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  • Beyonc breaks iTunes records

    Beyonc breaks iTunes records

    Pop star Beyonce looks to be rising on the chartbusters list. Her self-titled album, Beyonce has become the fastest selling album ever on the iTunes Store.

     

    With an unprecedented 828,773 albums sold in just its first three days, the album has broke the US first week album sales record with 617,213 sold and proved to be a global success going to number one in 104 countries, announced Apple.

     

    Beyonce is the fifth solo studio album from Beyonce, which was made available exclusively worldwide on the iTunes Store on 13 December by Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia Records. The self-titled set is the artist’s first visual album.

    The album has 14 new songs and 17 visually stunning, provocative videos shot around the world from Houston to New York City to Paris, and cto Rio de Janeiro, all before the album’s release. The album represents Beyonce’s biggest sales week ever.

  • MGM adds three more shows to iTunes store

    MGM adds three more shows to iTunes store

    MUMBAI: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) has added more programming from MGM’s television library to iTunes Store. 

    The 22 half-hour episodes from the first season of the television classic The Addams Family are available on iTunes.

    Other popular MGM classics, including 32 one-hour episodes from the first season of the original science fiction series The Outer Limits and 32 half-hour episodes of the animated Pink Panther television series will also be available from the iTunes Store later this week.

    “We are excited to launch more of MGM’s premium and classic television programming through the iTunes Store,” said Doug Lee, MGM new media division executive vice president. “We have over 10,000 hours of television programming so making MGM hit series available to the iTunes community is a great way for us to continue our expansion in the new media world.”

    Earlier this year MGM made episodes of the hit science fiction/adventure series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis available for purchase and download through the iTunes Store. 

    Since forming its new media division in April of this year and recruiting Lee to supervise the unit, MGM continues to expand in the new media world, exercising the upside potential of the company’s massive programming library. Additional new media announcements are expected in the future.