Apple Music Coming to Chocolate Bars

[contacos]

I still remember the iTunes Promo with Coca Cola like nearly 20 (?) years ago (I lost track of time). The bottle cap had a code inside and it would give you iTunes credits to buy a single song. It was so much fun before streaming was a thing! I got so much free music that way as a teenager

 

[patjem]

WANT! And all the other flavours too. Maybe it's prediction to a foldable iPhone, since you have to break a package of Ritter sport in the middle to open it.

 

[contacos]

Apparently, German music history didn't start until 1990.

Scorpions - Crazy World : released in 1990
Cro - RAOP : released in 2012
Helene Fischer – Farbenspiel : released in 2013
Marteria – Zum Glück In Die Zukunft II : released in 2014
Sarah Connor – Muttersprache : released in 2015


Not one German industrial music artist/band such as Einstürzende Neubauten, KMFDM, Rammstein, or Die Krupps. 🙄

I was actually surprised it isn't more recent artists like Apache, Nina Chuba, Ayliva or dare I saw it, even Tokio Hotel 😅

 

[Kidseeghost]

…

 

[TheColtr]

I have always loved Apple Music Teams creativity and freedom to do fun, out of the box ideas.

 

[TFrank2]

You can pry the cornflake filling out of my cold dead hands.

The cornflake is the under appreciated workhorse of the Ritter lineup

 

[sw1tcher]

I still remember the iTunes Promo with Coca Cola like nearly 20 (?) years ago (I lost track of time). The bottle cap had a code inside and it would give you iTunes credits to buy a single song.

You remember it being Coke, but it was actually Pepsi

Apple and Pepsi to Give Away 100 Million Free Songs

www.apple.com

 

[contacos]

You remember it being Coke, but it was actually Pepsi

Apple and Pepsi to Give Away 100 Million Free Songs

www.apple.com

Not here! No one likes Pepsi. Funny enough it was literally 20 years ago. DAMN!

Coca-Cola & Apple starten neue Musik-Initiative in Europa

www.apple.com

 

[philstubbington]

Currently in Dusseldorf and a fan of Ritter Sport so will keep an eye out for it 😂

 

[TFrank2]

Not here! No one likes Pepsi. Funny enough it was literally 20 years ago. DAMN!

Coca-Cola & Apple starten neue Musik-Initiative in Europa

www.apple.com

I remember this one below like it was yesterday and yes, I went multiple times. 😂

The Gap to give away iTunes music in new jeans promo

The Gap has announced a promotion that gives visitors to their stores a free iTunes Music Store download for trying on jeans.

www.macworld.com

 

[Schnegg]

Ritter Sport is trash, this is a terrible match.

 

[dannyyankou]

Apple truly lost it way.

Apple has done promotions like this for the longest time, like Coca Cola and iTunes.

 

[chloe.app]

I'm ready to listen to some Tally Hall on my Saturday chocolate

 

[Baumi]

Apparently, German music history didn't start until 1990.

Scorpions - Crazy World : released in 1990
Cro - RAOP : released in 2012
Helene Fischer – Farbenspiel : released in 2013
Marteria – Zum Glück In Die Zukunft II : released in 2014
Sarah Connor – Muttersprache : released in 2015


Not one German industrial music artist/band such as Einstürzende Neubauten, KMFDM, Rammstein, or Die Krupps. 🙄

Also, if they *really* wanted to go for albums or artists that shaped German music history, they should have included Kraftwerk, Fehlfarben, and Can or Tangerine Dream.

In truth, though, they probably simply managed to get the okay for a couple of relatively recent albums, and the marketing people had to come up with some kind of justification for the selection.

 

[vanishing]

You know who’s big in Germany?

David Hasselhoff

Start your Hoff journey with this gem,

• Knight Rider (1982): His first album, featuring themes from the popular TV show.

 

[richierichie]

Headphones sold seperate for environmental protection reasons.

