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MySpace Music Streams a Billion Songs in 'A Few Days'

by Tim Stevens on October 6, 2008 at 10:01 AM

MySpace's Re-Launched Music Streams a Billion Songs in
It was just a week ago that MySpace re-launched its Music service in partnership with Amazon, enabling any of the site's millions of users to stream the full albums of thousands of artists. Now, MySpace is calling that re-launch a success, saying that a massive billion songs have been streamed since the launch, and that it's still counting.

The re-launch expands greatly on the previous service that usually had a track or three from a limited number of artists and depended on those artists to manually upload the tracks. It's unclear just how popular that older, more limited service was (we're betting quite), so exactly how big of a milestone this is remains to be seen. But, the true proof will be in its long-term success, and in measurements of just how many users clicked on over to Amazon to buy tracks outright -- usually at per-track prices $0.20 cheaper than iTunes. For those figures, we'll just have to wait. [From: TechCrunch]

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