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iTunes Europe Adds Major Indie Labels

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In a press release, Apple announced today that it has signed licensing agreements with three of the largest European independent music labels, Beggars Group, Sanctuary Records Group and V2. This adds tens of thousands of new tracks to each of the 3 European stores, growing each of the catalogs significantly.
With three of the most influential independent record labels on board, iTunes Music Store customers in Europe now have access to an impressive catalog of independent artists including Basement Jaxx, The Crystal Method, Interpol, The Libertines, Morrissey, the Pixies, Prodigy, Stereophonics, Paul Weller and The White Stripes.
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*couldn't care less*

Isn't this MacBytes material? I mean... this is a rumor site, not a Mac news site, no? I don't mind important news, but this isn't very important (there still is a huge lack of decent music). iPod/iTunes stories are now beating Mac hardware rumors 10 to 1.
 
GREAT!

I hope we can have access to them here in the U.S. and that we can see the top of the indy charts. I'd love to find out more about these groups that are popular overseas!!!
 
johnnowak said:
*couldn't care less*

Isn't this MacBytes material? I mean... this is a rumor site, not a Mac news site, no? I don't mind important news, but this isn't very important (there still is a huge lack of decent music). iPod/iTunes stories are now beating Mac hardware rumors 10 to 1.
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I disagree, I think this is very important. Many more in Europe will now be drawn to iTunes which = +money for apple = +cool stuff for us.
 
johnnowak said:
*couldn't care less*

Isn't this MacBytes material? I mean... this is a rumor site, not a Mac news site, no? I don't mind important news, but this isn't very important (there still is a huge lack of decent music). iPod/iTunes stories are now beating Mac hardware rumors 10 to 1.
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Firstly, here on MR there are a large number of European members. (Hi all!) This is extremely relevant to them.

Secondly, iPod/iTunes, as well as Mac computers are made by Apple. This site was created before there were even rumors of an iPod so it would seem natural that the site would grow to keep up with Apple.

On-topic: This is great news for iTMS (partial) Europe. The addition of Indies is a much needed/requested feature. Moreso in Europe than in the US, I believe. But all the same, the future still looks bright for iTMS!
 
Very important to me

Indeed, this is great news. There is so much bad music out there. I don't give an ass-whiff about Celine Dion. However, mention the Pixies and I start vibrating like Beavis.

Now I can actually purchase some music at ITMS. Nice.

Thanks Apple.
 
Gary Numan?

Macrumors said:
In a press release, Apple announced today that it has signed licensing agreements with three of the largest European independent music labels, Beggars Group, Sanctuary Records Group and V2. This ads tens of thousands of new tracks to each of the 3 European stores, growing each of the catalogs significantly.
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Cool. Gary Numan had some on Beggar's so maybe we will see it there. More indies!!!!!
 
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(PS-does ITMS show you what label an album is from? it would be great if we could watch the stats of that, over time, and see indie labels become more and more dominant)
 
For me this news is as good as the new iPods.
Go Apple and go independent record labels. I wonder when the catalogue will get added?

[edit] they already have way-hey
 
Has anyone checked out the "just added" on the US Store? It was HUGE this week...more than twice any prevsious week they have listed. Is this to catch up to the OD2 announcement? Go Apple!
 
Worldwide store

One day these music stores will be truly worldwide. It's a real shame that at the minute they're so balkanised. 😡
Still, this is good news for those of us in Europe who have been impatiently waiting for more music to be added to this music store.

I signed up for the UK store and can't get hold of French music that I like, without going through the rigmarole of setting up two accounts, one for each country. I can buy it on Amazon however as a CD. A lot of music in Europe now is trans-national - many albums have songs in several languages, and sell equally well in several countries (ok, perhaps not Johnny Hallyday 😛 ). The only reasons for this are bureaucratic and political, not technical, so here's hoping that after a couple of years of successful sales this can happen.

I'm looking forward to the cinema store (in a few years), which will hopefully do away with that silly DVD region system. It's time media conglomerates woke up to the global marketplace and starting selling similar products to all countries which are interested.
 
This is great news, but I just did a search on the UK store for the examples given in the press release.

I cannot find any Basement Jaxx, Interpol, The Libertines, White Stripes or Prodigy in the store.

The Crystal Method, Morrissey, the Pixies, Stereophonics and Paul Weller were there.

Neil
 
Missing metal badly..

I feel that metal music is strongly missing at the music store, and much of the metal which is there has been encoded really bad, for example, check this one:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=157817&selectedItemId=157807

Steve love to say that p2p networks have songs which sounds like they were encoded by kids. Well, that example above from the music store sounds worse than what a kid would have done, a kid have working ears at least.


One label that would help the situation a lot is "Nuclear Blast" (http://nuclearblast.de/). They feature artists like Edguy, Dimmu Borgir, Exodus, Grave Digger, Helloween, Hammerfall, In Flames, Primal Fear, Stratovarius, Sonata Arctica, Therion and many others. But no sign of them at any of the stores :-(

More metal, properly encoded for a change, and I'm a loyal customer..
 
The White Stripes and Pixies are independent? Since when?

Or independent in Europe maybe? Because both, if not all the aformentioned bands/artists are distributed by "big five" in the States in some form. Not the entire discography, but majority of albums anyway.
 
guet said:
I'm looking forward to the cinema store (in a few years), which will hopefully do away with that silly DVD region system.
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It's not the DVD region system that is the problem, it's the multiple TV system problems in various countries that cause the problem. When that is fixed you will be able to have one standard DVD. My PowerBook does adjust to the various systems - automatically changes for Australian DVDs.
 
mrzippy said:
This is great news, but I just did a search on the UK store for the examples given in the press release.

I cannot find any Basement Jaxx, Interpol, The Libertines, White Stripes or Prodigy in the store.

The Crystal Method, Morrissey, the Pixies, Stereophonics and Paul Weller were there.

Neil
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I think this is a good example of how some tracks are available in some Euro stores, while not in others.
 
Jesus on OSX said:
The White Stripes and Pixies are independent? Since when?

Or independent in Europe maybe? Because both, if not all the aformentioned bands/artists are distributed by "big five" in the States in some form. Not the entire discography, but majority of albums anyway.
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I am going by the Apple press release, but I think they are independent in the UK.

Surely just because they are distributed by the big five has nothing to do with it, they don't own the rights.
 
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