{"id":745173,"date":"2013-04-05T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=416774"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:55:22","slug":"apple-reportedly-close-to-finishing-iradio-deal-with-two-major-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/745173","title":{"rendered":"Apple reportedly close to finishing \u2018iRadio\u2019 deal with two major labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/05\/apple-iradio-deal-record-labels-416774\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/apple-records.jpg?w=650&#038;h=401&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C401\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple iRadio Deal\" title=\"Apple Records\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sorry, Pandora \u2014 you won't be able to escape <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) iRadio after all. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57578062-37\/for-labels-apples-iradio-deal-could-be-sweeter-than-pandora\/\"><em>CNET<\/em> reports that Apple is close<\/a> to signing a deal with two major record labels that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/apple-record-company-royalty-dispute-363012\/\">would pay the labels half the per-song royalties that they receive from Pandora<\/a> but would also add sweeteners to the deal that would give the labels added revenues. Among other things, <em>CNET<\/em> says that Apple will provide \"a quick way for consumers to buy a song they hear, potentially boosting download sales from\u00a0iTunes\" and also give the record labels\u00a0\"a revenue share of new audio ads Apple is planning to add to the free service.\" Given that the service will be centered around iTunes and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/29\/apple-iradio-launch-date-rumor-403955\/\">available on all iOS devices<\/a>, it seems that the labels are willing to take less in per-song royalties in exchange for potentially much wider exposure than what they get from Pandora.<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/sH9sofGLiqM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, Pandora \u2014 you won&#8217;t be able to escape Apple&#8217;s (AAPL) iRadio after all. CNET reports that Apple is close to signing a deal with two major record labels that would pay the labels half the per-song royalties that they receive from Pandora but would also add sweeteners to the deal that would give the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37QV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}