Then, in walks Apple with a compelling idea: People who are motivated to steal music will continue to do so. And so was born the iTunes Music Store. It controlled the cloud-based store. It created the client that people would use to purchase the music—iTunes which Apple wisely gave away for free. And, above all, it owned the most popular music player of the time, the iPod. While other companies struggled to cobble together music services that clumsily delivered heavily protected music to a handful of third-party also-ran music players, Apple owned and operated all the component parts.
The only thing the company needed was the consent of the content owners. Browsing artists in an early version of the iTunes Music Store. Happy as those executives were when ever-juicier checks rolled in, that happiness dissipated when the labels felt their control slipping away. Over time, the labels have regained some authority. These services, which the labels call "access models," have grown in a very short time to make up 15 percent of the industry's total revenue pdf.
Apple may now let users load songs from the cloud and access them via the internet, but the iTunes business model has remained largely unchanged. Of the top subscription and streaming services, not one has reported profits, so it isn't certain whether these services will pan out.
But there's no doubt that they're starting to find an audience at the same time as iTunes — when it comes to music — appears to be standing still. That said, Apple is still keeping pace with its main competition, and neither Amazon nor Google have launched music subscription services yet.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Share: Facebook Twitter. Additional reporting by Greg Sandoval Ten years ago this month, a music sector ravaged by Napster and largely ignorant of digital distribution found a savior of sorts in what was then called the iTunes Music Store.
A new model. All the major record companies signed one-year deals, and found themselves captive to iTunes explosive growth "They were the undisputed leader with no one touching them," said Jason Hirschhorn, a former exec at MTV, MySpace, and Sling Media.
The legacy. Offered a la carte downloads as well as subscriptions. Napster : Originally known for being the first P2P music sharing service to gain a widespread following, relaunched numerous times by Roxio and Best Buy before eventually being purchased by Rhapsody. Users could transfer their subscriptions to Rhapsody. Subscription based; users could pay extra to download individual songs to burn to CD or put on a portable player. SpiralFrog : Opened in September , shuttered in March of Ad-supported and allowed free downloading of music.
Only offered songs from two of the top labels. Was built into Windows Media Player 11 and offered subscriptions as well as single-track purchasing. Started with 1. Imeem : Founded in , the service evolved into a social network that let users share tracks with each other. Like SpiralFrog, it offered free listening to users and then tried to support itself through ad sales. MySpace acquired the company's assets and shut down the service in Project Playlist : Opened in , it let users locate freely available songs online typically pirated and create playlists that could be posted to MySpace and Facebook.
The labels sued and then prompted MySpace to block the playlists. The company went bankrupt in Sony Connect : This was Sony's failed attempt to duplicate iTunes. While Sony could never get Sony's music label, software, and hardware divisions to cooperate, its efforts were plagued most by poor software.
The store closed in March MOG : Founded in , the paid subscription service competitive with Rdio and Spotify sold out cheap to Beats Electronics , the company behind the ubiquitous headphones. Transitioned to Xbox Music in October , though desktop, mobile, and Xbox apps still work.
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