CHART WATCH: How Apple Changed Music and Steve Jobs Made Rihanna (and the Cast of Glee and Lil Wayne and Taylor Swift, etc.) a Record-Breaking Star
Apple marked the passing of its co-founder and former chief executive Steve Jobs Wednesday, calling him “a visionary and creative genius.” In the coming weeks, much will be said of Jobs and how he revolutionized the way we live. Evidence of his impact can be found in pockets carrying app-filled iPhones, DVD collections sprinkled with Pixar films and of course, the Billboard Hot 100.
Before the launch of the iTunes digital store in 2003, the record industry was facing the unprecedented threat of online piracy. Consumers were freed from forking over $15 for an album with one hit song and a tracklist full of filler by file sharing services such as Napster. Suddenly, an industry that had made record profits in the late ’90s with this model (think Cumbuwumba, Eiffel 65, Natalie Imbrugila, etc.) scrambled to restore revenue by resorting to lawsuits.
Apple provided an alternative when it signed deals with the five major record labels to offer their artists’ music on the iTunes digital store which made Jobs, a man who didn’t even play an instrument, one of the most influential men in popular music history; the “father of digital music” as Billboard called him this week.
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