Apple has reached their milestone of 10 billion downloaded songs with the help of Johnny Cash and Louie Sulcer, the winner of a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card and a congratulatory call from Mr Apple himself, Steve Jobs. But can the iTunes success continue?

Joe McElderry has just been announced the winner of the x-factor 2009 in the UK and the new single “The Climb” is made immediately available for download, but can it make it number 1 for Xmas against the many established artists, and the Rage Against the Machine campaign?

Apple has acquired online cloud computing music service lala.com and speculation is increasing around their plans. Could we see streaming service or cloud computing storage for iTunes, or is it just a strategic move for talent and technology from Steve Jobs?

Apple has released another upgrade in iTunes 9.0.2 providing support for Apple TV 3.0 and once again blocking out the Palm Pre sync. Since the launch of the new and improved iTunes 9 a few months ago, smaller releases has been made to provide additional features.

We have taken an inside look at the new features of iTunes 9 and the redesigned iTunes Store, and there are some great new additions to be found. The new design of the store is more user friendly and cleaner, with improved navigation. Most important though is the app management.

iTunes 9 is rumored to be just a month away packed with new features, including blu-ray support, better app management, and integration social media, like facebook, twitter, and last.fm. We have looked into what the impact of this could be and why we are excited about iTunes 9.

The new version of iTunes 8.1 features more than just speed and processing upgrades, as the most exciting new feature is the iTunes DJ that combined with the remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch will allow your party guests to vote on songs or recommend new songs to the playlist.

One of the questions many seem to have about the iPod is how they can get that great song off their friends iPod onto their own without having to go and buy it themselves, or perhaps they only want to back up the content of their iPod to their new computer. Along comes Cucusoft iPod to Computer Transfer software.

New York Governor David Paterson has proposed hitting music downloads with a 4% iPod tax. The so called “iTax” is one of 137 new proposed taxes that will help New York ease the budget crisis and includes taxing music, movie, ebooks, and all other digital downloaded entertainment.

It has just been announced that Alexandra Burke is the winner of this years X-Factor and her single “Halleluja” will be available to download from midnight tonite so make sure you get your hands on this guaranteed Christmas number 1 song. Download links here.

Earlier in the summer we wrote about Amazon executives being in London to talk to the record companies about their new MP3 download store opening for UK customers as well after their successfull launch in the US market. After forgetting about for a while in the midst of lots of iPod news this fall, we […]

One of the announcement on Tuesdays iPod conference in San Francisco was the release of the new and improved iTunes 8 with some new and interesting features, especially the Genius playlist functionalilty.

Update! The Amazon MP3 music download store is now open for business in the UK.
According to BrandRepublic, Amazon is looking to launch their MP3 music download service in the UK before October this year as executives from the US Amazon store holds meetings in London with record companies.
The Amazon MP3 download service launched in the […]

According to the largest academic study undertaken in the UK on young people’s music ownership the average teenagers iPod or digital music player contains over 800 illegally copied songs.

BBC recently reported that Apple will be starting to offer movies for renting or purchasing through iTunes in the UK.
This is a service that has been available in the US for a while now, but now it will also come to the UK. In the beginning they will offer about 700 titles, including about 100 […]

Since its famous beginning offering free music downloads, Napster is now completely legit and now they are taking on the giant in iTunes.
Napster has lately been focusing on offering all-you-can-eat monthly streaming music subscribtions, but like many others they have realised that people like to have the freedom to add their music to their favourite […]

It didn’t take long after Microsoft announced that famous HBO shows like ‘Sex and the City‘, ‘The Wire‘ and ‘The Sopranos‘ would be available from their download store until Apple could announce that the shows would be available to download through iTunes as well.
So if you are looking to freshen up on ‘Sex and the […]

In a move to for sure capitalize on the enormous user base of their social networking service, Myspace has gone into a partnership with 3 out of the 4 major record labels to deliver a music service online that will compete with Apple itunes.
Myspace Music will offer the user free music and video streaming supported […]

Apple has just recently released update 7.6.2 for iTunes, which is the latest version of their digital media management application.
According to Apple the update release includes bug fixes to improve stability and performance. From reading some of the comments online about this update it looks like it has fixed the bug where the last few […]

This story has been all over the internet today, about Apple looking into the possibilities of a premier itunes service for ipod owners where music will be made available for free. Sounds great doesn’t it.
According to the Financial Times, Apple is currently in discussions with major music labels about a new subscription model that will […]

According to news source MP3.com, MySpace is looking into the possibilities of launching their own music store to rival itunes and the soon to be launched music service from Amazon.
The social network giant owned by News Corp is reportedly in talks with the four major record labels on a new ad-supported music service targeting the […]

The Danish trio Outlandish released their first album back in 2000 (Outland’s official) which received critical acclaim for songs like ‘Walou’. Since then they have released one more studio album ‘Bread & Barrels of water’ in 2002, which included songs like ‘Guantanamo’ and ‘Aicha’. Although their style of music has its base in American hip […]

According to US consumer study consumers made nearly 1 million searches online for ipod related commercials in august 2007, including over 425,000 searches for the song in the Apple ipod nano tv commercial in september.
The song that was used in the famous ipod nano commercial is Leslie Feist ‘1-2-3-4′ . […]

The king of blues rock is back with his much awaited 8th studio album “It is time for a love revolution” continuing in the lines of the legendary songs of previous albums. The album features the hit singles ‘Bring it on’ and ‘I’ll be waiting’ as solid examples of the quality and style of his […]

If you are among the many that does not really like iTunes but are stuck using it because you love your ipod? Then there is an alternative available for downloading now.
Floola is a fast and free programme that works with Windows, Mac and Linux, and has more or less all the functionality of iTunes, plus […]

According to iLounge.com, Amazon has revealed that they will be taking their MP3 offer internationally in 2008. No exact dates have been set for the different countries yet, but we will keep you posted.
Amazon’s DRM free MP3 digital music store should become a serious competitor for iTunes and others as they will bring music from […]

For those of you that saw or read about the big new releases at the macworld conference in San Francisco yesterday probably also picked up on that you will now be able to rent videos on itunes. Apparently you will be able to rent videos there for £2 for your ipod, which is not bad […]