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We need your advice on pre-ordering from the iTunes Store. Let's say I wanted to order some album or movie. I press the orange button with the price tag, I see a warning that money can be written off at any time, and what I pay for may appear not on the appointed date, but later. Ok, I agree - that's all. Nothing happens at all! If I go to the album page again, the orange price tag is visible again. I press - a warning appears again. I don’t want to press further, because I feel that money can be written off two or three times.
Why doesn't Apple show that I have pre-ordered an item? Is it possible to somehow manage iTunes pre-orders Store, for example, see their list or cancel unnecessary ones?
Hello!
Agree with you, the pre-ordering system in the iTunes Store is far from perfect. For any other purchased items in the iTunes Store, a download button is displayed instead of the price - this clearly tells you that the purchased content is yours and the money will not be charged for the second time. With pre-orders, the opposite is true. The orange pre-order price tag never changes, which makes it unclear whether your purchase was completed or not. You can start pre-ordering several times. However, we hasten to reassure you: the money will not be debited from you several times, at the time of purchase confirmation you will be notified that the content has already been ordered:
However, pre-ordered albums and movies will not appear in your purchase history until the content appears in the iTunes Store. By the way, money should be written off from you at the same moment, although in practice this rule is not always observed (they can write off both earlier and later).
To see full list pre-orders, you need iTunes. In it, go to the iTunes Store, click on the button for your account in the left upper corner and select "Account". In the lower section of the window, you will see the item "Manage pre-orders":
As you can see, here you can cancel any pre-order, provided that you have not yet been charged money and you have not yet downloaded the pre-ordered content.
If you plan to pre-order new iPhone XS or Apple Watch Series, you better take care of that now. All three iPhone devices The XS, iPhone XS Max, and Apple Watch Series 4 should be available for pre-order in select countries around the world today.
Remember how it was with the iPhone X? It took only 10 minutes after the company Apple started take pre-orders as soon as the limit is over. Those who left the order after half an hour received a month's delivery delay. If you love new gadgets and can't stand watching your friends play with gadgets that you don't already own, read the tips below.
Make sure you can login without delay
Login to your account Apple record Store now. Make sure your details and password are correct and consider saving them in your browser. This will save you a little time when you're ready to pre-order your new iPhone.
If you have previously configured two-factor authentication for his account, you may need to click "Remember you" on the login page Apple Store so you can skip entering the verification code from its associated login device.
Enter your billing information in advance
Why waste minutes to find out information about your credit card? Every second you order a new iPhone is precious. On the account settings page, you can find an option to enter payment and shipping information in advance. Do this for an even smoother checkout process. This way you can get your pre-ordered device in a short time.
If you're using the Apple Store app to pre-order a new device, make sure you've turned on Touch ID or Face ID for purchases. This will help you complete the transaction much faster than entering your Apple ID password. This is especially helpful if you are typing for a long time due to excitement or fatigue.
This setting can be found by clicking on the little face icon in the upper right corner of the app. To go to the account screen, scroll down and tap Settings, then choose Touch ID or Face ID.
Don't forget about the app
Judging by the last year, it was through the Apple Store application that users were able to place an order faster than through the website. If you don't have any Apple devices yet, ask a friend for an iPhone or iPad for the evening.
Customize iPhone options or Apple Watch
Don't waste time looking at the configuration and colors at the time of ordering. The fact is that you can choose options, color, add the iPhone on the website or in the Apple Store app to your favorites. Just look for the heart icon on last page where the company asks if you want to add ppleCare + (or the heart icon in the upper right corner Apple apps Store).
Then, when the pre-order starts, you can click on the bag icon, select "Favorites", find the pre-selected device there and order it ahead of other buyers.
Set up notifications correctly
You can set the alarm for the time you want. As soon as it rings, remember that you have to pre-order within the next 15 minutes.
Start your exploration as early as possible
You can set up a preliminary iPhone search on Twitter and Reddit and keep it updated. It so happens that the opportunity to place an order appears half an hour earlier than officially announced. Of course, many sellers do this by mistake, but it will give you the opportunity to accurately time to place an order.
Ekaterina Pastukhova
Based on materials: www.lifehacker.com.au
Illustration from the site: www.zdnet.com
Even if Apple has made one of best shops for mobile devices, some things remain incomprehensible to logic and common sense. Developers will probably note the opaque interaction with the App Store censors, and users will notice the content pre-ordering system. We will probably leave the development topic alone, but it is worth dwelling in more detail on ordering films and music albums that have not yet been released. At first glance, the procedure is very simple - you press the orange button and after the release of the desired content you get the opportunity to download it. In the middle stage, of course, you can manage pre-orders and cancel them if you want, but overall the system seems very easy even for the most inexperienced user.
