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iTunes Price Changes Hurt Some Rankings
iTunes Price Changes Hurt Some Rankings
April 10, 2009 - Digital and Mobile By Glenn Peoples, Nashville Two days after the Apple iTunes Music Store raised prices on some individual tracks, there was evidence the increases have hurt the sales rankings of songs given the higher $1.29 price. While it is difficult to say with certainty ...
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$1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular [ITunes]
Gizmodo — ... Billboard's crack scientists conducted a quick study on a mysterious new phenomenon: More expensive $1.29 songs on iTunes are becoming less popular! (Actually, the results will surprise you.) ...

Músicas da iTunes a US$1,29 despencam em rankings do Billboard
MacMagazine — ... na iTunes Store elevaria a popularidade de músicas, mas também não dava pra imaginar que as mais caras afetariam tanto os rankings de vendas, reporta o Billboard.biz. Parece que o preço elevado tem compensado e as gravadoras em si não começaram a perder dinheiro, mas isso por enquanto — a queda em vendas não pode superar 23,3%, segundo cálculos. ...

Shock: iTunes price increase hurts songs’ chart positions
CrunchGear — ... Good Heavens. Billboard must have broken out its abacus as it was calculating this little number: songs on the iTunes Store that saw their ...

iTunes Store's new pricing scheme effects the charts, that Lightspeed Champion guy expresses surprise
Engadget — ... An interesting sidenote on the intersection of music and commerce: Billboard reported last week that the iTunes Store's new variable pricing plan has had a bit of an impact on sales rankings on individual tracks, giving $.99 songs an advantage over their ...

What's Your Online Resource For Paid, Digital Music?
GeekSugar — ... for popular songs to $1.29, many of those popular songs have dropped in download ranking (that's one way to get them back down to 99 cents!). ...

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