Friday, April 10, 2009

$1.29 songs dropping on iTunes charts

Electronista | $1.29 songs dropping on iTunes charts: "The institution of variable song prices on iTunes has directly translated to a decrease in the popularity of the more expensive songs, Billboard finds in a short-term study of the immediate wake of the change. Those songs that were boosted to a $1.29 price typically fell 5.3 places on iTunes' Top 100 charts on Wednesday and another 2 places on Thursday. In exchange, those songs that kept their 99-cent pricing rose an average of 2.5 spots on Wednesday and 1.7 on Thursday.

In some cases, the changes were enough to push certain songs off the chart altogether. How 69-cent songs have been affected isn't clear, though these are usually older or less popular titles that are unlikely to chart."

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