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  • Odyssey Number Five

    • 10 out of 10
    • Powderfinger
    • Guitar-driven rock out of Australia, Powderfinger has not seen much exposure in the States, but should get a nod for their toe-tapping songs. Building off their previous release, "Internationalist" (
  • Zooropa

    • 10 out of 10
    • U2
    • This record is perhaps U2's finest hour, yet it has been forgotten as a strange by-product of the ZooTV tour's overload, and is generally regarded by most fans as a poor effort. It is this sentiment t
  • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

    • 8 out of 10
    • Arctic Monkeys
    • Get on your dancing shoes
      You sexy little swine

      -Arctic

  • An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Torm�

    • 10 out of 10
    • Mel Torm� & George Shearing
    • Of the three men who taught me how to sing, the last was Mel Torme. Apparently, Mel Torme is a joke to anyone more than a decade older than me, a living parody of a Vegas crooner. But I stumbled on th
  • Physical Graffiti

    • 10 out of 10
    • Led Zeppelin
    • This album bears every flavor of genius from the five records that came before. It is, I believe, the band's finest. With Physical Graffiti, Zep came raging back to their musical home territory -- har

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Report: Apple & Major Labels Reach iTunes Pricing Agreement

Apple Computer has announced an agreement with four of the Big Five major record labels that leaves pricing for singles at the iTunes Music Store (iTMS), according to a CBS Marketwatch report. Universal, Warner Music , EMI and Sony BMG have all signed new agreements with Apple, though additional details are heretofore not available.

If confirmed, such a deal caps months of reports that record labels were attempting to get variable pricing at the iTMS that would allow them to charge more for some songs (specifically newer material from popular artists), while ostensibly charging less for older material.

Apple has resisted that, with company execs stating publicly that the $.99 price point for singles has been key to the iTMS's success, where Apple has sold more than one billion songs since April of 2003 when the iTMS was launched.

It's that success that reportedly won the argument for Apple in the long run. "The labels need Apple too much right now," one record executive told CBS Marketwatch.

iPodObserver.com is working on confirming the story with Apple.

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