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Yahoo! Raises Music Prices. Apple Responds By Raising Market Share.

cnn.com — Effective November 1, Yahoo will charge about $120 annually for access via download to more than 1 million songs that can then be transferred to portable players.

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  • BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Love the title.
  • Seaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Apple could not be reached for comment.
  • dgath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Woooo! Glad I saw this tonight. Love Yahoo Music and only been paying monthly. Yahoo continues to hold the title as world's worst programmed website. They make it impossible to upgrade your account from monthly to yearly so screw it.... I was getting too much spam anyways, might as well just make a new account.

    Gotta say this is the first time Digg saved me some cash, $60 at that too!

    Dugg
  • Mark_H, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's still not bad, IMO. I could totally see myself downloading more than 120 songs in a year.
  • Sleestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Jobs said it would take five months before they abandoned their pricing structure. It took a bit longer, but he was right!

    http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1089
  • brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great title.
  • Drahknon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wish Apple would raise the sample quality of their music, regardless of what they do with the price.
  • ebenthurston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0excellent title. dugg for copy writing.
  • bipto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Absolute best title ever on Digg. Dugg just for that...
  • MyNightwish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Greed
  • IHaveIssues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1$120 a year. Hahahahahahahahahhaahahhaahahahhaahahhahahahahaha
  • peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Still not bad. That works out to one $10 CD per month.
  • Wogna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yeah, a $10 that you payed to borrow
  • Doofy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4$120 a year and at the end of it, you own NOTHING.
  • SirThom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That title's good.

    It should be noted that you can't play the songs from Yahoo! on your iPod...so I don't know how any company other than Apple (which has exclusive rights between iPod and iTunes) can make money. The iPod is the #1 MP3 player, the iTMS is the #1 music store. It just can't be beat in the long run.
  • cyzum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Great title.
  • nopal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it's $12 a month, and there are 12 months, isn't it $144/year?

    $144 is 20% more than $120, so I'm not sure why CNN neglected to note the true price.
  • calking, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1another failed attempt by yahoo and real to bring mp3 fans to their side, pathetic
  • birch25, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the $120 every year for the rest of my life (or whenever this store dies) is too much for me. i want to own what i pay for. i don't want to be borrowing my entire music collection. just a personal feeling, but the songs i bought on itunes will be mine forever and they'll never become obsolete, or disappear when the itunes music store closes.

    not to mention that you can discover new artists easily enough in itunes by listening to the 30 second full quality previews of every song and video. add in imixes, itunes suggestions based on my purchases, and most downloaded lists, and you get a very nice way to discover new music without paying a monthly fee.
  • geekologist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I have SBC Yahoo DSL and I don't use anything that has to do with Yahoo. Google all the way man. Gmail rocks, Yahoo is the crapiest site on the web and I hope Google will buy them out and get rid of them. The same goes for MSN and DEFINATELY AOL.
  • mojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol, brilliant!
  • Metman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Apple Fan-Boys Rejoice
  • mavranos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When will these folks realize that subscription based services are about as appealing as an iodine enema.
    It ain't about Apple fanaticism. Its about what works and what is comfortable for the person paying.
  • rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You know that you can just buy $.99 burnable songs from Yahoo without any kind of subscription or anything right? (this their standard price and its not changing at all). If you get the monthly subscription, you get unlimited downloads (non-transferable) and $.79 burnable songs (this is the price that is going up).

    http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/

    I'd take that over the DRM-filled iTunes stuff any day, but that's just me. Yahoo is still probably the most competitively priced service out there compared to Napster, etc.

    Usability is another issue though - you'd think Yahoo would take a cue from Apple + Google and say, hey, maybe if we invested a bit more in our interfaces, we could be more successful.
  • joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I don't know how any company other than Apple (which has exclusive rights between iPod and iTunes) can make money."

    eMusic? It's rather easy...a company just has to sell MP3s. Not that DRMed crap.

    As for subscription models, I think that's a fine model. it's just different...really no different than paying for cable or Sirius radio. It's certainly not the same model as iTunes, though. They compete in different spaces, IMHO.
  • joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Yahoo is still probably the most competitively priced service out there compared to Napster, etc."

    Once again: eMusic.com. About $.25 per song.

    "Usability is another issue though"

    I agree. You see a lot of the anti-apple-fan-boy-fan-boys that rip on Apple because they are succeful with products that don't have the same bullet-point feature list as their own off-brand monstrosity of a device. People fail to realize that a big part of Apple's success...both with iTunes and the iPod is usability. Their products are simply a joy to use.
  • mhusson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is till ONLY $60/year to use the Yahoo! Music Unlimited service.

    The $120/year price tag is ONLY for those who transfer songs to their portable devices. Both options of Yahoo! Music Unlimited let you stream or download as much music as you want to your computer (including $0.79 downloads that never expire).

    I still think its a great service, I use it all day at work. I really wish iTunes had an "On Demand" feature like YME. As well as launchCast radio which is the best music exploration service I have ever used.
  • mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sooner or later it was coming... there are some capitalists over at RIAA, Yahoo, and Apple. They couldn't resist to raise prices.
  • rileyjt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I looked at eMusic.com - I'm not seeing it.

    * eMusic Basic: $9.99 per month/40 downloads
    * eMusic Plus: $14.99 per month/65 downloads
    * eMusic Premium: $19.99 per month/90 downloads

    Not too bad I guess for MP3s, but they don't have a very good selection of music. When your leading artist's last songs were from 35 years ago, you're in trouble. Check out their top artists list... http://www.emusic.com/charts/0/a/-dam/a/0-0/556/0.html

    Lets see them get that price for the latest Black Eyed Peas album - its not going to happen. The labels get most of the money for those downloads, companies like Yahoo and Apple are making very little money on these music services so there is not much room for price differentiation.
  • hawks5999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0also dugg for no other reason than the title. Would that CNN had the cajones to use that title.
  • UsernameTaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's COJONES no cajones, menso... ay dios mio!
    Great title, by the way.

  • TheJosher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now.. this is misleading. You'll still get the $6.99 pricing, but you'll only pay the $11.99 if you want to transfer the files to your portable player. Eg Napster for $9.95, and Napster to Go for $14.95. Yahoo is still cheaper than both (and with higher quality music, and less buy-only downloads)

    I liked Napster, but decided to cancel after my one-month trial. I'm keeping Yahoo.


    Josh
  • a99tandem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yahoo + tunebite = illegal but grrrrrreat
  • dvdcr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0another ***** fanboy.. opps i mean apple*
  • DogHumpsMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Another dugg on the title. Reminds me of the articles that used to be on satirewire.com
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