Stats:
30 million songs sold since April.
iTunes now controls 70% of legal downloads market.
The top single person buyer at the iTunes music store has spent $29,500 by himself. WOW.
New Features Being Added to iTunes:
Adding Billboard “Hot 100” charts from 1940x-present.
Adding 12,000 classical songs today.
500,000 songs are available for download. The largest online music store in the world.
Pepsi and Apple are giving away 100 million songs legally beginning 2/1. 1 in 3 Pepsi bottle caps will have a code to get a free song from the store.. This is running for 60 days. Steve Jobs says: “Start Drinking.” Rob Duffy says: “Holy shit!”
Garage Band
New Apple software. Complete music recording software. Digitally mix up to 64 tracks. 1,000 musical loops built in. Record live audio performances. 200 audio effects. Vintage and modern guitar amps.
John Mayer came out and helped demo it. Makes it less cool by 5%.
Will this be a serious competitor for Pro Tools? I don’t know.
$49. Free with every new Mac.
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