Beatles on iTunes by Milota Sidorova

It's amazing how even after decades Beatles can still grab some media attention and be the target of gossips. But this time, it is not the music that is the main „in“ thing when speaking of this breaking edge music group. Apple's iTunes has released the report in which it proudly showed it finally got the rights to sell Beatles via this music shop. After years on failing agreements between Apple and EMI Grouprecording company, two sides finally found a common dialogue. They talked business. According to Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Forrester Research it was Steve Jobs's personal goal – to get Beatles to the digital sale on iTunes. But although Beatles with! all its 13 albums can be downloaded from no.1 digital music retailer, it may not be that break through as it was expected. According to some analysts Beatles have waited much too long and missed the period their music was demanded via digital download. Still fundamental fans are buying physical Cds and considerable part of customers use illegal download.There is also a fact that Beatles have finished long time ago and nothing really new except of remastered album collections and Best of the Best has been coming out. One of the reasons it took so long to sell it via iTunes were also major disagreements between two living Beatles members and two widows after Lenon and Harrison about this way of selling the music. And another hint why EMI has finally agreed to sell their music via digital download are current financial problems of the company that lost the ground against major rivals Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group or Sony music. EMI is owned by TerraFirma that has recentl! y lost a court case against Citigroup and paid 4 billion pound! s for ch arges.

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by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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