‘American Idol’ teams up with iTunes
Now you won’t have to wait until the end of the season to get recorded songs from your favorite American Idol finalists.
Starting this week, Idol is teaming up with iTunes to offer downloads of all performances for 99 cents each. That means the best — and even the worst — performances from this moment on will be available for you to own and play again and again. In other words, should a stellar rendition of Heart’s Alone (remember Carrie Underwood’s show-stopping performance in Season 4?) be presented early in the season, you won’t have to wait for the “greatest hits” compilation at season’s end.
Having so many Idol performances available from the beginning also means you can create you own little Danny Noriega or Joanne Borgella CD, even if those finalists don’t make it to the end of the competition. That’s pretty exciting, right?
Once the show is narrowed down to the Top 12, you also will be able to purchase video performances for $1.99 on iTunes. In addition, you also will be able to pre-order tracks from a specific finalist for automatic download. This means the iTunes Top 100 really could be overrun by Idol finalists. Not that it’s a bad thing.



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