The hole has since been patched, but on Friday people were able to download the full copy of Daft Punk's new 'Random Access Memories' album for free… from iTunes.
May 20th, 2013 by Music Ally
The prospects of a June WWDC announcement for Apple's 'iRadio' service remain in flux, with a pair of reports on Friday pointing to more licensing roadblocks for the personal radio service.
May 16th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Apple's App Store has passed 50bn app downloads for iOS devices, and it was indie band OK Go whose app hit the milestone. Apple announced today that Ohio resident Brandon Ashmore downloaded the band's...
May 13th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
If you've yet to have your fill of pretty charts about Apple's iTunes, check out Asymco's latest piece of analysis on how the company's content business is growing. It brings together the most recent...
May 10th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
There's more speculation on the to-and-fro of negotiations for Apple's planned 'iRadio' streaming music service in the Financial Times, with label deals portrayed as a continued stumbling-block for Apple's...
April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
Strange though it may seem, given our youthful good looks, Music Ally's fortnightly digital music report was already 61 issues down when Apple launched its iTunes music store in April 2003. So how were...
April 29th, 2013 by Music Ally
IDC notes that Q1 2013 was the first quarter ever when more smartphones shipped than feature phones, with Samsung accelerating away from second-placed Apple – 70.7m and 37.4m smartphone shipments respectively
April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge
It's been fun this weekend looking back at issue 62 of the Music Ally report (pictured), published on 9 May 2003 just after Apple had launched its iTunes music store and sold 1m tracks in its first week. "Half...
April 25th, 2013 by Music Ally
Happy birthday, iTunes Music Store. Well, almost: the store was launched on 28 April 2003 with a catalogue of 200k tracks, and went on to sell 1m downloads in its first week.
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