Is The Price Of Music Dropping?
Dec1603:57 PM
Filed in: Music News
Let's hope so. Lower music prices for the consumer can only spur greater sales and help save a weak industry.
Industry insiders have theorized that if the price of music hits the tipping point of being so cheap that it simply isn't worth your time to search for free downloads, sales will surge and the industry will start to regain lost ground.
But where is that tipping point? It certainly isn't $9.99.
Is it $4.99? $3.99?
10 cents a song?
So the question is this: Is this an experiment by Universal Music and Amazon? Or is this just a routine holiday special designed to entice seasonal shoppers to add more items into their online "shopping carts" during an economic recession?
OR will the industry shift and away from pay-per-downloads altogether and evolve into monthly, unlimited music rental plans? Despite the efforts of Rhapsody, will consumers embrace music rentals and not care about actually owning the files?
Only time will tell...but for the time being, if you like Fall Out Boy (ack!), take advantage while you can.
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MP3 Daily Deal
Today's special:
Fall Out Boy's brand-new album, Folie à Deux.
Everyday low price: $8.99
Today's price: $3.99
