Starbucks forms Hear Music record label
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Starbucks Corp. said on Monday it has formed its own record label that will develop music offerings to be sold both in the chain's coffee shops and through traditional music retailers.
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Joni Mitchell, who had been largely  retired from the music business since 2002, has joined Paul  McCartney on the roster of Starbucks Entertainment&#39;s Hear Music  label. Mitchell&#39;s new album, &quot;Shine,&quot; will be released  September 25 through the coffee retailer&#39;s stores as well as  traditional outlets.
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Starbucks Corp.  -- home of  the &#36;4 cup of coffee and white chocolate mocha frappuccinos --  is on a mission to boost sales of glittery snow globes and  other noncoffee items.
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XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Starbucks Corp. have ended a marketing pact that included music promotions in the coffee chain's stores and CD's sold with both companies' logos.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Joni Mitchell, who had been largely retired from the music business since 2002, has joined Paul McCartney on the roster of Starbucks Entertainment's Hear Music label. Mitchell's new album, "Shine," will be released September 25 through the coffee retailer's stores as well as traditional outlets.
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In a deal with Apple, the coffee shops will give credit for a free 'Song of the Day' download.
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Company hopes the $160 million purchase will make it a major player in the music market.
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Starbucks Corp  said on Monday  it will give away millions of songs via downloads starting next  month as it launches a wireless music service with Apple Inc  .
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Starbucks plans to give away digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service thatâs about to debut in select markets.
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Just when you thought Starbucks could go anywhere -- think again.
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Thanks to an exclusive partnership between Apple and Starbucks, you can soon take a seat in a participating location andâusing an iPod touch, iPhone, or Mac or PC running iTunesâwirelessly browse, search for, preview, purchase, and download music from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks. No connection fee or login requiredâyour computer, iPod touch or iPhone will automatically recognize the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store as soon as you enter a participating location. The new âNow Playingâ service will even display the name of the song currently playing at the Starbucks youâre in. The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store at Starbucks makes its debut at 600 Starbucks-operated locations in New York and Seattle on October 2.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In an interview published recently in Pitchfork, Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore mentioned that the band needed to record a new song for a Starbucks compilation. Within minutes of his remarks hitting the Internet, chat rooms and the band's fan sites were awash in cries of "foul" and "sellouts."
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CD-burning stations located inside Starbucks Corp. stores finally made their debut in Seattle Monday after six months of design and other delays.
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Starbucks Corp. is teaming up with AT&T Inc. and will start offering a mix of free and paid wireless Internet service in more than 7,000 of its U.S. coffee shops beginning this spring.
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Starbucks Corp. on Wednesday said customers will be able to make custom music CDs at 45 of its U.S. coffee shops by later this month, the first step in a plan to expand the service nationwide.
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The streaming site offers free tunes from major and indie labels.
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Starbucks is opening a series of &quot;music bars,&quot; where customers can listen to digital recordings and burn their own CDs. The &quot;Hear Music&quot; coffeehouses will open in 15 Starbucks stores in Seattle starting Monday.