Morissette rattles HMV with Starbucks agreement
A Canadian music retailer has refused to stock Alanis Morissette's records in protest at an exclusivity agreement with the coffee giant Starbucks.
The singer has given the coffee chain exclusive rights to sell her new album in the US and Canada for the first six weeks of release. In response, HMV Canada has removed all of her records from its stores.
The album - an acoustic version of her 1995 hit 'Jagged Little Pill' - was released in North America on Monday.
The Canadian-born singer said she had not intended to offend retailers in her home country but she defended her decision to give the coffee chain exclusive rights to sell her album.
Starbucks has played an influential role in US music sales in recent times.
It was responsible for a quarter of all sales of the late Ray Charles final album 'Genius Loves Company', which sold three million copies across the US.
