“Beatles Fail to Ignite on iTunes in UK” plus 2

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• Beatles Fail to Ignite on iTunes in UK
• Beatles Cut a Better iTunes Royalty Deal
• The Beatles, Cisco's Tablet, Netflix, and More

Beatles Fail to Ignite on iTunes in UK Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:44 PM PST By Nick Spence, macworld.co.uk    Despite Apple's announcement last week that The Beatles are finally available legally online via the iTunes Store, Beatlemania has failed to ignite the UK charts. "Hey Jude" entered The Official UK Top 40 Single Chart at number 40, hopefully not as a result of Wagner's painful cover version on Saturday's The X-Factor. As for albums, The Beatles 1967-1970 "Blue" compilation is at 32, The Beatles 1962-1966 "Red" compilation at 33. Both 1973 albums have been digitally remastered and likely benefit from being available in stores and supermarkets since October. "Please Please Me," "With the Beatles," "A Hard Day's Night," "Beatles for Sale," "Help!," "Rubber Soul," "Revolver," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," "Magical Mystery Tour," The "White Album," "Yellow Submarine," "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be" are all now available via iTunes, along with individual songs from those albums. Additionally compilations "The Beatles - Past Masters," Vols. 1 & 2 are also available along with a bumper Beatles Box Set. Some observers have suggested the lack of Beatles chart success has been down to pricing, with physical CD copies being significantly cheaper than buying digitally. Single albums are available for from iTunes for £10.99 each, double albums for £17.99 each and individual songs for 99p each. The Beatles Box Set meanwhile, which includes all the band's original studio albums plus the Past Masters collection, costs £125. On CD, many of The Beatles best known albums cost £7.99, while "The Beatles Box Set" - Remastered in Stereo by The Beatles can be had for £119.99. The double "Red" and "Blue" compilations meanwhile are also available from £7.99 each, Past Masters from £14.49. It would appear not everyone shares Apple's CEO Steve Jobs' enthusiasm for all things Beatles. Last week Jobs said: "We love the Beatles and are honored and thrilled to welcome them to iTunes." "It has been a long and winding road to get here. Thanks to the Beatles and EMI, we are now realizing a dream we've had since we launched iTunes ten years ago." Pundits meanwhile, are back predicting The X-Factor winner will be once again be Number One this Christmas, despite various Facebook-led campaigns hoping otherwise. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs.

Beatles Cut a Better iTunes Royalty Deal Posted: 15 Feb 2011 07:48 PM PST By Ben Camm-Jones, Macworld-U.K.    The Beatles could be making much more money from selling their music on iTunes than other artists, it has been claimed. According to Reuters industry insiders report that the terms of the deal between the Fab Four and Apple may be far more groundbreaking than first imagined, with direct payments being made from iTunes download sales to Apple Corps, the band's company. The report also claims that songwriting mechanical royalties are paid directly to Sony/ATV Music Publishing, which owns the rights to most of the band's catalogue. None of the companies involved have made an official comment on the matter. However, if the sources cited in the report are correct, it could mean that the deals are far more lucrative for Apple Corps than standard artist-retailer deals. Usually when an album is released the record label -- which in this case would be EMI -- takes responsibility for licensing and collecting wholesale revenue from retailers, a percentage of which is then paid to the publisher and artists in the form of royalties. Big artists generally receive 20 to 25 percent. The sources claim that the deal between The Beatles and iTunes is more like a licensing pact, where revenue from use of a master recording is split evenly between an artist and the record label. Artists including Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers have argued that digital download deals should be seen as a licensing pact rather than a standard arrangement and both took their record labels to court in an attempt to win what they saw as their fair share of royalties. The Cheap Trick case was settled out of court but the Allman Brothers' case is ongoing. The Beatles' music finally made it into iTunes in October 2010, after years of wrangling, which suggests that the final deal struck between both sides was anything but typical. However, we would again stress that these reports are unconfirmed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Collateral Damage - WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs.

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