Pokemon music disappearing from iTunes store?

[Yoshi1001]

I've noticed an odd trend lately-Pokemon music disappearing from the iTunes store. At first, it was just "Catch Me If You Can", which I thought might just mean the contract with Angela Via ended. However, now the score from the second movie has disappeared as well. What's really weird is that if you search albums they still show up, but if you try to open the you get the message "Your request could not be completed. The item you've requested is not available." Any ideas?

 

[Dogasu]

Maybe the contracts are running out?

We really have no ideas what kind of deals Apple's made to get Pokemon music up on their stores. I doubt any of this music is selling too well, so Apple probably wouldn't have any reason to renew any contracts, either.

 

[Yoshi1001]

Maybe the contracts are running out?

We really have no ideas what kind of deals Apple's made to get Pokemon music up on their stores. I doubt any of this music is selling too well, so Apple probably wouldn't have any reason to renew any contracts, either.

If it were purely a matter of contracts, I would think that Pokemon 3 would be the first to go, since it was on the store first in July/August 2004. Also, several other albums were placed in the store at the same time (September 2004) as the 2000 score, and they're still up there.

 

[Dogasu]

Like I said, we really don't know what kind of deals Apple's set up. We can't assume that all the contracts are the same length or that they'll all expire at the same time.

 

[Yoshi1001]

Someone at another forum has posted another possibility:

http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ed_music_simply_disappearing_from_itunes.html

 

[Dogasu]

I'm not seeing anything on that page...

 

[Yoshi1001]

For some reason, there's an extra space being entered in the URL by vBulletin. Try this:

http://tinyurl.com/co494k