When Apple launched their iTunes Plus DRM-free music service back in May, it paved the road for such adoption by the record labels. Since then, many other music services have been jumping on the bandwagon, but had a certain advantage. While Apple was charging $1.29 per DRM-free track, most other music services were charging only $0.99, the same price of DRM-infected tracks on iTunes. Well it seems that Apple has no desire to become the second most popular music store, and have effectively changed the price of all available DRM-free tracks to $0.99. But hey, if you happen to like DRM, then those tracks will still be available as well, for the same price.
In addition to more DRM-free music, Apple will also lower the price of iTunes Plus tracks from $1.29 to $0.99 (this includes the recently released George Harrison solo catalog). Remaining DRM’d selections will continue to be priced at $0.99.
Source: Mashable