Sure, if you count pirating. But Jobs convinced the moguls of the music world to do it legally and invented the infrastructure to collect the money and distribute the songs.
Stop linking to unresearched liberal press articles.
The original MP3.com sold singles as well as albums, primarily from indie artists and overseas acts seeking a broader audience way back in the late nineties.
The RIAA was terrified and spent far more money trying to shut them down than they did trying to get Napster shut down.
You might visit the judge’s statement slapping the RIAA down in the MP3.com case. Bottom line is that there was no Apple music store online in the nineties, but you could buy individual songs from artists that were real innovators.
You might correctly say that Apple (while nearly a decade late to the party) was able to get the legacy music publishers to release a lot of old acts into the mix, but in no way is that even close to being a pioneer.
Pretty much the same story as their late forays into the digital music player and phone markets. What Apple brought to the party was hype, and legions of fans. They left out features common in their competitors offerings to achieve stability and miniaturization, then claimed to have invented an already maturing product category.