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eMusic to get Sony Music songs

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Jun 1st 2009 No Comments

eMusic announced today that they will be offering up songs from Sony Music, with one important stipulation attached. The songs have to be more than two years old in order to be added to the online music store.

So, what does this mean for subscribers? You’ll find that your monthly fees increase a bit and that the number of downloads you can make a month is reduced. By Q3, several classic songs will be added to the store from the likes of Johnny Cash and Billy Joel.

Currently, the basic plan is $12/month which allots you 24 downloads. What makes this interesting is that most music labels are against this format because the songs are in MP3 format and not protected in anyway. However, we’ll just have to wait and see how this plays out and whether or not it’s a successful plan.

eMusic sold over 250 million songs

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Nov 20th 2008 No Comments

ipod emusiceMusic has been around since 2003 and they have just surpassed the 250 million downloads mark today, showing that there are other music providers out there besides iTunes that have made a significant impact.

eMusic is an online subscription-based music store. It offers up MP3s that are unprotected and will work with both Apple and Microsoft players. The difference from other services here is that they use a subscription model. This means you are guaranteed a given number of songs per month at a particular rate. This actually works out to be cheaper than the $.99/song over at iTunes.

Independent labels are represented more than major ones and their catalog is small with just 4.5 million song offerings. Good for eMusic for hitting this milestone!