Jukebox - BusinessWeek http://www.businessweek.com/technology/jukebox/ en Copyright 2009 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:20:56 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss eMusic eMusicLabels: Independent labels

Pricing: The service lets users download a certain number of songs per month

EMusic is, in many ways, an indie iTunes or a music discovery service for users who want to own their songs.

Listen: www.emusic.com

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Pricing: Users can listen to streaming MP3s, videos, and 30-second song samples for free on the ad-supported, music social network

MOG is part music discovery service and part social network where users discuss favorite bands, listen to clips and tracks, and watch music videos.

Listen: www.mog.com

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Pricing: Free, ad-supported music downloads and streams

RCRD LBL turns the traditional idea of recording labels on its head by selling advertising around music and giving away the music for free.

Listen: www.rcrdlbl.com

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Pricing: Lets users put music videos and songs in their photo slide shows

RockYou! started off as a photo-sharing, slide show site. Now it lets users add music and music videos to slide shows that can be appended to social network pages.

Listen: www.rockyou.com

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Pricing: Streams music; uploads music from users' computers and lets them hear it wherever they go

LaLa.com began as a site where music fans could trade CDs, for a fee. Now it lets users hear streaming music for free in hopes that they will buy the songs they like, letting LaLa share a slice of the revenue with music labels.

Listen: www.lala.com

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Pricing: /Ad-supported music streams

Imeem offers ad-supported streaming music for users, sharing a slice of the advertising revenue with record labels.

Listen: www.imeem.com

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Pricing: Ad-supported song and music video streams; à la carte downloads

MySpace's new joint music venture with Sony BMG and Warner is designed to let social networking users buy music and discover new bands for free.

Listen: www.music.myspace.com

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Pricing: All-you-can-eat subscriptions starting at $12.99 a month; à la carte downloads

Rhapsody is the largest subscription music service. Its challenge is convincing music audiences that access to the full array of music is as good as owning smaller chunks of it.

Listen: www.real.com/rhapsody

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Pricing: Sells entertainment advertising; generates revenue from driving traffic to Ticketmaster for concert ticket purchases, and Apple's iTunes for songs

Social networking users install the iLike widget to share favorite bands with friends, receive concert alerts, and discover new music.

Listen: www.ilike.com

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Pricing: Songs appear in ad-supported slide shows; music videos can be shared on the site's FunWall application

Slide initially began licensing music from record labels so users could embed songs in their photo slide shows. More recently it has begun using its applications as a promotional vehicle for artists and music videos.

Listen: www.slide.com

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Pricing: À la carte 99¢ downloads; albums at varying prices

Since the iTunes store launched on Apr. 28, 2003, it has grown to become the second-largest seller of music in the U.S., after Wal-Mart. It controls more than 80% of the legal U.S. download market.

Listen: www.itunes.com

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Pricing: À la carte 89¢ to 99¢ downloads; albums at varying prices

In January, Amazon MP3 became the online music store to offer tracks from all four music labels shorn of copyright protection software that limits where and how often the songs can be played.

Listen: www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download

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