Apple has announced iTunes will cut the prices of some songs and remove copy protection (which prevents songs from being copied or moved to different devices) from all of its music. For an extra 30 cents, users can remove copy protection from each of their previously purchased songs.

Apple announced it has sold over 5 billion songs on iTunes. Earlier this year, the online retailer overtook Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the U.S.

iTunes has surpassed Wal-Mart as the number one music retailer in the U.S.

MySpace is teaming up with Universal Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music Group to launch a new version of MySpace Music that will sell downloadable, DRM-free MP3s like iTunes and Amazon MP3.

Starbucks will give away 50 million free iTunes songs to promote their new partnership with Apple. And earn great publicity. Like this.

iConcertcal is an iTunes plug-in that personalizes a concert calendar based on your playlist. (via Metafilter)

Build "better" iTunes playlists with beaTunes.

Apple launches iTunes Latino.