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iTMS Downloads Surpass 300 Million
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ekullhu said:
Man, one of my favorite bands, saw the movie and I seem to have missed that - can you give me an approx hour/minute for this statement?
Adam
chevyorange said:
Yeah, it's in one of the film festival Q&A's on the second disc. In the bonus material.
to be exact (I looked it up again) it's:
Disc 2 -> Festivals and Premieres -> sundance press conference -> 3:38
While I'm here, I will still always buy a CD of bands I know and love if it's avaliable as I agree with what other say in regard to a CD being better sound qualilty even though 99% of the time I listen to the AAC version after I've put the album in iTunes. But anyway I'm more interested in the iTMS for getting one off songs, for exploring new music or finding stuff you can't get on CD. But then I'm in Australia, so it's a bit of a mute point.
Selling all those songs
Wow, why doesn't napster just give up now? They're not making any money, just prolonging the decline. My friend has already stolen thousands of songs from napter (they offer it at our university out of our tuition). The record labels should shut em down.
Wow, why doesn't napster just give up now? They're not making any money, just prolonging the decline. My friend has already stolen thousands of songs from napter (they offer it at our university out of our tuition). The record labels should shut em down.
Again well done Apple...
...but i would like to know alittle mor about what is driving growth.
I would be interested to see a graph that shows info about the release date of downloads - by this I mean are more back catalog items being downloaded versus songs released in the last 6 months or so? A majority of new albums are released in the September-October months, leading up to Christmas, and this may impact sales growth.
Additionally, I would like to know how many new iTMS users there are vs new iPod owners? Are we seeing growth from new users or existing users switching from buying CD's less frequently to iTMS more often. I know a lot of iPod owners who still want the CD with the liner notes, cover art, etc. and therefore are not as attracted to iTMS (I know several USAers who are iPod users and have never bought anything from iTMS)
How about general numbers on the increase in people who purchase anything off of the 'net? Are we seeing more internet shoppers in general, and thus potentially more iTMS shoppers?
Lastly, does anyone know how much Apple makes from each $0.99 download. I do not think it would be all that much after factoring in the shares for the record label, the writers and the artists? On an interesting side bar writers too must be happy about any back catalogue sales on iTMS as the income would be welcomed, like when Dolly Parton got herself a huge paycheck on the coattails of Whitney Houston's success with 'I will always love you' and Peter Allen getting his dosh from coining the line 'between the moon and New York city' from Arthur (?) as this qualified him for writing credit!)
...but i would like to know alittle mor about what is driving growth.
I would be interested to see a graph that shows info about the release date of downloads - by this I mean are more back catalog items being downloaded versus songs released in the last 6 months or so? A majority of new albums are released in the September-October months, leading up to Christmas, and this may impact sales growth.
Additionally, I would like to know how many new iTMS users there are vs new iPod owners? Are we seeing growth from new users or existing users switching from buying CD's less frequently to iTMS more often. I know a lot of iPod owners who still want the CD with the liner notes, cover art, etc. and therefore are not as attracted to iTMS (I know several USAers who are iPod users and have never bought anything from iTMS)
How about general numbers on the increase in people who purchase anything off of the 'net? Are we seeing more internet shoppers in general, and thus potentially more iTMS shoppers?
Lastly, does anyone know how much Apple makes from each $0.99 download. I do not think it would be all that much after factoring in the shares for the record label, the writers and the artists? On an interesting side bar writers too must be happy about any back catalogue sales on iTMS as the income would be welcomed, like when Dolly Parton got herself a huge paycheck on the coattails of Whitney Houston's success with 'I will always love you' and Peter Allen getting his dosh from coining the line 'between the moon and New York city' from Arthur (?) as this qualified him for writing credit!)
My understanding is this:iAlan said:
Of that $0.99, about $0.80 goes to the record label. A portion of that goes to the writers and artists. About $0.15 covers the cost of bandwidth, leaving about $0.04 as profit for Apple.
wrldwzrd89 said:
I'd say it was 'contribution' rather than profit. ... overheads, PR, directly attributed labour etc are all gonna have to be covered by that 4¢.
Missing Bands
All I want is for Evanescence, Linkin Park, etc. just cave in and join iTMS, my favorite bands and they're not even there
Maybe someday
All I want is for Evanescence, Linkin Park, etc. just cave in and join iTMS, my favorite bands and they're not even there
Maybe someday
Well, tomorrow is 35 days to 100 million. The prior gap was 37 days.
So I see two possibilities:
(1) Growth rate has gone from outstanding to essentially zero in just a few short months. Not good.
(2) They won't utter a peep until 500 million is reached. And Apple fans would want to see that in <5 weeks. In fact, appreciably less would be a good thing or else we are back to #1.
So I see two possibilities:
(1) Growth rate has gone from outstanding to essentially zero in just a few short months. Not good.
(2) They won't utter a peep until 500 million is reached. And Apple fans would want to see that in <5 weeks. In fact, appreciably less would be a good thing or else we are back to #1.