American Idol Performances on iTunes

[MacRumors]

Apple announced today that they have partnered with Fox Broadcasting Company to provide performances from Season 7 of the American Idol show on iTunes one day after airing:

"We've created a special section on the iTunes Store for 'Idol' fans with an incredible array of music and video performances from television's most popular show," said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. "We think 'American Idol' viewers are going to love the ability to purchase and download 'Idol' performances from iTunes."

Music will be available for $.99 and video for $1.99. American Idol is a popular U.S. television singing competition reality series.

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[Macmaniac]

They should add gag reals of all the awful people, those would be the only ones I would buy

[davester]

Slow news day at macrumors.com ...

[Sky Blue]

How is this news? I would struggle to see the relevance as a Page 2 item...but main page??

Maybe 'Steve Jobs had pancakes for breakfast' will show up in my RSS feed soon.

[jonnylink]

Music will be available for $.99 and video for $1.99. American Idol is a popular U.S. television singing competition reality series.

Is there really a place in the world where people can read English and not know what this show is? And how do I get there?

[jonnylink]

Originally Posted by Sky Blue

How is this news? I would struggle to see the relevance as a Page 2 item...but main page??

Maybe 'Steve Jobs had pancakes for breakfast' will show up in my RSS feed soon.

He did?! Were they blueberry pancakes? Does he use Maple syrup or the fake stuff? Please don't leave us hanging! Mac enthusiasts world wide are dying to know.

[spot1701]

Originally Posted by MacRumors

"We think 'American Idol' viewers are going to love the ability to purchase and download 'Idol' performances from iTunes."

Purchase? Oh, I thought they were going to pay us to watch it.

Surely that's the only way it's going to work?

[Peace]

iTunes would have to pay me before I watched that fabricated crap.

[Yves Creebs]

and we care why........

where's the new MPPros?

[dambrosir]

Why would anybody in their right mind buy this crape is beyond me.

[burnhamish]

I heard somewhere that since tomorrow is Tuesday, there is a strong probability there will be new MBPs announced along with a fix for 10.5.2. Woo-hoo! The wait is over!

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Oh, and who cares about American Idol.

[MrCrowbar]

Originally Posted by jonnylink

Is there really a place in the world where people can read English and not know what this show is? And how do I get there?

I hear you. I live in Germany and read/hear about it all the time. Lucky I haven't seen that show yet, the ones we got in germany are bad enough. Namely "Popstars" and (translated) "Germany is searching for the Superstar".

Anyway, it's nice seeing iTunes getting more content.

[ppc_michael]

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Ew. Hooray for upcoming BBC shows though!

[bug67]

The end is nye! All I can say is 12/21/12 can't come soon enough!

[2bcool2]

the new MBP will be my american idol ,

thats the only american idol i'd buy from apple


by the way, new MBP aint comin tomorrow, steves cancelled tuesdays untill further notice ..

ummmmm..roll on wednesdays ?????

[FightTheFuture]

Originally Posted by Sky Blue

How is this news? I would struggle to see the relevance as a Page 2 item...but main page??

i don't really get the idol following either. but for the past few years it was the most watched show on television. maybe not this year - but people eat this stuff up. now i can imagine that a lot of younger iPod owners are idol watchers so this could be considered big news for apple + iTunes. remember the led zeppelin box set was front page news as well.

[yg17]

Originally Posted by MrCrowbar

I hear you. I live in Germany and read/hear about it all the time. Lucky I haven't seen that show yet, the ones we got in germany are bad enough. Namely "Popstars" and (translated) "Germany is searching for the Superstar".

Anyway, it's nice seeing iTunes getting more content.

You've heard of American Idol in Germany? Damn, that's another country I need to remove from my list of countries to live in before I die

[offwidafairies]

Idol is a joke and gives musicians a bad name

[rockosmodurnlif]

Wait a minute. iTunes partnerships with NBC, Comedy Central, Paramount, damn near anybody who releases stuff on iTunes is front page news. Oh, oh, wait, you guys don't like American Idol so this sucks and isn't relevant ... well sometimes things you don't like or don't care for are newsworthy. It's an Apple press release, it's news.

[tothelimit]

how about an announcement that they will be expanding the available HD content to be rented on the tv ... in a hurry. (please!?!)

[tadunne]

I'd pay 2.99 for them not to appear in my store!?

[Small White Car]

Remember how much press 'The Office' got when it was on iTunes? All that stuff about how iTunes saved it and it was such a big deal?

Its ratings have been around 6-9 million people on TV.

Now, American Idol has generally been around 25-30 million people. (And once up to 42 million.)

So what we have here is a story about how Apple has found a new way to PRINT MONEY for themselves, and you all can't see the newsworthiness inthat?

Good god. News means "it's imporant." It doesn't mean "you would buy this." Get over yourselves.

[RollTide]

Originally Posted by bug67

The end is nye! All I can say is 12/21/12 can't come soon enough!

Yeah the Mayans may have been right.

[IndiaPaleAle]

American Idol viewing is going down the drain, why does Apple think we will want to pay to see this crap?

[skinnylegs]

Can we create a single thread for bitter, sarcastic types who piss and moan when news items that have nothing to do with hardware/software updates from Apple are posted?

Lighten up Francis!