Virgin launches US music downloads
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BRITISH tycoon Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group is jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for US99c ($1.
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Microsoft&#39;s has launched its MSN music download service in eight more European countries as the software giant bids to takes on Apple&#39;s market leading iTunes.
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Apple today launched iTunes Plus. The new option for iTunes customers features DRM-free music tracks that offer â for just $1.29 per song â high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality indistinguishable from the original recordings. iTunes Plus debuts with singles and albums from EMIâs digital catalog of outstanding recordings from artists such as Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, and Paul McCartney, a dozen of whose classic albums are now available on iTunes for the first time.
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Virgin becomes the first major music retailer to enter an increasingly crowded online music market.
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The iTunes Music Store now offers more than 1 million songs to US customers, cementing its position as the largest online music service. Apple announced the milestone Tuesday, claiming it holds over 70 percent market share for legal music downloads. iTunes features songs from the five major record labels, along with 600 independent labels, and is available in the US, UK, France and Germany.
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Gearing up to compete with MS' Zune too IFA 06 Samsung is to take the digital music fight to Apple by launching its own song download service in the UK, France and Germany, the South Korean giant revealed today. Details of the service remain scarce, but we can say it will be operated by digital music distributor MusicNet, which also powers Virgin Digital, HMV, Yahoo!, iMesh and others.â¦
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Virgin becomes one of the first major music retailers to enter an increasingly crowded online music market.
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A new music service that allows  consumers to directly download an unlimited number of tracks to  their mobile phones for a small weekly fee from wherever they  are will launch in Europe on Thursday.
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Microsoft Corp. is offering a &quot;preview release&quot; of MSN Music, its answer to Apple&#39;s popular iTunes Music Store. The music download service is available in the United States exclusively for users of the Windows
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Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Digital went live today offering some 1,000,000 tracks - This being 250,000 more than iTunes. In March Branson said he will be adding digital music to his Virgin brand at the time
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Canadians are finally getting a taste of Apple&#39;s iTunes. The legal music download service finally launched in Canada yesterday, bringing with it over 700,000 songs, exclusive tracks, celebrity playlists and multiple CD burning rights.
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Virgin Group Ltd., owned by billionaire British entrepreneur Richard Branson, said it will begin selling a portable music player to compete with Apple Computer Inc.
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Apple 1, Branson 0 Virgin has closed Virgin Digital, its Windows Media-based alternative to Apple's iTunes. It stopped selling one-off downloads on Friday, though subscribers will still have access to their collections until their next monthly payment is due.â¦
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The software giant&#39;s experiment in the rapidly expanding music download market has now set up shop in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Austria and Spain, bringing the number of countries with MSN Music services to 17.
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Virgin Electronics is challenging Apple&#39;s iPod digital-music player, launching its own 5-GB device. Virgin&#39;s player can store more than 1,200 tracks and sells for $249.
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Richard Branson&#39;s Virgin Group has become the latest company to throw its hat into the online music ring by launching the Virgin Digital service.
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RICHARD Branson&#39;s Virgin Group said today it was jumping into the market for online music, with a &quot;Digital Megastore&quot; offering US customers song downloads for 99 US cents ($1.