Top New Music Releases

1. Auld Lang Syne – Straight No Chaser

2. Womanizer – Britney Spears

3. Christmas Tree – Lady GaGa

4. A Different Me – Keyshia Cole

5. Joseph, Better You Than Me – The Killers

Top Songs

1. Single Ladies – Beyoncé

2. Just Dance – Lady GaGa & Colby

3. Heartless – Kanye West

4. Love Story – Taylor Swift

5. Circus – Britney Spears

Top Albums

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guaraldi Trio

2. Holiday Spirits – Straight No Chaser

3. Folie à Deux – Fall Out Boy

4. Twilight – Various Artists

5. 808s & Heartbreak – Kanye West

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1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Enya

2. How Many Votes Fix Mix – EP – M.I.A.

3. Christmas In Hollywood – Hollywood Undead

4. Human (Remixes) – EP – The Killers

5. On My Radio – Musiq Soulchild

Top Songs

1. Circus – Britney Spears

2. Single Ladies – Beyoncé

3. Just Dance – Lady GaGa & Colby O’Donis

4. Love Lockdown – Kanye West

5. Heartless – Kanye West

Top Albums

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guaraldi Trio

2. Circus – Britney Spears

3. 808s & Heartbeat – Kanye West

4. Twilight (Original Soundtrack) – Various Artists

5. Fearless – Taylor Swift

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New Music Releases

1. Dynamite – Single – Christina Aguilera

2. Christmas Music Box Favourites – Countdown Kids

3. Angel In the Night – Basshunter

4. Your Call (Radio Version) – Secondhand Serenade

5. Emeritus – Scarface

Top Songs

1. Circus – Britney Spears

2. Single Ladies - Beyoncé

3. Just Dance – Lady GaGa & Colby

4. Beatuiful – Akon, Colby O’Donis & Kardinal Offshall

5. Love Lockdown – Kanye West

Top Albums

1. Circus – Britney Spears

2. 808s & Heartbeat – Kanye West

3. Twilight (Original Soundtrack) – Various Artists

4. Freedom – Akon

5. Day & Age - The Killers

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New Music Releases

1. We the Kings – We the Kings

2. Road to Revolution – Linkin Park

3. Who’s Gonna Save Your Soul – Gnarls Barkley

4. A Cross the Universe – Justice

5. Night Enchanted – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Top Songs

1. Single Ladies - Beyoncé

2. Just Dance – Lady GaGa & Colby

3. Love Lockdown – Kanye West

4. If I Were a Boy – Beyoncé

5. You Found Me – The Fray

Top Albums

1. 808s & Heartbeat – Kanye West

2. Day & Age – The Killers

3. Twilight (Original Soundtrack) – Various Artists

4. Prospekt’s March – Coldplay

5. Theater of the Mind – Ludacris

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“The aim is to make eMusic relevant for an audience that would otherwise link to bootlegs on blogs and elsewhere to get the same material.” -David Pakman, eMusic’s chief executive

I’m not sure about some, but I’ve seen plenty of iTunes links being shared around Twitter, Digg, and del.icio.us. Also, will adding Web 2.0 content like Wikipedia and Flickr content to the band pages make eMusic a better buying experience? My money is on no. Last.fm easily beats eMusic in the social networking field because they have been on the scene for some time now and already lets you add your friends to networks and find other people with similar tastes. My money is on Last.fm.

Via [Electronista]

Read [Fortune]

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You may remember Rhapsody as the people who brought you the $15 unlimited music plan where, as long as you paid $15 every month, you could download as many songs as you wanted. Well, that plan had DRM (digital rights management) so iPod users and users of MP3 players who didn’t have a Plays For Sure-player were out of luck. They have no seen the light and changed their ways to become more like the highly popular iTunes Store.

For just 99 cents you can buy an individual song and $9.99 will land you most complete albums. This is really similar to the iTunes Store, which has been the industry standard. Speculation is that they changed their pricing structure to combat iTunes Plus, Apple’s solution to DRM free songs. Also to combat iTunes is the ability to listen to the whole song before you purchase it compared to 30-second clips iTunes offers. On personal experience, the songs are lower quality than what you would purchase when you stream them due to the fact that people could record the songs the old analog way.

Also introduced was a partnership with Verizon Wireless with their VCAST service. For $15 per month, Verizon subscribers with compatible phones can download as many songs to their phones as they want. In other words, this is the same plan as the old Rhapsody, just now partnered with Verizon Wireless. This plan does include DRM when you have an unlimited plan, but there is an alternative. You can still purchase songs for 99 cents on the VZW/Rhapsody store on your computer DRM free or when you download music over the air for $1.99, it will also include a higher quality, DRM-free download. Confused? So are we.

To sum it up: Rhapsody says no to DRM except on the $15/month plan. This is a step in the right direction and hopefully all the music providers will cave in to DRM-free music.

Via [Ars Technica] and [Broadband Reports]

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Selection is fabulous with 6 million tracks; about 800,000 more than iTunes. But with pricing at 99 cents a track and $9.95 an album, Napster’s is slightly more expensive than Amazon’s 5.2 million track mp3 offering or Wal-Mart’s which currently has only EMI and WMG mp3 product.

Napster’s design feels unexciting and the interface less than thrilling, but it’s all in the early stage of development. Thus far, Napster is the only one to offer the subscription / mp3 purchase combo and that alone makes it worth consideration.

Check out Napster MP3 here and tell us what you think.

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