Wine Journal for iPhone and iPod Touch

Monday, August 21, 2006

iTunes Holdouts No More

Major recording artists that cannot be found on iTunes:
The Beatles
Garth Brooks
Kid Rock
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Radiohead
Bob Seger

Metallica caved last month and it looks like Kid Rock and Seger are on the verge. I would predict The Beatles and Brooks to be the last ones to give in. With Apple v. Apple, a miracle agreement would have to be forged to break The Beatles' online drought. It'll take some kind of marketing blitz to make it worthwhile. 30th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's is next year -- I'm just saying. Brooks is in bed with Wal-mart but doesn't even make his music available on their iTunes rival service. Most of the other artists claim album integrity and fault iTunes for focusing only on single tunes. Weak argument in my opinion. I can't imagine Kid Rock can sustain a full album's worth of good material anyway!

No comments: