In iTunes 11, Apple has changed the color of the beamed eighth music notes from black to silver, matching up with the logo’s existing outer border and with the design of the Mac App Store’s logo.

Apple’s classic logo runs from green to blue, rather than red to violet, and the iTunes icon just happens to pick up three colors that only run together in the logo.

Apple has today shared refreshed assets for to help affiliates promote and share music, movies, and TV content that can be found on Apple Music and the iTunes Store.

A 1981 agreement allowed Apple Corps to use the logo for music and performances and Apple Computer for computers and software.

On April 28, 2003, Steve Jobs announced the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs and a few exclusives that not only changed the record industry then, it paved the way to today's streaming.

So Apple decided to release a simple, powerful and free digital music jukebox—a decision that changed music listening and the music industry forever. ITunes wasn’t born at Apple.

Apple Inc.'s online iTunes music store is now the number-two music retailer in the U.S. behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as measured by unit volume, market researcher NPD Group said Tuesday.