Beatles Songs Coming To Guitar Hero & RockBand?

Well, it’s certainly a morning of speculation thanks to EFix and now now the Beatles. Usually rumors surrounding the Beatles music resonate with iTunes deployment, but today we’re hearing, thanks to the Financial Times, that the people behind Guitar Hero and RockBand are attempting to score some choice Beatles songs for their popular music-based video games. For the creators of GH and RB, negotiating for the Beatles...

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Amazon Brings ‘Gold Box’ Sales Initiative To Online Music Store

In an effort to promote their MP3 Download store, Amazon has developed two initiatives for MP3 album downloads. The Friday Fives promotion will discount five select titles to $5 per album. Amazon will then experiment on various price points for other albums, some will be reduced to as low as 99-cents, which has been dubbed Russian Pricing based on the now-defunct AllOfMP3 model. That is part of a fresh sales experiment, one that...

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