When Apple launched its iTunes music store a decade ago amid the ashes of Napster, the music industry — reeling from the effects of online piracy — was anxious to see how the new music service ...

On April 28, 2003, Steve Jobs announced the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs and a few exclusives that not only changed the record industry then, it paved the way to today's streaming.

On April 28, 2003, in San Francisco, Steve Jobs raised the curtain on the iTunes Music Store and, as we journalists like to do, I gazed into my crystal ball in an attempt to explain the broad ...

With iTunes, Apple had drawn the blueprint for distributing music, movies, books, and apps over the web. By supplying and tying together a music player, online store, and song-mangement software ...

The iTunes Music Store came along at a time when piracy plagued the music business. Crupnick says that at one point 50 percent of college students were using services like LimeWire to download ...

At launch, the iTunes Music Store offered over 200,000 songs from music labels such as Sony, Universal, and Warner, with free 30-second previews of any song.

As music streaming dominates culture, Apple's iTunes Music Store was one of the first to digitize legal music libraries. Its Free Singles of the Week led a corporate charge for "human curation ...

Everyone knows Apple’s iTunes store sells a lot of music, but its latest numbers are positively stratospheric. The reigning champion of digital music has sold over five billion songs since its ...

On Tuesday, Apple announced that after six years, the iTunes Store would soon completely stop selling music encumbered by digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. What does that mean for you ...

Yes, iTunes may be clunky, slow, and annoying, but it isn’t entirely bad—especially once you know how to dig up free, legal music straight from the iTunes Music Store. Free On iTunes. Guess ...