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Universal To Sell Music On Flash Drives

October 24, 2007 by in Cool,News with 4 Comments

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Universal Music will begin selling singles on USB drives later this year at £4.99 in the UK while CD singles go for £2.99. The angle here is that they’re offering this because consumers don’t think of CDs as “cool” anymore and will opt to go for the digital version of the songs. Being on USB drives, the extra space means extra content could be available, such as ringtones and music videos. The plan should transition into full albums being available as well while acts to be available include Kanye West and Any Winehouse.

So, what do we think? Personally, this is great, they’re trying something new, but I don’t really care to have a bunch of USB drives. I think people just want to download, period. Who knows where this may lead?

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  • http://www.flax.org Daniel

    I believe that the final settlement between Apple Inc (Computer) and Apple Music (Beatles) allowed Apple Inc. to begin selling music via contraptions. Whereas before there were prohibited from selling physical media or devices with music on them – note that the U2 iPods didn’t come pre-loaded, but rather with a coupon for downloads.

    I figure this might lead to many different pre-loaded band-branded iPod products. Imagine that when Big Named Artist leaves their label and does a direct deal with Apple for iTunes distribution of their upcoming new album, Apple could product an iPod shuffle or Nano specifically colored to match the band’s logos pre-loaded with the new music and other content.

    I would have thought we’d have already seen this, but since we haven’t maybe there just isn’t much desire from Apple or the bands – or that the labels were in the way and now we might actually start seeing this kind of thing.

  • jackspratt

    this is yet another example of Universal’s cluelessness. i agree with you…people want to download. USB Drives with music is a solution in search of a problem.

  • Justin

    I always thought putting them on SD cards would be more efficient (less space + more capacity than CDs/DVDs), but then again, not everybody has a card reader.

  • Howard

    Sorry to say, but what dumba**es are they. I’d stay with downloads, thank you. I like iTunes but most of the music there got DRM and it’s a pain to dealwith when I want to transfer them to some other computer (limit 5 computers per song). Also 128 bit on iTunes is just not doing it for me. Although they got some iTunes Plus stuff but they’re mostly EMI stuff. Then Amazon came to the rescue just in time and I’m pretty happy about Amazon entering this type of music business, cheap and DRM-free. Now Universal is gonna sell what? Flash drives? Where did that idea came from? At lease for CDs I can stack them, how do I stack the flash drives. I believe people are more concern about DRM or not, but CD vs flash drives? I agree, Universal is just clueless… Someone please go explain to that CEO of theirs and tell him what consumers really want…

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