Yahoo Music Joins iTunes in Japan

By Nate Mook | Published August 22, 2005, 10:45 AM

Fresh off launching the final version of Yahoo! Music Unlimited in the United States last week, Yahoo on Monday announced it was opening its music service for consumers in Japan. Yahoo will make available 100,000 tracks and allow customers to listen to full songs before buying - the first music store to offer such capability.

Apple's iTunes, meanwhile, has proven a hit in Japan where it sold over 1 million songs in the first four days. Yahoo's quick move to join Apple in the number-two music market could put pressure on the market leader, but iTunes still touts a music library ten times the size of Yahoo's. Napster has also announced intentions to launch a Japanese music store, but not until next spring.

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I tried the Yahoo service and found it buggy and their customer service unknowledgable. However, when I called Rhapsody and complained that the Yahoo service was cheaper, they did lower my subscription rate by 50%, so the Yahoo service did serve a useful purpose.

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well then, would an oakley thump be a better option? run a search ^^ this not spam (saw some comment spam on a dif blog...ew)

ah well glad there's competition, in the long run this will drive down prices of cds in japan (which are twice the US ones or more) i want my jpop ^^

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what a joke. a single song is less than worthless & so is jumping on the ipod/itunes band wagon. ipod's are special in that they are overpriced & underfeatured

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