Problems can begin at the stage of the appearance of a film or album in the iTunes Store, when the system is ready to write off money from the account in exchange for the desired novelty. At this point, there is a high probability of ending up with a blocked account if the required amount of money does not appear on the account. The iTunes Store support page reads: “If you have a problem debiting your account after a line item appears, you will receive electronic message with notification of the availability of the position ". However, in practice, in case of a failed attempt to write off money from the account App stores Both the Store and the iTunes Store require the user to sort out the problem and update their billing information. Otherwise, you will find yourself without a pre-ordered product, which is logical, but you will also not be able to install updates for applications and games, as well as download free software from the App Store, which is completely wrong.
The meaning of such restrictions is not clear, because if a person cannot pay for some product, this should not become a reason to completely restrict the use of stores. If in in this case the user received a pre-order and a technical debt to the iTunes Store, this behavior of the system was justified. However, in reality, the order is canceled, which should not interfere with further work with the service. Of course, such a situation, when there is not enough money on the account, can be called an exception to the rule. However, some users have additional cards for making payments on the Internet and paying for services, on which in the right moment there may be no money. In this case, you may suddenly need to download some free app or to update the already installed one, but there is no way to replenish the card account. Apple it would be worth revising our policy regarding those situations where a purchase is canceled due to insufficient funds in the account.
Pre-order is open in iTunes for the album of Ukrainian singer Sergei Osipenko
The long-awaited album of Ukrainian singer, composer and musician Sergei Osipenko entitled "FERRARI music" will appear on December 15, and pre-order will be open from December 11, the song "FINGERS" will be available, it is familiar to many, you can find it on YouTube by watching a beautiful clip by SERGEY OSIPENKO -FINGERS. Mikhail Kurgaev worked on the arrangement for this song, there is also the first version of this song "FINGERS MIX", arranged by Andrey Zbandut (the artist has been working with him for a long time), each version is good in its own way. Almost all of the singer's tracks, except for the new ones from the album "FERRARI music", can be found on the artist's website, on the Internet at music portals and on the artist's social media pages. Sergei is a poet, composer, musician and singer, he writes the lyrics himself, but for more than six months he has been collaborating with the poet and producer Valentina Khasanova, the song "FERRARI" written in her words gave the name to the album. As if justifying the name FERRARI, the artist's career quickly went up, Sergey is a long-awaited guest on many radio stations and social events, the song "FINGERS" sounded simultaneously on more than 60 radio stations in Ukraine during the all-Ukrainian premiere of the song. The fast and playful song "BALI" was written to the words of Valentina Khasanova, about the fickle and unpredictable nature of women, causes controversy. The song "MONAKO", style Deep-house - Sergey's author's song, sounded on the radio SHARMANKA and at the singer's performances is accompanied by a storm of emotions and applause. The song "HAPPINESS" is an EDM style, also Sergey's author's song, - positive reviews, the leader in download requests. "MONTE - CARLO" Bolearic House style, Sergei's soft enveloping velvet voice takes you to the land of bliss and luxury, where dreams come true (men find the performance somewhat sugary, and the female population simply melts at the performances of this song). The songs "YOU" and "MY WORLD" are new, they will be only on iTunes, from the recording studio the songs went to the album bypassing fans and critics, so a pleasant surprise awaits those wishing to purchase the album. The song "YOU" was performed in a radio version and will soon sound on the air. Ambiguous talk about the song "ISTANBUL", Sergey and Valentina, having visited Istanbul, wrote the song as they saw the city through the eyes of tourists, oriental lingering motifs are organically intertwined in an incendiary dance rhythm, the words in the song are characteristic of the East, it is also perhaps the brightest song in the album after FERRARI. Well, completing the excursion through the album, one can note the song "LOMTIK MANGO", the original version was performed by the Ukrainian singer Yekaterina Nagornaya, with whom the songs "BETWEEN CITIES AND COUNTRIES" and the song "BEAD NOTES" were recorded, then Sergey performed the song himself and she entered the album in a new version.
You can buy the song "FINGERS" by following the link. https://itunes.apple.com/ru/album/bali/id777699070?i=777699175&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
ANOTHER PLEASANT SURPRISE for the "FERRARI music" ALBUM -
FOR THOSE who make a PRE-ORDER, the price of the album will be 99 rubles, for the rest it will be 139 rubles!
