World’s Number 1 Music Store Kicks Off with All Major Labels & Thousands of Indies
SAO PAULO, Brazil-December 13, 2011-Apple® today announced the launch of the iTunes Store® in Brazil (www.itunes.com/brazil) with a tremendous choice of Brazilian and international music from all of the major labels and thousands of independent labels. Launching with a catalog of over 20 million songs, the iTunes Store in Brazil features local artists including Ivete Sangalo, Marisa Monte and the digital debut of Roberto Carlos’ catalog, available to buy and download in conjunction with a variety of international artists including the Beatles, Rihanna, Coldplay and thousands more. With most songs priced at 99 cents and most albums at $9.99, the iTunes Store in Brazil is one of the best ways for iPad®, iPhone®, iPod®, Mac® and PC users to legally discover, purchase and download music online.
The iTunes Store in Brazil offers over 1000 movies to hire or purchase, with many in stunning HD, from major studios including 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, The Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures. The iTunes Store in Brazil now joins the revolutionary App Store™, which offers greater than 500,000 apps to consumers in 123 countries, reaching hundreds of millions of iPad, iPhone and iPod touch® users all over the world. Customers have downloaded greater than 18 billion apps thus far.
Apple is likewise bringing the iTunes Store to fifteen additional Latin American countries including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
The iTunes Store in Brazil and Latin America offer music from major labels EMI Music, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music, and thousands of independent labels. All music on iTunes® is available in iTunes Plus®, Apple’s DRM-free format with high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the unique recordings.
iTunes within the Cloud means that you can download your previously purchased iTunes music to all of your iOS devices at no additional cost, and new music purchases could be downloaded automatically to all of your devices. As well, music not purchased from iTunes can gain the similar benefits due to iTunes Matchâ , a brand new service that upgrades your music to iTunes Plus when matched to the over 20 million songs inside the iTunes Store catalog. iTunes within the Cloud is out there today at no cost in Brazil and Latin America and iTunes Match is out there today for a $24.99 annual fee in Brazil.
Pricing & Availability
iTunes 10.5.1 for Mac and Windows includes the iTunes Store and is out there as a free download from (www.itunes.com/brazil). iTunes Store purchases require a sound bank card with a billing address in country.
Apple designs Macs, one of the best personal computers on the planet, at the side of OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the cellular phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 that is defining the way forward for mobile media and computing devices.
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