 

[needsomecoffee]

I still remember the iTunes Promo with Coca Cola like nearly 20 (?) years ago (I lost track of time). The bottle cap had a code inside and it would give you iTunes credits to buy a single song. It was so much fun before streaming was a thing! I got so much free music that way as a teenager

Also remember that the code could be discovered by holding a Pepsi bottle at a specific angle. I do. Spent quite a bit of time in the local QFC working thru the Pepsi bottles to only purchase "winners" thereby greatly increasing my nascient iTunes library. That plus the frequent iTunes free song download was pretty cool. Still got all the "winners". Some pretty good artists go their start this way. Old times... Thanks for the memory. NSC

 

[JTK Awesome]

Apple has done worse

How Apple And U2 Made An Unforgettable Blunder And Who Is To Blame

Bono has now recounted an infamous muck-up when a U2 album snuck into everyone’s iTunes account.

www.forbes.com

However, no Hoff? Fail.

 

[CarAnalogy]

I thought it was April 1st for a sec when I read that headline.

It took me quite a while to realize they didn’t somehow mean bars…where you go…to eat chocolate socially…

Which would actually make more sense than this.

 

[zhtfreak]

I always find promotional stuff like this fascinating.

I think there was another pepsi promo a couple years ago that offered AM trial qr codes on bottles, but iirc it was some kind of colab with Bad Bunny. There was an article here on MR about it.

I also remember the pepsi iTunes songs promo -- the second one in 2005. I only got one song, but couldn't redeem it because something messed up when I tried redeeming it (I had to log into my account on a friend's computer to do it). I razzed my friend on Windows messenger bc she kept winning free songs. lol I remember they also gave away a bunch of iPod minis that were Pepsi branded. Anyone get one of those?

I also remember another promo with colleges, where if you bought so many ice cream bars you would get a code to redeem for a free song on iTunes. I do remember the song I used my code to get, but I can't find any info about the promo anywhere now. I think it was cerca early 2006. Anyone else remember it?

 

[iLuddite]

Ritter Sport is trash, this is a terrible match.

Thank you—my thoughts exactly

 

[minik]

I still remember the iTunes Promo with Coca Cola like nearly 20 (?) years ago (I lost track of time). The bottle cap had a code inside and it would give you iTunes credits to buy a single song. It was so much fun before streaming was a thing! I got so much free music that way as a teenager

I may still have one of the yellow cap.

Finally some love for EarPods.

I use the USB-C EarPods at work even with multiple AirPods Pro in front of me.

 

[ThomasJL]

Does this mean that the next time Tim Cook gets angry and acts like a sociopath by giving a long and cold silent stare at an employee, he will simultaneously be eating a chocolate bar instead of his usual energy bar?

Source:

Excerpt From New Book Offers Look at Tim Cook's Management Style

The Wall Street Journal today published a new excerpt from former WSJ reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane's new book Haunted Empire, Apple After Steve Jobs, offering a new look into the management style of Tim Cook. Kane notes that when Cook started at Apple in 1998, he set high expectations for...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[villagehiker]

Music choice is fun—never right or wrong. Whatever you like is okay.

As a person who remembers the original release of MacArthur Park by Richard Harris, I was pleasantly surprised when skater Alysa Liu choose the later-leased version by Donna Summers for her free-skating performance at the Olympics.

The point being, music selection is personal and fun, even for Apple and friends.

 

[Kar98]

Apparently, German music history didn't start until 1990.

Scorpions - Crazy World : released in 1990
Cro - RAOP : released in 2012
Helene Fischer – Farbenspiel : released in 2013
Marteria – Zum Glück In Die Zukunft II : released in 2014
Sarah Connor – Muttersprache : released in 2015


Not one German industrial music artist/band such as Einstürzende Neubauten, KMFDM, Rammstein, or Die Krupps. 🙄

In your experience, has Apple Music ever been anything but mainstream pop? If it’s not Tay-Tay or U2 (iykyk) it’s deep underground LOL