By contrast, Apple's tactic forced the album upon hundreds of millions of people. This meant that only Samsung customers who were interested in Jay Z's new album got to download it. Crucially, customers had to choose to download an app to download the album. In June last year, anyone with a Samsung Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4, or Galaxy Note II was able to get Jay Z's new album for free, days before it went on general release. You cannot actually disassociate it completely from your account.Īngry iTunes users have pointed to Jay Z's deal with Samsung as a positive example of an album being released in partnership with a technology company. The only way to make the U2 album go away is to go to your Mac or PC and hide all of your 'iTunes in the Cloud' purchases, or to use iTunes to manually hide each track from your purchased items list.Įven then, the U2 album will lurk in your account, hidden until you decide you want it.

That means it will still be shown as part of your music library, even if you delete all the tracks. But even if iTunes users hadn't chosen automatic downloads, 'Songs of Innocence' will still be displayed as an 'iTunes in the Cloud' purchase. Users who have opted to download new purchases to their iPhone automatically have found the new U2 album sitting on their phone since Tuesday. Screenshot showing purchased U2 album on iTunes

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