The songs will cost between ¥158 and ¥368 (US$1.50 and $3.50), said Nozomi Yamaguchi, a spokeswoman for Label Gate in Tokyo. Yahoo Japan attracts around 39 million visitors a month and is ranked as the countries No.1 visited website. Label Gate began operations in 2000 with support from a handful of record companies and has steadily attracted the support of additional companies. It relaunched its own Web-based download service under the Mora name in April 2004 and in October launched a second service, called Music Drop that provides music in the Windows Media format.
It will be interesting to see how the store gets on with online music sales, as more and more competition keeps arising in the market. Apple's iTunes music service is currently the world’s most popular digital music store having sold over 200 million downloads.
Source:
The Standard
Written by: James Delahunty @ 23 Feb 2005 9:51
