David Emery OnlineiTunes Says Artist Profiles On Ping Invitation Only
5 September 2010
We asked Apple to explain and just heard back from a spokesperson that "artist profiles were launched by invitation, but we'll keep adding more and more." No information was provied on who is handing invites or what criteria they are using. But bands do have another option ...kind of. "Any iTunes user can create a profile on Ping, artist or otherwise," reminds Apple.
As a follow up to my earlier post, it does indeed seem to be the case that you have to go through the existing iTunes Connect system that labels/distributors have with Apple.
Interestingly, the recommended artists section on Ping is now suggesting 31 artists, along with the 6 I’m following already, and it’s going up day by day and adding new pages to the box.
Which suggests to me that as of right now, there are only 37 artists active on Ping.
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