Yahoo Music Store

Posted by Thomas McMahon on May 11th, 2005 in Online Marketing |

Yahoo is the latest company to create their own music store. Yahoo’s music store offers unlimited downloads of 1 million songs for $6.99 per month or $60 for an annual subscription. However, you don’t own the songs. You can’t burn them to a CD or even play them if you cancel your subscription. If you want to own your songs, it’s an extra 79 cents per song.

The Yahoo music service will be directly challenging iTunes, Rhapsody and Napster with thier subscription based music store. It sounds like a better, cheaper, deal than Napster, however I don’t believe it can compare to iTunes, non-subscription, non-restrictive service.