TRACK LIST "FERRARI music":
1. FERRARI
2.BALI
3.MONACO
4.MONTE - CARLO
5.FINGERS
6.ATMOSPHERE
7 ISTANBUL
8.You
9.MY WORLD
10 HAPPINESS
11.MANGO SLICE
Country: Russia
Town: Moscow
Address of the event: the Internet iTunes store
Date and time of the event: 12/15/2013 at 13:00
Ticket price: 139
What artists does A + work with?
We are not fixated on any particular genre. Our catalog also includes Lolita Milyavskaya and Yulia Volkova, now we are working with Mana Island. But most of our catalog is made up of hip-hop artists. We have been working with Mezza, Rigos, Nel for a long time, last year we released albums by Galata, Jubilee, LSP with Pharaoh and Schokk’a, recently we started working on the Big Russian Boss catalog.
How Much Money Can You Make on iTunes
The main store is iTunes. Those albums that fall into the annual iTunes tops- this is more than 10 thousand copies of sales. There are also those who sell for 20-30 thousand. You can calculate the average revenue yourself if you multiply by the release price and subtract the aggregator's commission ( average price album in iTunes - 129 rubles, the average commission of the aggregator + the commission of the store - 40% -50%, it turns out about 650,000 rubles - Approx. The Flow).
A song that has been on the air of major radio stations for at least six months can bring its author and performer several million rubles in iTunes. It is desirable that by the end of the year it was also in the top 20 in terms of rotations in the country: that is, the number of annual rotations on radio in Moscow should reach 10,000 times. This can be monitored using Tophit or Moskva.fm.
The result can be influenced by video content - this is how Big Russian Boss's album sales on iTunes jump after each episode of his show.
How an artist makes a living with iTunes if he's not a rap superstar
No way. Such artists need to feed themselves with concerts. Only on sales digital content they cannot live in highs, alas.
There are artists who don't even get most of their money from iTunes or Apple Music... They make good money streaming their clips. For example, Bahh Tee himself about it tweeted recently- and this is true: I am sure that he can live with dignity from one of his YouTube channels.
Does Streaming Kill iTunes Sales
When Apple Music came along, iTunes sales fell by about 30%. The balance between Apple Music and iTunes is just starting to level out. This quarter, our earnings from Apple Music surpassed iTunes for the first time. This happened, for example, with the last album Jubilee. His listeners are young and well-trained people; they already had subscriptions to Apple Music - it was more profitable and more convenient for them to listen to it there.
And since 2017, the popular Vkontakte service has legalized the tracks - you can download Boom app and listen to the entire audio library on your phone for some little money. Or keep listening to songs in the browser for free, but with audio ads before the song.
This song is from last year's Jubilee release.
How promo is done in iTunes and what it gives
iTunes might give you a top banner, but that's a show-off thing. It is much more interesting to get into the "New Music" section. Not only because your album immediately becomes visible to all buyers, and then enters the iTunes consolidated chart, but also because it is an indicator for all professionals in the music market: media, radio, television, and so on.
There is usual procedure submissions for all publishers looking to get a promo on the iTunes or Apple Music showcase. We send an application to the iTunes editorial office in Russia and explain why the release needs to attract the attention of the audience: what resources will support it? What clips are you planning? How many album pre-orders (most important)? How much money are you planning to spend on promoting the release?
Why is it Apple Music? The service must constantly attract new people. And a good promo plan can explain to them that it is this artist who will give a link in his social networks and attract people to the service who will pay for a subscription.
I remember when the Schokk'a album appeared on Odnoklassniki ahead of time, we had to open a month earlier than planned. And all marketing plans, naturally, went off. But on the very first day we managed to convince the iTunes editors that this is a release that they should not miss. On the same day we made an appointment, talked, and the next day we had full set release promo options.
Is the iTunes summary chart objective and how to wind up views for yourself
Yes, you can sell 100 copies of your track and get there in the first positions of the chart. But the chart is constantly moving, so getting yourself a rating is daily work... It is quite simple to buy 100 copies: you enter the program, enter 100 emails there, click “Buy”, 100 x 20 rubles = 2000 rubles are debited from your card. Not so large sum, especially if you consider that you buy your own music and part of the amount will be returned to you. Half for sure.
I would not say that this is just such a widespread practice: hip-hop artists, for example, do this very rarely. How to check if an artist is winding himself up? You can compare the iTunes and Apple Music charts - it is more difficult to wind up listening there. These charts should be approximately the same: if an artist's song is in the lead on iTunes, but it is not on the Apple Music chart, make your own conclusions.
