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Online music sales service by Google that opened on Wednesday (11/16/2011) or eight years after Apple released its iTunes service.
"Today we announce, you can buy millions of songs from the Android Market," said Google Product Manager Paul Joyce in a press conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
This new service is available free in the United States. The songs can be enjoyed through the Android Market, Android-based phones. Services for applying Android tablet PCs will be opened in the near future. Android users can also upload from Android devices.
This service was established in cooperation with Google's top three music labels, namely Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI Music. Google also provides 8 million songs from all three music industry and will membanderolnya a price of 99 cents to 1.29 dollars per song.
"Working closely with Google in the sale of our songs is a breakthrough. We hope this will be a source of new revenue for our artists," said Robert Wells as President of Global Digital Business at Universal Music.