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The Beatles Appear in iTunes Store

R94N said:
Yeah, The Beatles' music still sells incredibly well. People often get really fired up for no apparent reason. Maybe it's because it's Apple... ;)
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Here in Liverpool, as you would expect, The Beatles are a major part of the city and it's tourist draw. A museum, various tours, a music festival, The Cavern and The Hard Days Night Hotel. This all generates a lot of money for the city and a huge visitor influx to Liverpool, (you should see it in the summer when the festival is on, every Beatles influenced part of the city is overflowing!).

Not too shabby for a band that some of the posters seem to think are not relevant anymore. Can any other artist's claim anything like this? (OK, Dollywood I guess!!)
 
obsoletepower said:
WOW Apple is ****** stupid.....this was the unforgettable thing??? THIS??? Does Apple really think that by now people haven't gotten the beatles from other sources? Do they really think people held out for years until iTunes got them? Steve Jobs' cancer has infected his ****ing brain...
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Wow, to think you've just posted exactly the same as what about 70% of the posters in this thread already said before the announcement is one thing, but to actually say it in the face of the subsequent evidence to the contrary of the iTunes chart takes some topping.

But I see you did manage to top that with your closing sentence.
 
mkjj said:
Here in Liverpool, as you would expect, The Beatles are a major part of the city and it's tourist draw. A museum, various tours, a music festival, The Cavern and The Hard Days Night Hotel. This all generates a lot of money for the city and a huge visitor influx to Liverpool, (you should see it in the summer when the festival is on, every Beatles influenced part of the city is overflowing!).

Not too shabby for a band that some of the posters seem to think are not relevant anymore. Can any other artist's claim anything like this? (OK, Dollywood I guess!!)
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Sorry, you must be confused. The Beatles are from Manchester; Fox news said so yesterday.
 
clank72 said:
+10 on Steve's reason for not adding Bluray. I agree it's a backwards move. There will be no moving parts in the future. The only downside is, if you don't have an internet connection you are screwed.
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You'll also be screwed if you want to watch a Blu-Ray quality movie on/from a device with a pitiful 32/64 GB of storage.
 
Arisian said:
I'm confused as to why everyone is so pissed
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Easy to understand why :

Arisian said:
-Didn't Apple simply throw up a banner on their front page, Apple.com, their main portal where everyone comes into their site, a little over 24 hours from the announcement and then 24 hours simply release the Beatles stuff onto iTunes. Why is everyone so pissed about that?
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Fixed.

People simply thought that by putting up something there, the announcement would be a bit broader than simply a new band being sold on iTunes.
 
KnightWRX said:
Easy to understand why :



Fixed.

People simply thought that by putting up something there, the announcement would be a bit broader than simply a new band being sold on iTunes.
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I said it before and I say it again. It is/was entirely YOUR OWN fault to be so worked up by this. You hyped up yourself - Apple simply put a graphics and some lyrical phrases on their webpage and you hyperventilated :rolleyes:

Nothing more was to be expected than the Beatles in iTunes with a little bit of logical reasoning IMO.

Funny that Apple has so much influence in your life. Good marketing I suppose. :p
 
obsoletepower said:
WOW Apple is ****** stupid.....this was the unforgettable thing??? THIS??? Does Apple really think that by now people haven't gotten the beatles from other sources? Do they really think people held out for years until iTunes got them? Steve Jobs' cancer has infected his ****ing brain...
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I'll just ignore the last bit of your post, but it's amazing that people are still posting this without realising how stupid it's making them look.

You may THINK that people who want the Beatles music will already have it, but I'd prefer to deal in facts:

Number of Beatles albums in the top 50 iTunes album charts per country with them being available for less than one day.

UK: 10 (20%)
US: 17 (34%)
France: 8 (16%)
Germany: 10 (20%)
Australia: 9 (18%)
Canada: 15 (30%)

It's amazing that people think that Apple have misunderstood the market here, when the evidence shows that it is in fact them who have no idea.

Remember, one of those downloads, which is in the top 50 in most, if not all of those charts is the box set. I was expecting the Beatles to sell well on iTunes, regardless of price, but I wasn't expecting the box set do as well as it seems to be.

