We’re all used to music stores to sell singles on CDs, but Universal Music seems to have taken a step ahead of everyone, selling singles on USB memory sticks instead.
This new format is an attempt of offering digital audio formats that are popular among the 12 to 24 year old crowd and with a hope to save the declining music sales.
The price of the USB single is more expensive than a CD single. A CD single currently costs around $6, whereas the USB single is asking for more than $10 each, which is almost double the price of a CD single. Anyway, this new way of releasing single is in USB memory stick is a hope to save the declining music sales caused by both illegal and legal music downloads in recent years. According to Times Online UK says that CD sales are down in the UK by 10% and in the U.S. by 19%.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
[...] SanDisk introduces slotMusic – Music on microSD cardSeptember 22nd, 2008 by ketyung SanDisk slotMusic – the music/MP3 on a microSD cardSanDisk has proposed their new idea of having music stored on a microSD card or slotMusic and each album is expected to sell at about $7-$10. Our storage devices are getting smaller and smaller these days. It shouldn’t be too much surprise having music stored on a microSD card after they’ve done it in a USB stick. [...]