Posted August 8, 200618 yr I know the Beatles do not have individual tracks available online for whatever reason (possibly to do with their legal battles with Apple Computers). I tried to download some Elton John songs and I noticed he's missing from iTunes and Tesco too. Only his Disney work and the awful 'Electricity' are available. Another example is the Fugees. Their album 'The Score' is available but one of its singles (and the song I'm actually after) 'Fu-gee-la' is missing. Does anyone know why some artists, or some tracks from albums, are missing from the online stores? Is it a label thing? Or do some artists want to make us buy the album?
August 8, 200618 yr Radiohead don't either, only their tracks which are on compilation allbums are on iTunes. I don't know why they do, probably that they want people to buy their albums rather than download seperate tracks. I think if any released a new single they'd have to put it up though.
August 8, 200618 yr The Beatles have entered into negotiations about putting some of their music on download sites, but there is still an ongoing Apple problem, and until that is sorted out it may take a while to have the music on-line. It was almost the same when CDs came out in the 80s, the Beatles had legal problems that prevented the release of some of their albums on CD...
August 8, 200618 yr by the way, that is Apple the record label, not Apple the on-line site, that is a completely different problem. They certainly won't be making their music available on iTunes, I would imagine!
August 8, 200618 yr I know (from Beatles forums) that the Beatles back catalogue is being digitally remastered, with the plan for their studio albums to be reissued (for the first time in 20 years) on CD, whilst being available at the same time to legally download, although probably not to i-Tunes users. They hope it the release dates could start in mid/late spring 2007. But in the meantime their "Love (Cirque Du Soleil OST)" could be the first release in the digitally remastered form in November 2006. Apparently it is "penciled in" EMI's release schedule for November20th - the same day as Oasis' Best Of: Stop The Clocks". :o
August 8, 200618 yr Author Cool. It's annoying though - I'm used to being able to buy the odd tracks I like. I don't want to buy an Elton John album when I only like 2 songs. I just want to spend my £1.60 and be done with the man. He's so successful you'd think he or his record label would not care if people just bought the odd song. But does anyone have any theories about why odd songs cannot be downloaded, but the rest of the album can? Take the Fugees as an example. It appears all tracks but one are avilable from iTunes
August 17, 200618 yr Author I'm bumping this. Does anyone know why iTunes sometimes sell only partial albums? Edited August 17, 200618 yr by Tim
August 17, 200618 yr Author they dont sell Janet Jacksons Older Stuff that really annoys me!!! You can get 'Design Of A Decade' cheaply enough. That may serve the purpose.
August 17, 200618 yr You can get 'Design Of A Decade' cheaply enough. That may serve the purpose. Oh yeah forgot she brought that out! I will just get that then! :D Edited August 17, 200618 yr by Ryan_P
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