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3 unusual facts about digital download


Digital download

Digital distribution, a method of downloading software or audio-visual media as opposed to buying it at a traditional point of sale

Downloadable content (DLC), downloadable media usually for a video game

Downloading, the processing of copying data to a computer from an external source


A Drink and a Quick Decision

The album was first released as a digital download on 18 June 2007, then released on CD and 12" vinyl 11 September 2007 in the US, and 8 March 2008 in the UK. The US edition of the album comes with the bonus track "Old Man," a Neil Young cover, a music video by Steven Compton for "Old Man" consisting mostly of the band recording the song, and an enhanced video of "By the Time I Get Home There Won't Be Much of a Place for Me.

All Got Our Runnins

Following the critical and commercial success of debut album Original Pirate Material, All Got Our Runnins was released as a digital download only - distributed by iTunes and Napster, among others.

Brighter Than Sunlight

Brighter Than Sunlight is the fourth full-length album from the band, Ellison, released for digital download in 2012.

Depart from Me

On the same day as the music video's release, Palko released the extended play I Never Knew You as a digital download, initially for free, and then through digital stores.

Eggs Are Funny

It was released in Scandinavia on 25 October 2010 and Internationally on 11 January 2011 as a digital download.

First of My Kind

It was released on 21 April 2012 as a Limited Edition Record Store Day Vinyl, then as a digital download the next day, both in the United Kingdom.

IME, New York City

Creator Ron Durbin was asked by local NARAS Vice President, John Marcus (Grammy Awards) to attend and speak at the digital download conference in 1993 and participated in the conference with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock and many more artists savvy with digital age vision.

L'Americano

"L'Americano" is a song performed by five piece band The Gypsy Queens, featuring The Boys from Made in Chelsea, released on December 13, 2012 as a digital download in the United Kingdom on iTunes, peaking to number 53 on the UK Singles Chart.

Little Bad Girl

It was released for digital download from 27 June 2011 by Virgin Records, serving as the second single from Guetta's latest studio album Nothing but the Beat.

Lost Without You

Goodrem re-mixed and recorded the song for the United States and the song was released there on 28 June 2005 (see 2005 in music) as a digital download.

Matt Fishel

The single was released worldwide via digital download on iTunes, Amazon and Google Play on 18 November 2013 as a one-track, non-album single.

Muzika Poludelih

In 2009, the band released their fourth studio album The Beast Is Back, featuring six songs only and available on both compact disc, released by New Age Family records, as well in mp3 format, available for digital download at the official Myspace page.

Radar Detector

It was released as a digital download on 25 April 2010 and also features on the self-titled debut album: "Darwin Deez".

Song for Singapore

The single is the first NDP theme song to be available for free digital download.

That Christmas Feeling

In 2010 Capitol Records Nashville made the album available as a digital download, with the original cover art and two bonus tracks ("The Night Before Christmas" and "Silent Night") taken from the 1969 BFGoodrich compilation album The Christmas Sound of Music.

Up in the Clouds

It was released as a digital download on 11 July 2010 with a vinyl release the following day and also features on the self-titled debut album: Darwin Deez.


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Amanda Leigh

On March 17, 2009, her first single for the record "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day of the Week" was released for digital download on iTunes.

Apollo Sunshine

Their third album, Shall Noise Upon, was released on vinyl and as a digital download on August 5, 2008.

Bien o Mal

The song written by Julieta Venegas with the collaboration of Argentine singer Alejandor Sergi vocalist from Miranda!, the Single was released on digital download on January 10, 2010, quickly hit the top of the Mexican and Latin American radio.

Carpe Diem String Quartet

"Songs Without Words," composed by Bruce Wolosoff for the quartet, was successfully recorded earlier in 2009 and has been made available for digital download on Naxos's website.

Cilvia Demo

As promised, Cilvia Demo was released on January 28, 2014 via digital download retailers and was made available in CD format exclusively from From Top Dawg Entertainment's website.

ClearPlay

The United States Congress passed the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act that explicitly clarified the copyright laws explaining that someone can personalize the playback of movies, skipping or muting content from playback of a DVD or digital download.

Club Can't Handle Me

It was released as a digital download on iTunes on June 28, 2010 as the lead single of the Step Up 3D soundtrack album and is also included on Flo Rida's third studio album, Only One Flo (Part 1).

Cory Lee

On July, 2012 Cory released via digital download an extended play album with both song – "Cruel Intentions & Fashion Show".

DanceX

The group have signed a recording contract with Gut Records and released their first single Dancing In Repeat (written by Oscar Gorres and Swedish popstar Danny Saucedo) as a digital download on 27 August 2007.

Danny! discography

Instead, selected tracks from Danny!'s discography—all previously released on his vanity Badenov Records/1911 Music imprint—have been made available as a free download on Def Jux's revamped website, which boasts an extensive digital download section.

Debbie Deb

Janet Jackson released a cover version of "Lookout Weekend" as a free digital download on her website as a gift to her fans prior to the release of her album 20 Y.O..

Eddie Mooney

In 2010, Mooney reactivated "Eddie Mooney and the Grave" to release the single "Look on the Darkside" as digital download only via iTunes, Amazon.com and Spotify.

Georgina Fleur

Also in January 2013, she released a single titled Je Suis Comme Je Suis (I Am What I Am in French) on Ariola Records (a German subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment), which was only available as digital download and reached #73 on the German iTunes chart.

