StarBucks Trumps Retailers For New Alanis CD

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HMV pulls Alanis product to protest Starbucks deal

Retail giant HMV has pulled all albums and DVDs by Alanis Morissette from store shelves to protest a deal she signed with Starbucks.

The deal gives the coffee chain the exclusive rights to sell her new album, an acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill, for the first six weeks of its release.

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Canadian music retailer HMV Canada has pulled all of Alanis Morissette's albums from its shelves in protest at her exclusive agreement to sell an acoustic version of her 1995 hit album Jagged Little Pill in North American Starbuck stores for six weeks.

Toronto-based HMV Canada was not available for comment. But rival music retailers have recently voiced concern that they have long sold Ottawa-born Morissette's music and helped make her career. After the six-week period, beginning June 13, the album will go on sale at traditional retailers.

source:Reuters/Hollywood Reporter