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Website MySpace is to allow unsigned bands featured on the social networking site to sell their music as downloads.
The site – which has 106 million users – is currently testing the idea, and hopes to rival market leader iTunes.
Nearly three million bands feature on the site, with individual bands set to decide on the price of their tracks.
“The goal is to be one of the biggest digital music stores out there,” MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe told news agency Reuters.
“Everyone we’ve spoken to definitely wants an alternative to iTunes and the iPod. MySpace could be that alternative.”
MySpace, which is owned by media giant News Corporation, currently allows visitors to the site to listen to up to four songs per band – but these cannot be bought.
“A band in Iowa can now reach out to fans in Los Angeles,” said Mr DeWolfe.
“They can actually sell their music on MySpace in an area where their fans congregate in a very contextual manner.”
In the past year, MySpace.com became the single most visited internet address among US web users – although that position is now strongly contested by video site YouTube.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5316000.stm
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