eMusic is the internet's corner music store. It offers a deeper, more personal alternative to mass market digital music retailers -- at better prices -- by combining the best of ecommerce, community and editorial content to create a more immersive, authentic music experience. Award-winning editorial, a state-of-the-art recommendations system, and social media features provide the most musical context for an enthusiastic community of music fans, record labels, and artists alike. Customers are encouraged to explore music with subscription-based pricing that rewards discovery at a better value than any legal competitor.
The groundbreaking digital music retailer was one of the first to sell DRM-free music in the popular MP3 format beginning in 1998 and became the first service to sell audiobooks in MP3 in 2007. MP3 is the only DRM-free digital format that offers all the functions of physical music products such as the CD and is compatible with all digital audio devices, including the iPod® and Zune ®.
www.eMusic.com was originally launched as a CD retailer in September 1995 by Creative Fulfillment, Inc. under the name eMusic. In 1998, it was acquired by Goodnoise, and in 2000, launched the world’s first digital music subscription service. In 2003, Dimensional Associates, an operating company that manages private equity investments made by JDS Capital, purchased eMusic from Vivendi’s VU Net USA, which bought the company in 2001. Since then, the company has increased its subscriber base to more than 400,000, expanded into 26 EU nations and Canada, and sold nearly 300 million music downloads.
eMusic caters to music lovers in the underserved 25-54 demographic. It does so by cultivating a vast catalogue of more than five million tracks from over 60,000 record labels that span every conceivable music genre including rock, jazz, comedy, hip-hop, blues, classical, country, folk, children's music, electronic, world, reggae and more.
eMusic’s roots are in its deep relationships with the world’s most innovative record labels. Its label roster includes top sellers like Concord Music Group, Koch, Naxos and Beggars Group, and other well-known independents such as Saddle Creek, Warp, Domino, Barsuk, Touch and Go, Merge, Sun, Cooking Vinyl, Fantasy, Bloodshot, Blood and Fire, TVT, Nettwerk, Thrill Jockey, Fat Possum, Razor & Tie, Six Degrees, SST, Smithsonian Folkways and Stones Throw, to name a few.
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