iTunes releases Best of 2014 for Canada highlighting the most popular downloads and apps

Today iTunes released  iTunes Best Of 2014 for Canada, highlighting the favourite music, movies, tv, apps, and books of Canadians. 

Pharrell Williams topped the songs chart with his hit Happy from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, while Taylor Swift is #1 on the Albums chart, with her single Shake it Off being the 7th most downloaded song of the year. 

Frozen dominated iTunes downloads in 2014. Among the most downloaded games was Monument Valley and Pixelmator for iOS. Hit jump to read the rest.

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Band Aid re-records "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise Ebola awareness

Hoping to replicate the awaraness raised 30 years ago for Ethiopia, Band Aid led by Sir Bob Geldorf has re-recorded the iconic "Do They Know It's Christmas?" song and made it available on iTunes. The single is now available on iTunes around the world, at  itunes.com/BandAid30 

Proceeds from the star-studded charity single will help to support West African nations in their fight against the Ebola virus and  iTunes will be donating 100% of proceeds to the charity Band Aid Trust.  

For more information, please visit: Band Aid 30 or Twitter #BandAid30 and iTunes Music. Hit jump for the lineup of participating acts.

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U2 free album download on iTunes ends Oct. 14

If you still haven’t gotten to downloading the free U2 album on iTunes, you have a few more days to do so. The free offer of Songs of Innocence will end on October 14. After that, the physical album will be sold with an additional 10 tracks not part of the free release.

Apple and U2 got a lot of flak for how they released the album but that didn’t stop 26 million downloads of the album since its release on September 9.

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U2's iTunes giveaway 'Songs of Innocence' breaks records, revives back catalog

As part of the announcement bonanaza that was last week's Apple Event which gave us two iPhone 6's, Apple Pay and the Apple Watch, Apple also gave every iTunes subscriber instant access to U2's new album 'Songs of Innocence,'. This free download broke some records to the tune of 2 million downloads which grants the album 'double-platinum' status, a big deal in term of distribution. A nice halo effect of this freebie is that it reanimated U2's back-catalog and so people have been rediscovering their classic songs as well. 

How significant is this halo effect, Re/Code has noted that 'In addition to the strong download performance for Songs of Innocence, some 17 of the group's 27 previous albums have made their way into the iTunes top 100 chart. That's something that would never happen in real world record sales and charts, but hey, good for Bono and the lads. Have you downloaded U2's latest album or did it automagically appear on your iTunes library? What do you think of the new album? Let us know below.