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Apple adds Chinese tunes to iTunes Music Store
If you're a fan of international music, you'll appreciate Apple's latest move. Apple has added a collection of Chinese music to the iTunes Music Store. The Chinese tunes include "Mouse Loves Rice," apparently one of the most popular songs in China; "Song of Pigs," complete with a repeating image of a potbelly pet pig; "This Year's Firework Wasn't Good;" "Your Mum is My Mother in Law;" and other Chinese hits from traditional songs to hip-hop and rap. Apple got martial arts guru Jackie Chan to compile a celebrity playlist of songs from the Chinese collection.I'd love to see Apple continue to expand its World music genre. Any suggestions from our readers for more international music?
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AK said 12:53PM on 10-26-2005
More Japanese Taiko and they could also make a mint with Bollywood songs.
http://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+taiko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood
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rishabh said 1:01PM on 10-26-2005
Its funny that you mentioned that AK, because they do have a lot of bollywood music, not necessarily the latest, but they have a lot of old stuff. It 'd be awesome to have the latest hits and remixes as well.
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Will said 1:21PM on 10-26-2005
I was both relieved and chagrined to see that those are actually tracks in the store (albeit translations).
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Will said 1:31PM on 10-26-2005
BTW, it's mouse loves rice in chinese, not mouse with rice.
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Peter Koritschan said 1:32PM on 10-26-2005
I would love to see more brasilian tunes, as well as more czech music.
Italian and german tunes wouldn't be bad either.
What iTunes lacks very much in my view is some good French Hip Hop.
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Mike Young said 1:44PM on 10-26-2005
I've been submitting requests to Apple for several years for some of the Phillips label albums of the 1960s and 70s. My particular favorite is Missa Luba but a Congolese boys choir. Simply amazing blend of voice and traditional Congolese instruments. Alas, my old vinyl record has long since vanished.
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John said 2:14PM on 10-26-2005
Kpop. Lots of Kpop.
I wonder if they could make all the Koreans drop their iRivers like stones if they offered Korean dramas on iTMS...
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ms said 2:22PM on 10-26-2005
I'd just like to be able to download exclusive tracks from another country's iTMS. What's wrong with that? Providing companies money from areas where they don't have distribution deals -- sounds like a win-win scenario, right? So why can't it be done?
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Extensor said 3:38PM on 10-26-2005
I would love to see the japanese band Pillows on iTunes. Their music is used throughout the Fooley Cooley (FLCL) anime mini series. They are just awesome.
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codeman38 said 10:24PM on 10-26-2005
Yes! More Japanese pop/rock would be great to have in the American music store, if licensing the tunes was at all possible.
For that matter, I'd like to see some anime and video game soundtracks in the store. I see there's already some effort in that direction, as the Final Fantasy soundtracks are in the store...
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Anu Skinner said 11:49AM on 10-27-2005
I'd love to see a selection of Japanese honkyoku (the traditional music of the bamboo flute, the shakuhachi).
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