Jeff Austin

Available only for digital download, the album features non-traditional bluegrass versions of songs by the Grateful Dead with 100% of the proceeds going to the Rex Foundation.

Jim Cliffe

Donovan's Echo was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download in Canada in September 2012 by Anchor Bay Entertainment, and will be coming to the U.S. in May 2013.

Joseph, Better You than Me

The song continues the tradition of The Killers releasing a digital download Christmas single that started with "A Great Big Sled" in 2006 and continued with "Don't Shoot Me Santa" in 2007.

Josephine Collective

The album, We Are the Air, was released for digital download on June 24, 2008.

Judith Durham

In 2007 Durham also made a cameo appearance on English Garden, a bonus track featured only on the digital download version of the new Silverchair album Young Modern.

Late Night Alumni

Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc., the follow-up album to Empty Streets, was released as a digital download on November 3, 2009, with the physical CD released on February 2, 2010 on Ultra Records.

Latex Generation

The Special Editions are only available on digital download services worldwide such as iTunes, Rhapsody, Napster, & more.

Live! Thirty Days Ago

In the United Kingdom and the United States it was only available via digital download after November 30, 2004, and was released on CD January 11, 2005 in the UK and February 22, 2005 in the US (see 2005 in music).

Matthew Murphy

The band's second album, entitled The Wombats Proudly Present: This Modern Glitch was released on 25 April 2011 as a CD, digital download and also as 7" and 12" vinyls.

Mount Kimbie

Blind Night Errand EP was released on 29 November 2010 on 12" vinyl and digital download. The EP included the song "Before I Move Off" of which there is a video by Tyrone Lebon which debuted on Pitchfork Media - the video is a montage of 8000 photographs. The EP also includes an alternate version of "William" remixed by Mount Kimbie themselves, alongside a live recording of "Maybes" taken from a set at the Berghain club in Berlin.

My Last Day Without You

The soundtrack was released for digital download and streaming via Google Play, Amazon.com, iTunes, and Spotify on Nov. 5th 2013.

NapsterLive

Released as a companion to their album Jackinabox, it was a digital download available from the Napster online music service, as well as many other download stores.

Night Ripper

Illegal Art released Night Ripper on May 9, 2006 as a digital download on their website.

Pull Shapes

It is available on CD, double 7" vinyl, and digital download from Memphis Industries. The video for "Pull Shapes" is a reference to a scene from Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in which a character sings "Sweet Talking Candyman".

Radio Free Virgin

By March 2003, Radio Free Virgin servers accommodated 2.8 million unique listeners per month and Virgin was offering an integrated digital download and subscription service that was in direct competition with iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody called Virgin Digital.

Radiohead Box Set

The box set was released in physical form as a limited edition seven CD box set, with each album in original digipak sleeves, as a digital download as DRM-free 320 kbit/s MP3 files with digital artwork and as a 4GB USB Stick.

Real Late Starter

The single was released as a three-track digital download and as well as an exclusive 7" vinyl, only available on Nerina's website in the UK on October 19, 2009. after the release of the album, with a cover of Steely Dan's "Peg" and an acoustic version of "My Last Tango" (from Dear Frustrated Superstar) as the B-sides.

Scalby School

On 5 July 2010 the school released a digital download Somewhere Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World, in an attempt to reach the charts.

Special Edition Digital Download

Special Edition Digital Download is the name of VOTA's second album.

Ten Stories

The largest pre-order bundle on their online store is $40 and includes a 2XLP on colored 150g vinyl, 4th side vinyl etching, custom inner sleeves, a 28-page lyric booklet with 11 original paintings by Vasily Kafanov, 11x17 Poster, 13-song bonus CD with alternate album cover, instant digital download on street date, exclusive b-sides 7" single Other Stories:, an 8-page lyric booklet, two more original paintings by Vasily Kafanov, and foreword by the band’s drummer Rick Mazzotta.

The Artemis Complex

In 2007, Nilaihah Records had the album re-mastered and re-released through its digital download outlets.

The Foxes

On 16 March 2009 the single 'Bill Hicks' (based on famous comedian) was released on CD, vinyl and digital download, which reached number 6 on the official UK Indie charts according to the BBC website.

The Longer U Wait

The Longer U Wait is an album of remixes related to Fol Chen, released on Asthmatic Kitty as a digital download in 2009.

The North Stands for Nothing

Later in the year, the band signed a deal with Good Fight Music to release the mini-album in the United States – initially releasing it on 23 November 2010, as digital download only.

The Planets Bend Between Us

There were two versions of digital download, the first having the re-worked version of "The Planets Bend Between Us", which was available from stores like Amazon and HMV.

The Travel Show

The EP was never released on CD; however, it can be purchased on the Internet as a digital download in MP3 format.

Unconditional: Love Songs

On 29 January 2010, the album's one and only single, I Can't Make You Love Me, was released via Digital Download.

WOW Christmas: Green

It was available on the Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand EP that came packaged with Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do and is also available on the CD Let It Snow, Baby... Let It Reindeer and also available separately on digital download services.

Your Body Sub Atomic

The digital download comes with an Adobe flash liner "booklet" (with a looping ambient track) detailing the title tracks story and the remixers, it also comes with a high quality video of the "Feadz 2007 Mix" in .m4v format.