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Linking to Your Album in the iTunes Store
As I was browsing today, I noticed that Dave Carroll (star of the very popular United Breaks Guitars video) didn’t have a link to his iTunes album anywhere on his website. Given that the other banners on his homepage are linked, I thought either he didn’t realize it wasn’t linked, or didn’t know how to grab the album link from iTunes. This is something a LOT of people ask me how to do (because it isn’t terribly obvious), so I thought I’d post instructions here and use his album, Perfect Blue, as an example. I hope there isn’t a specific reason he didn’t want it linked! (Dave, if there is, just let me know!)
1) Go into the iTunes Store
2) Click Power Search on the right side of the page and Search
3) Choose the desired result from the choices it gives you
4) Right click on the album art (the large picture at the top left) and choose “Copy iTunes Store URL”
You’ll get a long link that looks like this: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=281003046&s=143441
Without that link, Dave and other artists are probably losing sales.
That’s it! This will work for anything in iTunes, from music to videos to podcasts to apps. Now go promote yourself! 
