Apple's recently introduced tiered pricing has had an immediate impact on sales through the iTunes music store. Until recently, all music through iTunes was solid for 99¢ but the major labels pressured Apple to allow price increases to $1.29 and also promised decreases of "some" catalogue songs to 69¢.

Billboard examined the results and found that $1.29 songs lost an average of 5.3 places on the chart while the $0.99 songs gained an average of 2.5 chart positions. For a price increase (to $1.29 from $0.99) to result in an equal or greater amount of revenue, unit sales would to drop by no less than 23.3%.

Even more noticeable is the rarity of 69¢ songs promised by the labels. Gizmodo found one, a Limp Bizkit/Bubba Sparx collaboration, remixed by Timbaland.