Talks between Apple and the Band Aid charity about the latest single being made available to iPod owners have reached an amicable conclusion.

Resultantly, UK iPod users can now download the song from the iTunes music store.

A spokesperson for Apple said: “Apple is pleased to offer the Band Aid 20 single on the iTunes Music Store to raise funds for the plight of hunger and poverty in Africa.

“Since all songs on iTunes are 79 pence, we’ve decided to sell it for 79 pence and Apple will donate an additional 70 pence for each downloaded song to the Band Aid Charitable Trust.”

There had previously been ongoing price disputes between the two organisations which at one stage looked likely to prevent the single from being made available at all.

Reports suggest that origianlly a pricetag of £1.49 was put on the downloading of the single which sold more than 72,000 copies on its first day of release on Monday, according to sales figures.