Joe McElderry X Factor single sparks UK download price war
So Rage Against The Machine are going to deny X Factor winner Joe McElderry the Christmas Number One in the UK, are they? A Facebook campaign says yes, but massive discounts of the former single online suggest not.
Online download stores Tesco and Amazon are selling the MP3 of McElderry’s The Climb for £0.29 – undercutting iTunes’ price of £0.99. EDIT - as a commenter points out, the RATM single is also £0.29 on Amazon.
It’s part of a wider price war as Apple’s rivals try to seize market share in the run-up to Christmas by discounting – Tesco is also chopping the price of the Top 10 albums when bought digitally.
Interestingly, McElderry’s single isn’t streamable on Spotify, but is on we7. We wonder what the thought process is behind that decision.
UPDATE: It seems Rage Against The Machine are narrowly beating McElderry based on Sunday and Monday digital sales…
Tags: Amazon, iTunes, joe mcelderry, tesco, x factor
December 15th, 2009 at 10:49 am
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December 15th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Killing in the name of is 29p on amazon also
December 15th, 2009 at 11:15 am
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
i LOVE YOU SO MUCH Joe
December 16th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Hi guys: re your comment – “Interestingly, McElderry’s single isn’t streamable on Spotify, but is on we7. We wonder what the thought process is behind that decision.”
Maybe the thought was that to reach the mass market of fans it is best to use a web service that streams in-browser, not an application that has first to be downloaded? There is no barrier for new and old fans to access music on we7. If you can use Google you can listen on we7. In the end the web always wins. Probably not a bad thought….
John Taysom, Founder, we7.
December 18th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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December 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hi Everyone my name is Ioan Davies i think about Joe McElderry is like star has been born i voted for him for Three times i knew he would get though just because i had six sance one of his songs was Amazing it was called Dance with my farther that was one of my beat one’s so far my other song was The Climb and that was also one of my best one’s as well