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Bob Dylan has signed an exclusive CD deal with Starbucks Corp. allowing the coffee retailers to sell a new live album 18 months before it goes on general sale.
The album, Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962, will hit the 4,6000 American Starbucks stores on August 30 at $13.95, featuring ten previously unreleased tracks, according to CNN Money.
The company's most successful music venture to date has been the release of Grammy Award-winning Ray Charles CD Genius Love Company. Since its release last autumn, the retailer has sold more than 775,000 units, representing 26% of total American sales.
It was reported earlier this month that HMV had pulled Alanis Morissette's albums from their shelves in retaliation to a similar deal with Starbucks over an acoustic re-recording of her Jagged Little Pill album.
The album, Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962, will hit the 4,6000 American Starbucks stores on August 30 at $13.95, featuring ten previously unreleased tracks, according to CNN Money.
The company's most successful music venture to date has been the release of Grammy Award-winning Ray Charles CD Genius Love Company. Since its release last autumn, the retailer has sold more than 775,000 units, representing 26% of total American sales.
It was reported earlier this month that HMV had pulled Alanis Morissette's albums from their shelves in retaliation to a similar deal with Starbucks over an acoustic re-recording of her Jagged Little Pill album.
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