450,000 Beatles Albums Sold On iTunes In First Week
Nov27

450,000 Beatles Albums Sold On iTunes In First Week

According to Billboard, the iTunes Store scored worldwide sales of more than 450,000 Beatles albums in the group’s first week of availability, and more than 2 million individual Beatles songs were downloaded. Abbey Road was the top-selling Beatles album in the U.S., while the top selling song was “Here Comes the Sun,” one of five songs chosen by Apple for use in its promotional TV advertisements. Notably, it is unclear whether the...

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Google Music Set For Fall Debut?

It’s no secret that Google has been developing a new online music store, but it appears that the new service may bow as soon as this Fall for the Holiday shopping season. Industry sources have observed that Google, after making deals with several labels, is now in talks with publishers including the Harry Fox Agency. The increased pace of the deals indicate that the backend of the download store is now in the alpha stages of...

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