The iTunes Music Store, launched by Apple on April 28, 2003, marked a pivotal moment in the history of digital media. Conceived at a time when music piracy through platforms like Napster ran rampant, ...

Throughout the 20th century, the dominant method of music distribution changed many times over, from live-only performances to records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3 players. But the most drastic ...

On April 28, 2003, in San Francisco, Steve Jobs raised the curtain on the iTunes Music Store and, as we journalists like to do, I gazed into my crystal ball in an attempt to explain the broad, ...

Apple certainly changed the music industry with the iPod and with the iTunes Music Store, which made it possible for customers to buy individual songs for very low prices. Interestingly, a 2003 email ...

A number of MacFixIt readers, and posters to Apple's Discussion boards, are noting a problem with the iTunes Music Store after updating to iTunes 4.7. MacFixIt reader Jon Breitenbucher describes the ...

I love iTunes Plus, Apple’s digital rights management (DRM)-free catalog of tracks in the iTunes music store — I’m buying music left and right on iTunes again. But I still have some iTunes tracks that ...

Well on its way to serving up a quarter-billion iTunes tracks by next Spring, Apple claims to have sold over 200 million tunes to date. Apple today announced that music fans have purchased and ...

Apple and PayPal today announced that the iTunes Music Store in the US will now accept PayPal for purchases of music downloads, audiobooks and gift certificates. Starting today, iTunes Music Store ...

Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday. The early sales success suggests that people will pay for music ...

The increasing popularity of audio streaming services has led to a decline in Apple's iTunes revenue share from music purchases. The share of iTunes revenue generated from the iTunes Music Store has ...

Frazzled users began posting urgent help messages Monday and Tuesday on Apple's technical forum for iTunes, complaining they were either not allowed into the store or were told the system couldn't ...

Call me unusual, but I don’t keep any music on my iPhone—I have an iPod touch for that. In the not-too-distant past, the Music app on my iPhone would show no music, which is exactly what I want. But ...