New Prices on Apple’s iTunes
That single, comforting price of 99 cents for all songs in the iTunes music store is being replaced today by three pricing tiers: 69 cents for the oldies-but-not-so-goodies, $1.29 for some hot new hits, and 99 cents for nearly everything else. Apple is setting the prices based on the wholesale prices set by the music labels.
Apple described the changes in January at Macworld, but today we have the first specific indications of how the music labels will approach the new tiers. Here’s a quick first look. Thirty-three of the top 100 songs now sell at $1.29 — and the rest at 99 cents.
Sony BMG has priced the recent Pink single “So What” and the elegantly titled Kelly Clarkson single, “My Life Would Suck Without You,” at $1.29.
via Making Sense of New Prices on Apple’s iTunes – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
