With music sales dwindling and streaming services being adopted at an increasing rate, Apple is reportedly considering killing off iTunes music downloads altogether.

One Direction, Disclosure, Florence & The Machine and Pharrell Williams will be appearing at the rebranded Apple Music Festival next month. Apple announced on Tuesday that the musicians will be among the headlining performers at the 10-night festival at London’s iconic Roundhouse in Camden this coming September. 

Apple has confirmed that its new streaming service has attracted more than 11 million members during its free trial period just one month after launching. The three month trial period was rolled out when Apple Music launched on June 30. Nearly 2 million people opted for the free trial family plan which allows up to six family members to use […]

Is there anything Taylor Swift can’t do? She is the biggest pop star in the world right now, she’s broken YouTube records for most viewed video on YouTube for the release of her ‘Bad Blood’ film clip and now it seems she’s the world’s most effective lobbyist. In a single letter she’s managed to get Apple to change their controversial policy of not […]

Mere days before Apple’s new streaming service is due to launch (on 30 June) a number of independent music labels have voiced their concerns about the licensing terms. Under the terms proposed by Apple, artists and labels would receive no royalties during the three-month free trail period users enjoy when they first sign up for the service – and they’re not happy […]

   The way we consume music is changing. Across the course of three decades the music industry has seen a shift from cassettes to CDs to digital downloads and now, increasingly, we’re having our music streamed to us either through our computers or other digital devices. And, like they have done in the personal computer, smartphone and tablet markets, Apple is set […]

If you like to tweet about that song or album you currently have on repeat, you might be thrilled to know that you can earn from that mere habit. As revealed by Evolver.fm, Twitter is a ceritified iTunes affiliate. Once you tweet with an iTunes link, a ‘view album’ option can now be seen near the retweet and favorite buttons.  Your followers can easily stream […]

If you’re one of those people who still spend an amount of time listening to radio, then you must have at least  experienced hearing a song and instantly loving it – but to your dismay, unable to catch who was singing it and what it’s called. Most people resort to remembering lines from the song and typing them up on Google, […]

It was a big week at the Apple headquarters as they’ve just released the new iPhone 5, drawing lines of fans and techies eager to get their hands on it. Also released on the same day was their new Apple EarPods ($29), a definite improvement from the Apple Earbuds.  Designed by Apple, the EarPods are “defined by the geometry of […]

Good news: Apple has finally launched the iTunes store to a whopping 12 countries in the Asian region! Users from Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Vietnam can now enjoy an incredible load of local and international music from major and independent labels, featuring the likes of Asian sensations Jay Chou and […]

The poor folks over at Apple must be shaking in their boots. Yesterday’s somewhat embarrassing unveiling of the iPhone4S (instead the iPhone5, as promised) has sparked a renewed interest in the progress of iCloud; Apple’s largest online music and data storage space, conceptualized as a means of keeping information in the same place, aka. Not localized to a particular phone, […]