Independent record labels failed by Apple
updated 09:55 pm EDT, Fri September 17, 2004
Indie music at iTunes UK?
Apple is struggling to offer available at its iTunes Music store, despite an agreement with Apple to license their music, according to The Independent: "Thousands of tracks by independent artists, including the single certain to top the charts tomorrow and all the songs by the Mercury prize winners Franz Ferdinand, are still unavailable on iTunes, three months after its UK launch. Independent record labels spoke of their frustration last night that, despite an agreement to license their music to iTunes, Apple had still not made their work available to fans." Apple responded by saying that it was working with them and "hundreds of other labels" to make the content available "as quickly as possible."
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Joined: Mar 2004
They dragged their feet
before the launch so that Apple couldn't have the content ready on time and now they blame Apple because of the time taken to set things up. Whinging Poms! Always complaining about something. They'll be complaining that Apple is selling too many of their songs next and they can't figure out how to spend all of the money they're making.