Was Jonas Sandwall the first artist to launch an app album for iOS?

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Last week, musician Björk released what she claimed was the world's first app album for iOS. Though this is her first app album, it may not be the first to hit the app store. EMI launched Swedish House Mafia's "Until One" album as an iPad app back in March 2011. This pre-dates Björk, but even "Until One" may not be the first album app.

An email from Jonas Sandwall suggests we need to look back even farther to find the first app album for iOS. The independent Swedish artist claims his app album was the first to hit the market back in November 2010. The app is available for free from the Swedish app store and includes three free songs. Extra content such as lyrics, chord sheet music and artwork are available as an in-app purchase for about US$2.00

By launching last November, Sandwell did get a jump on his bigger competitors like EMI, but is he actually the first? Does anyone know of an app album that launched before November?

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Jonas Sandwalls album was released in sept 2010. 11/9/2010 according to AppStore.

48 minutes ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Clear Notice Records

Enter Calico was released on the App Store on 4th November 2010 by Clear Notice Recordings. It was also a featured app in the music section of the UK store.

http://clearnotice.com/news/2010/11/4/enter-calico-ipad-app-and-premiere.html

3 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Ian

The Björk app album is just that... an album constructed of apps. The ones you link to are just music plus an RSS feed or lyrics. Biophilia consists of ten or so individual apps (developed by different software houses) bound together by a parent app - each app representing a track and featuring some shared functionality (score view, animation view, dissertation) plus a unique element which can be a game, or an instrument. It was all covered in a Wired article here: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/08/features/music-nature-science:

I don't think any of the examples you have given have come close to being the same as this project, but then again it depends on how you define an "app album". Is it, like Björk, a musical album where each track is represented by a unique app in a framework, or just an app that plays music with an RSS feed to someone's website.

4 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Mike

Define "app album"?
I released my label's discography as an app in february 2010..
http://itunes.apple.com/app/redvolume-records/id354127065?mt=8

5 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply mguniverse

The Bjork app is just... odd..

11 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply 1 reply to mguniverse's comment VanillaSpice

Good, because Bjork is just ... odd (in a good way) and if the app wasn't odd then it wouldn't be a proper Bjork release.

8 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Apostolis Tsolakidis

What about LiNkin Park's 8-Bit, does that count?

14 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Ian

Paradise Ahead of Russian Mumiy Troll appeared in March 2010, so this is way before November

15 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply jcgarzamtz

Didn't Death Cab for Cutie release an app that had songs from their album "Narrow Stairs" in it... in 2008? I remember I had it, but deleted it a while ago...

15 hours ago Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply Ken Pespisa

I guess it depends on your definition of an App Album, but in July 2009 I released "Relax with Tranzotica", which features the music from Pamela Davis' ambient music album, Tranzotica: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/relax-with-tranzotica/id321355446?mt=8. (iTunes album link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-tranzotica/id320837371)

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