Starbucks brings Hear Music catalog to Apple's iTunes
Starbucks and Apple Comptuer on Thursday announced the availability of the Starbucks Hear Music catalog on the iTunes Store, giving iTunes users the ability to preview, buy and download a wide variety of Starbucks popular Hear Music titles.
Starbucks Hear Music offerings will be available in a special new Starbucks Entertainment area within the iTunes Store and will include a wide variety of popular content as well as playlists created specifically for iTunes.
âWeâre excited to work with iTunes to add a significant new digital experience to the innovative buying experience weâve been offering in Starbucks locations for more than 10 years," said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment. âMany of our customers want to listen to our music on their iPods, and now that will be easier than ever.â
The Starbucks Entertainment area within iTunes will feature a wide variety of playlists including unique music hand-picked by the same Starbucks Hear Music content team responsible for selecting the music played in Starbucks stores around the world.
Playlists and content will be updated frequently and will also include digital versions of many of Hear Musicâs popular CD series and co-releases such as the Marvin Gaye Opus Collection and Sonya Kitchellâs Words Came Back to Me, which was released as part of Starbucks ongoing Hear Music Debut CD series, the two companies said. Customers can purchase either the entire playlist or individual tracks from the Starbucks Hear Music playlists.
Also on Thursday, Apple announced that the iTunes Store now features over 3.5 million songs, 65,000 podcasts, 20,000 audiobooks, over 5,000 music videos and 220 television shows.
18 Comments
oh and the 75+ movies you yanks have too!
I cant wait till all the services go international, or to the UK anyway!
I have a strange thirst for some coffee now....
I think Apple might do better if they offered some way to buy new tunes through a kiosk.
Must be a slow news day... like seriously?
Oooh. They could have them in all of the Apple stores. Plug in your iPod, choose music, insert credit card number.... Ooo! Better yet you could have your credit card number on the iPod and then you could skip a step and download as soon as you select it. Ooo! Ooo! You could put all of your financial information on the iPod and buy anything by just sticking your iPod into the iKeosk at the grocery store or the gas station. Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! you could put all of your medical records on it so when you went from doctor to doctor no one would wonder about previous diagnoses or your blood type. Ooo! Ooo! Ooo! We could put all of our personal identification on it so when we could give up all of our drivers licences and passports and just look at all of the information on the iPodiDendification to verify that we are ourselves. Ooooooo... then you could leave it in the back of the bus and some bum could steal you. Oh well. nice thoughts.
I can see it now...
iPod + Starbucks
Monitor your Latte no-whip-half-caff-no-foam-shot-of-raspberry's temperature while you peruse nutrition facts about your caramel-apple danish with the new iPod + Starbucks package. Comes with an emo-sensing taser to ward off misfortune whilst listening to your Stock Analyst's PodCasts.
*Shaw Wu not included.
-Clive