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http://www.emusic.com/
eMusic is the world’s largest retailer of independent music and the
world’s second-largest digital music retailer overall, offering more
than 1.4 million tracks from more than 4,000 independent labels spanning
every genre of music. A subscription-based service that allows consumers
to own, not rent their music, eMusic is the largest service to sell
tracks in the popular MP3 format— the only digital music format that is
compatible with all digital music devices, including the iPod®. eMusic
targets and successfully direct-markets to consumers who are interested
in music outside the commercial mainstream, dramatically expanding the
sale of catalogue typically known as "the long tail." Since Dimensional
Associates acquired eMusic in 2003, the company has more than tripled
its subscriber base. eMusic caters to music lovers of all types in the
underserved 25-54 demographic. It does so by cultivating a vast
catalogue from the world’s top independent labels that spans every
conceivable musical genre, by offering unrivaled music discovery tools
and by providing tracks in a high bit rate (192K VBR) MP3 format with no
DRM. It all adds up to a pro-consumer experience that gives subscribers
the ultimate in flexibility, and just as importantly, ample
opportunities to discover new, exciting music. eMusic sells music in the
universally compatible MP3 format— the most widely utilized digital
music format, used by hundreds of millions of consumers, and the only
one that offers all the functions of physical music products such as the
CD. The MP3 format allows consumers to play tracks on any device, burn
CDs and make as many copies as they like for personal use. eMusic
focuses on selling music beyond the commercial mainstream in every
genre, including rock, jazz, comedy, hip-hop, blues, classical, country,
folk, children's music, electronic, world, reggae and more. Unlike so
much of today's commercial Top 40, independent music is simply about
great music. Top independent artists include familiar names such as
Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Bob Marley and Creedence
Clearwater Revival, established rule-breakers such as the Pixies,
Lucinda Williams and Black Flag, and breaking new artists like Neko
Case, the New Pornographers and Ying Yang Twins. UB
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