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100 and single

Hey, Let's Write a Song Called "Steve Jobs Is Dreamy"


Ed. note: Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts:

"Is this Feist again?" my friends asked at the Super Bowl party I attended last Sunday, as Apple's latest product-porn ad popped onto the plasma.

"No, no," I said, confidently. "Apple doesn't re-use acts in these ads. I think this is Regina Spektor."

Oops.

I pride myself on being able to nail a song in one or two listens, but I think I can be forgiven for botching that call. The fact is, no one in America had heard of Yael Naïm before her perky, warbly "New Soul" became the soundtrack to the first MacBook Air commercial. But that's all changed, now that "New Soul" is the top-selling song on iTunes. In fact, in her first week on the Hot 100, the indie-label-backed Israeli native pulls off something that took Feist about a month: Reaching the chart's Top 10.

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12:00 PM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By Chris Molanphy
2,194 views, 7 comments

itunes

Steve Jobs Not Subscribing To Labels' iTunes Demands

Negotiations between iTunes and the four major labels are looming, and there's been a fair amount of talk about the majors' desire to shift iTunes to a subscription model similar to Napster, Urge, and other also-ran music-selling sites. But yesterday, Jobs told a reporter that he was pretty lukewarm on the idea—and he even used the f-word while doing so: More »

12:45 PM on Fri Apr 27 2007
By mjohnston
617 views, 5 comments

Behind The Scenes At The iTunes Store: It's About As Nerdy As You'd Imagine Today's Wall Street Journal looks at what it takes for artists to get some lovin' from the iTunes store. It's a lengthy piece, so here's our quick cheat sheet:

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emi

Steve Jobs' Music-Industry Rant Might Be Winning Hearts, Minds Of Record Execs

When Steve Jobs squawks, people listen: Earlier this week, the Apple honcho posted a lengthy missive about the need to make all digital music files unprotected, arguing that the major labels have to make their music as accessible as they can in order to combat piracy (reading the polite-but-firm essay was like reading the longest Olive Garden comment card of all time). And today, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that EMI is considering making all of its music available in restriction-free MP3 format: More »

8:51 AM on Fri Feb 9 2007
By Brian Raftery
85 views, 2 comments

Latest by David Flores: Risk insurance? What morons! It's like they're worried that once these songs are made available in MP3 there'll be no stopping their unfettered and unauthorized dissemination. Earth to EMI (and everybody else: your music is already available in MP3 format. more »

riaa

RIAA Not Willing To Give Up On The DRM Dream

Steve Jobs' anti-digital rights management screed from earlier this week has elicited a response from the Recording Industry Association of America, who, having already shown off their lousy math skills, are now putting their not-so-great reading comprehension on display: More »

9:17 AM on Thu Feb 8 2007
By mjohnston
64 views, 3 comments

apple

New Apple Deal Will Allow Steve Jobs And Paul McCartney To Finally Make A Few Bucks

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple (the company in charge of the Beatles' catalog) and Apple (the computer company that can't seem to make a decent battery) have settled their trademark dispute: More »

11:19 AM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Brian Raftery
303 views, 2 comments

ipods

IPod Nerd Hopes To Become Nerdiest Nerd Of All Nerd Time

Jon Johansen (pictured) may not look too threatening, but he's the kind of guy who keeps entertainment-industry execs up at night with the heebie-jeebies. A few years ago, he cracked a DVD-copying code that got him lots of press attention (and even more legal attention); now he's come up with a program called DoubleTwist, which will allow iTunes-purchased songs to be used on any device, with no DRM restrictions: More »

2:50 PM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By Brian Raftery
215 views, 10 comments

itunes

A Lesson In Crime: How To Liberate Your iTunes-Store Purchases

Anyone who's ever purchased a track from the iTunes store knows that you only sort of own the song, thanks to Apple's stringent DRM restrictions (it stands for Digital Rights Management, which sounds like a terrible new Kool Keith album, but is actually how the biz tries to prevent widespread digital piracy). Under Apple's rules, users are limited by how many times they burn a certain playlists, or how many computers they can use, or how long they can listen to a song while standing in line at the zoo, etc. There's a lot of fine print. More »

11:13 AM on Tue Sep 19 2006
By Brian Raftery
155 views, 5 comments

Latest by mackro: You guys can throw me into the fire if you want, but I semi-regularly buy tunes from iTunes, mainly because I want to guarantee a non-defective mp3 download from an artist, and I want the artist to get paid -- more »