Cyber Monday comes to Google Music, popular albums reduced to $1.99

google 520x245 Cyber Monday comes to Google Music, popular albums reduced to $1.99

To tempt more users to its new Music Store, Google has begun a Cyber Monday promotion that sees albums from some of the worlds most popular musicians reduced to $1.99 for today only.

Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving (and Black Friday) is typically used by retailers to tempt consumers online to part with the cash that they didnt spend bargain hunting in bricks-and-mortar stores on theprecedingFriday. Googles promotion sees albums from Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga,Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Drake all priced at $1.99:

original 520x155 Cyber Monday comes to Google Music, popular albums reduced to $1.99

Unfortunately, music fans outside of the U.S are unable to enjoy the significant discounts on albums on Googles Music Store.

The store launched onAndroid devices and the Web at the These Go to Eleven event in Los Angeles on November 16, after the company sawan immense amount of interest in the beta version of the service, with 1 million testerslisteningto 2.5 hours of music a day.

Googles Music partners include EMI, Universal, Sony Music Entertainment, as well as a bunch of smaller indie labels to total over 1,000 partners. This ensures that over 13 million tracks will be available on the Android Market, 8 million of ! which ar e live today.

The mobile app, which is available for any device from Android 2.2 and up, will allow you to stream your collection as well as pin music to the device, which will let you listen to it offline.Users can also share their purchases via Google+, allowing their friends to listen to some of the tracks before deciding whether they wish to buy them.

Googles Cyber Monday deals will last for 24 hours only. Again, its only available to users in the U.S.

AfU7cf2CAAA M4m 520x399 Cyber Monday comes to Google Music, popular albums reduced to $1.99


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

12 startup founders discuss working on Christmas Day

Image
Well, it would seem a trifle rude to not begin proceedings with a warm Merry Christmas. But I must askwhat the hell are you doing reading this when you should be playing your new Nintendo 3DS, or guzzling that tenth mince pie of the day? But then, you will probably ask what the hell am I doing here writing this piece on the holiest of holy-days. My excuse? I love what I do, so its not like Im really working per seplus, I actually prepped much of it yesterday. And your excuse is likely along the lines of I love all things tech, why would I switch off just because my calendar says December 25? Fair point. Confucius once said: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Nice sentiments for sure, but theres still the issue of a healthy work/life balance to contend with even for startup founders. So I asked a handful of founders and CEOs whether they would be working on Christmas Day this year, or whether theyd treat themselves to a day off. I mean, it is a...
Keep reading

Flipboard needs to branch its content out from US/UK, heres why

Image
Earlier this month, an eagerly anticipated iPhone app was finally launched as Flipboard took its highly acclaimed iPad app to the phone. The app has been out for a few weeks and, with the deafening chorus of cheers fading, Ive found myself shunning its beautiful and innovative design for the simple fact that its content isnt relevant enough for me. Compared to Zite , which may not be as aesthetically pleasing, Flipboard comes up wanting on content. Zite is, among others , an app which aggregates content from my social web Twitter, Google Reader and others giving it to me in a magazine style layout. Though it lacks the page flipping ingenuity of Flipboard, the reading is more varied, which is ultimately what Im looking for from a social magazine. There is credit to be given to Flipboard however, as it is addressing the issue by building an editorial team, as its founder told Robert Scoble recently . The company has also started curating content publicly too, with @flipboardtech cura...
Keep reading

Digitimes: Apples iPhone 5 to include smaller screen and metal chassis

Contray to previous reports that suggested Apples next-generation iPhone would include a 4.2-inch touch screen panel, Asian technology publication Digitimes reports that the device will feature a smaller 4-inch panel, adapting the rear of the device to ship with a metal chassis instead of reinforced glass. Digitimes points out that the many of the rumoured specifications expected to be featured in the iPhone 5 are the markets expectations, with sources indicating that the device will possibly adopt a significantly smaller screen than first imagined: The sources pointed out that the upcoming iPhone will not have many differences compared to iPhone 4 in terms of components and the panel will still be less than 4-inch. The iPhone 5 will adopt a 3.5- to 3.7-inch panel with a design to allow the bezel of the panel to become thinner and make the screen look larger. The inclusion of a metal back will divide opinion, given suggestions that Apple had intentionally utilised glass designs to boo...
Keep reading