# Apple's iTunes agrees to sell Band Aid 20 download

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/03/apple039s-itunes-agrees-sell-band-aid-20-download/
- Published: 2004-12-03T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Apple’s iTunes online music store has agreed to sell Band Aid 20’s new version of‘
Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ after earlier refusing to sell it.
Apple’s earlier
refusal had been based on its policy of selling all tracks for 79p. Bad Aid 20’s
publisher Universal Music had insisted that its tracks be sold for £1.49.

 

 

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Apple has come up with a compromise which it explained yesterday: “Apple is pleased
to offer the Band Aid 20 single on the iTunes Music Store to raise funds for the
plight of hunger and poverty in Africa. Since all songs on iTunes are £0.79, we’ve
decided to sell it for £0.79 and Apple will donate an additional £0.70 for each 
downloaded song to the Band Aid Charitable Trust.”

 

 

As a result, both the new and original versions of the Band Aid song are the two
most popular tracks on iTunes.

 

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