Edit just to say that there are only 17 Beatles albums on iTunes, so in the US, every one is now in the top 50 and the others are fact approaching that mark.
 
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Burger Thing said:
Good marketing I suppose. :p
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Very much so.

It's honestly as if people have never come across marketing before. Do people really take all marketing as literally as this, or do they just think that Apple should operate by different rules than everyone else.

The incredible thing about all the accusations of overhyping is that, prior to the announcement, one of the reasons why I thought the Beatles rumour sounded right was that it was so low key. If it had been some huge announcement, they wouldn't have previewed it with just a message on the website for 24 hours.
 
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roadbloc said:
Wow. No-one saw that one coming.
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What happened to Jobs surprising us? Everything leaks now so it gets boring.
 
KnightWRX said:
Easy to understand why :



Fixed.

People simply thought that by putting up something there, the announcement would be a bit broader than simply a new band being sold on iTunes.
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They've put up random stuff on the front page before,like selling a billion songs and a billion apps or al gore winning the nobel peace prize.

I knew it couldn't be big because when is the last time apple announced something big without organising a keynote?
 
KeithJenner said:
I was expecting the Beatles to sell well on iTunes, regardless of price, but I wasn't expecting the box set do as well as it seems to be.
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Ditto. It doesn't make that much sense to me because the 'physical' version of the box set comes with a USB storage device containing every track in lossless FLAC format for the same price as the 256kbps iTunes version...
 
PCMacUser said:
Ditto. It doesn't make that much sense to me because the 'physical' version of the box set comes with a USB storage device containing every track in lossless FLAC format for the same price as the 256kbps iTunes version...
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I don't believe that's true. The USB was available separately (from Amazon I think) and was about £200 here in the UK.

Maybe they came as a pack elsewhere, but I wasn't aware if so.
 
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Confession. I rated the story negative yesterday when the secret was officially solved and would like to change it to positive because I watched

http://www.apple.com/de/the-beatles/concert/

The atmosphere is terrific. It has historical dimensions even if you don't like the music. Thanks to Apple for that documentation available free for everybody, works fine on touch devices naturally. (BTW: How to record and save that video on my MBP? Thx in advance for all hints.)

And maybe I'll buy one song or two songs just for fun and to see how it's equipped with cover images etc. Hypermodern music purchase.

Never seen in ten years iTunes: 77 Beatles songs in "Top 100 Rock Songs", eight in the Top Ten (two or three hours ago, U.S. store). I am a bit infected regardless I thought I couldn't hear their songs any more simply because I heard them too often.

And now call me fanboy or old-fashioned or whatever you want.
 
Burger Thing said:
Ha Ha.. You know what? You are so upset and angry because Apple had you by the balls with a simple announcement - and you know it :D
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I'm not upset at all nor do I feel angry. If anything, my initial comment about hype was aimed at people getting upset over this. However, you seem to have some anger issues yourself, why do you feel the need to lash out ?

totoum said:
They've put up random stuff on the front page before,like selling a billion songs and a billion apps or al gore winning the nobel peace prize.
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Yeah, those were random tidbits like you say, this was a specific announcement about an upcoming announcement. Of course it's going to cause some speculation, that's what secrecy and hype does, it's what Apple wants. In this case, it seems they just managed to disappoint a lot of people, a good lesson learned about hype for everyone.

If this wasn't their intention, why even announce it in advance ? Just throw up the Beatles page when they release the stuff and that's it, no need for the 24 hours of build up.
 
Habakuk said:
BTW: How to record and save that video on my MBP? Thx in advance for all hints.
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I think the only official way of downloading it would be to buy the box set, as it's an extra item on that.

It wouldn't surprise me if it becomes available separately at some point in the future.
 
I have no complaints with Apple stocking beatles stuff. Great, you can get the music everywhere else, in CD format. The problem I have is the ridiculous price. I'm guessing they are having to pay lots to Apple Music to get the rights, but come on the prices are pretty much DOUBLE what you'd pay on Amazon for the CD's (Look at Red and Blue album prices). £17.99 in the UK! even in the shops HMV are charging just £9.99. And you get a physical CD for that price.
 
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