MySpace Music streaming 1000 million
For Digital Future | October 6, 2008
ITunes took 3 years to sell one billion songs, but MySpace has provided the same amount of streaming in less than a week.
You can not compare sales of one billion songs at $ 0.99 a streaming (playing) music free, but MySpace Music has achieved unprecedented success in a very short time.
MySpace Music provides free and streaming audio CDs or to purchase ringtones for mobile, and merchandising of music groups ...
MySpace already offers music, but was inserted by each user in your profile, now with these few songs MySpace Music promotional brochures have become complete discography of each group, allowing users to listen to all the songs.
The truth is that MySpace is a risky bet. In the initial studies of economic feasibility, did get that $ 10 per 1000 impressions baners on its website, an assumption that it is impossible to obtain. Sales of merchandise can be high, but each performed Streaming MySpace Music, the company must pay royalties to record labels.
End of this adventure as MySpace is impossible to know, but the truth is that millions of users downloading songs from MySpace with Firefox plugins, and online radio (or radio on demand) seems difficult to maintain a business financially. So far, all the major websites have failed in this attempt, MySpace might be successful, which I hope. Listen to music before buying is a right to my opinion and that he earns money for their work.
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