs, Paramore, The Catalyst, The Only Exception, Video Of the Year, VMA, VMAs with no comments

A day after staging one of the two best performances at last night’s 2010 Video Music Awards and being nominated for 4 moonmen (including Video of the Year), Florence + The Machine went from Indie darling underdogs to having a Top 5 single on iTunes as their single Dog Days Are Over skyrocketed to #4 [...]

Why iTunes 9 is NOT A Good Experience

In Internet, Music, News, Opinion on 9 September 2009 tagged Apple, Basement Jaxx, Customer Reviews, design, Feelings Gone, Good Experience, grids, iTunes, iTunes 9, iTunes music store, layout, Sam Sparro, UI, User Interface with 3 comments

Considering iTunes is officially the number one music retailer in the world, Apple must feel they can do almost anything to the iTunes music store and still maintain their dominance. That’s the only explanation for the layout of the iTunes music store in the new iTunes 9 release. Most people will agree that the iTunes [...]

Slate : Will Improper Adaptation of E-Books Ruin Publishing Industry, as MP3s did the Music Industry?

In History, Internet, Music, News, Opinion on 18 July 2009 tagged 1999, 2003, Amazon, Bookster, e-book, iTunes, iTunes music store, Jack Shafer, Kindle, MP3, music industry, Napster, Publishers, Publishing industry, RIAA with 2 comments

Seeing the film, television, and publishing industries make the same mistakes as the music industry circa 1999 is both infuriating and saddening. I find myself marveling at industries who have yet to learn from the mistakes of a stubborn industry that branded its customers as criminals and prosecuted the very people who could have kept [...]