Sep 17, 2007

Boosting US online digital music sales

As the number of CDs sold gets fewer and fewer, record companies are getting friendlier and friendlier with the idea of selling tracks by their artists online - and even giving them away.

For those living in the US and Canada, Spiralfrog launched on Monday September 17th and promises free downloads. The site is ad-supported and has a deal with the Universal Music Group, promising to pay them $4.4million this November.

Amazon is also apparently launching a music download site sometime soon.

This is all to compete with the iTunes service, which dominates the legal downloads at the moment.

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