Tokyo Apple Music Event?

[irmongoose]

Ooh, awesome, thanks a bunch for that info on the Shibuya store.
I was just in Shibuya right now, too... should have checked it out.




irmongoose

 

[KTYS]

Now JASRAC wants to "charge" few thousand Yen on iPods for Copyright reasons...
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20050728/shiteki.htm
I wonder how iTMS Japan will have an imapct on this.

 

[plasticparadox]

Well, it's currently 10:23am on the 4th here in Japan... event started at 10, waiting to find out what Steve has for us in store..

 

[taeclee99]

The iTunes Music Store has now launched in Japan!

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/aug/04itms.html

 

[plasticparadox]

Excellent! But I don't have Japan showing up on the flag page yet..

Edit: I got Japan in the drop-down list when I'm reviewing my account, but when I select it, it says it's not available in my country yet...

 

[plasticparadox]

I'm in!

 

[irmongoose]

It's not in the drop-down list!

And Apple.com/jp doesn't show anything either, so I don't think they are just quite ready yet.

But one thing... that press release says ¥150 AND ¥200! THEY GAVE IN! They are selling songs at two prices! And double the price of the other stores!



irmongoose

 

[plasticparadox]

True. But I wasn't holding out for 100yen songs, either. I'm just happy that we got it, finally.

 

[plasticparadox]

So it seems to be pretty good. Most albums I saw going for 1500, but their content doesn't seem so complete. Looks like they did in fact get Avex on board, as a search for Ayumi Hamasaki turned up pages of songs. But ORANGE RANGE and EXILE searches turned up nothing..

 

[ClarkeB]

iTunes has their indie bands on iTunes Japan for ¥1!

 

[plasticparadox]

link?