
Latest in very long line to enter online song-shop fray
By Jo Best
Published: 24 May 2004 12:50 GMT
With the long-awaited launch of Napster in the UK not even a week old and iTunes' promised European arrival getting closer, it seems everyone wants a slice of the music downloads market these days. The latest entrant into the pay-per-song fray, however, is raising a few eyebrows.
Charity Oxfam has announced the launch of its own song-shop offering – bignoisemusic.com - on 26 May. Like other download sites, users will be able to stream or download a track – prices for downloads start at 75p. The site will offer music fans 300,000 tracks from 12,000 artists.
Unlike other sites, though, profits will be used to help projects in the UK and the third world.
While the idea of a site that gives music lovers the opportunity to do a bit of a good and avail themselves of the odd exclusive track might give surfers the additional push to check out Oxfam's shop, the charity will be entering an already overcrowded market.
With big names like Coke, Virgin and Napster having launched their own download sites and others like Microsoft and Dell gearing up to have a pop, Oxfam, unfortunately, may yet have a bit of a struggle to woo the downloading punters.
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