Song charts iTunes (top) and Apple Music (bottom) at the time of publication of the lyrics - April 18, 2017
What artists are the labels ready to fight for?
Music publishers fight for newcomers - it's commonplace. Take the artist T-Fest, Phlatline (with whom we cooperate) and Gas Holder tried to build relationships with him. We made him an offer, he came to the autograph session of Schokk'a, where there was a huge queue for many hours. After two hours of the session, we realized that our work was over and decided to leave. We leave and see that at some point some of the people stood in line to Schokk and went to get up in the second - to T-Fest. At one point, he had 20 people there. After that, there were no questions that he should be signed.
He went on a mini-tour with Schokk, and ended up subscribing to Gas Holder. I see it this way: T-Fest was interesting to Scryptonite as a creative unit. They have chemistry, like LSP and Pharaoh did a year ago - when two creative people find each other. And the fact that he went to “Gas” is normal: we are still engaged in the monetization of music, not creativity. And on "Gaza" for a young artist, who lit up brightly - an ideal creative environment. Unfortunately, we cannot offer such an artist.
T-Fest rookie music video. In two months - one million views
Another example is the Husky. I started writing to him even after the clip “Black-Black”, we talked, but then there was a pause. After the release of Bullet-Fool, we met again, this time with Dima and his manager, and discussed the contract. After the meeting, we went down to the subway together, where a policeman approached us: “Good afternoon, young people, I am a sergeant such and such. You are a Husky, right? " It turned out that this young cop was an aspiring rap artist who wanted Husky to listen to his demo.
At some point, Gazgolder joined the negotiations with Husky, offered a lot of money, then another digital aggregator. In the end, Husky called me and said that he wants to work with us, but intends to seriously increase the fee. At that time, I convinced my partners that it was new star, explosion, but I understood that we would not come to an agreement with him: the numbers were too unrealistic. As a result, another company released his album - and he streams very well: in Apple Music for the third week in fourth place.
Who can be given millions of advances
The artist receives an advance payment from the publisher even before the release of the album. If I were an artist, I would never chase the amount of the advance. It pays off for a very long time - and all this time you do not receive royalties, anywhere. Because the publisher must return the money spent. If I were an artist, I would take a minimal advance and knock myself out Better conditions on royalties (deductions from sales - approx. The Flow).
There is another problem: you knocked out a very large, unrealistically huge advance from the label - and your album flopped. The second time, no one will give you so much money, and all the professionals on the market will see the situation. More are you on favorable terms You can't sign a contract with anyone.
The opposite situation also works: if an artist earns himself at the start, shoots a video, promotes it in social networks - in short, does not sit still - in six months the label is ready to give him a bigger advance out of the blue. For example, to do good mastering in America: it is expensive - in our practice, from $ 280 per track. Or if we see that an album or a single is selling well, we are ready to invest in a video. Let's say pay half the cost of his filming.
The largest advance that we paid was one and a half million rubles. Unfortunately, I cannot name the artist, we signed a nondisclosure agreement with him. I read in your place that ATL offered a million rubles per album. We would be willing to pay two million for the entire catalog. Seriously, can you suggest it directly from the pages of The Flow?
For this amount, the artist gives us an exclusive license for his entire music catalog. For the period that we will discuss. An exclusive license is the exclusive right to monetize all available creative rights. At the same time, the artist himself temporarily loses the right to monetize these rights. But for the entire term of the contract, he receives regular detailed reports on sales. And their deductions, of course.
How would we recapture this money? There are secrets. For example, just by correctly filling out the position of its catalog on the showcase, you can earn 20% more.
Why does an artist generally pay a percentage to a publisher?
Some artists do not understand why we are asking for our conditional 30% of all money we earn. "Why would I give a part of my money to someone for the fact that they just put my album in stores." And here it is important to explain that our work from the moment the content is placed on sale does not just not end, but only begins.
This is the development of a promotional plan, its implementation (including all kinds of crops and publications, paid and free), communication with the radio for rotations of a particular song, placing clips on TV broadcasts, work on synchronizing music into various TV shows, series and movies, advertising.
We also make sure that the rights of our artists are not violated by pirates or other artists. Recently JEM Publishing deliberately used a verse from an old Jubilee song in a new song by their artist Zamai, and then posted this new song everywhere and began to sell. They didn't have permission from Jubilee, of course. After an attempt to peacefully resolve the issue and refusal on their part,