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  <updated>2008-12-03T22:15:03Z</updated>
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    <published>2007-09-25T20:47:49Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-16T23:08:05Z</updated>
    <title>Apple Helps Amazon Sell MP3s on Day One</title>
    <summary>The biggest news of the day so far has been Amazon&apos;s launch of their DRM-free MP3 store, which competes with Apple&apos;s iTunes. I find it kind of amusing, however, that Apple is actually driving some sales for Amazon on its first day in the DRM-free MP3 biz. As the graphic to the right shows, the...</summary>
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      <name>Josh Catone</name>
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      <![CDATA[<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/amazon-toptunes.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="341" height="202" />The biggest news of the day so far has been <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_mp3.php">Amazon's launch of their DRM-free MP3 store</a>, which competes with Apple's iTunes.  I find it kind of amusing, however, that Apple is actually driving some sales for Amazon on its first day in the DRM-free MP3 biz.</p>

<p>As the graphic to the right shows, the #1 and #10 song for sale at Amazon today is '1 2 3 4' by Feist.  Why does this relatively obscure <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Feist">Canadian indie rock singer</a> have two of the top ten best selling tracks on Amazon?  Presumably because her single was recently featured in the new Apple iPod Nano commercials, which actually propelled her onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time (#61 on September 20th).</p>

<p>See <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_mp3.php">our coverage</a> of AmazonMP3 by Marshall Kirkpatrick, and also <a href="http://www.last100.com/2007/09/25/amazons-drm-free-music-store-launches/">check out the coverage</a> at our network blog <a href="http://www.last100.com/">last100</a>. <font style="float: right"><script type="text/javascript">
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<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script></font>Check out the iPod Nano commercial below:</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from Scot Colford on 2007-09-25</title>
    <author>
        <name>Scot Colford</name>
        <uri>http://justgiblets.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>"Relatively obscure?" Hmm. Before the iPod commercials, the 1,2,3,4 video was a top viral video. WTF?</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-09-26T00:36:21Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Bob on 2007-09-25</title>
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        <name>Bob</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Maybe there a large audience that do not like iTunes like myself.</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-09-26T01:35:56Z</published>
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