Business Model Music sites primarily earn revenues from subscriptions, music downloads, advertisements and the different products sold through its sites. Most music sites are allowing downloads at approximately 99 cents per song and analysts say it is not enough to cover the costs. Currently most of the music sites are losing money. Napster (NAPS) and
Top Music Sites and Rankings Among the online music portals, AOL Music has 15.66% market share (including Napster’s 2.6% market share) and more than 350,000 music subscribers to its credit. The site attracted 161,497,557 users in December 2006. AOL Music is the leading online music site with 25.2 million unique visitors, followed by Yahoo! Music
Overview Online music has come a long way from the Napster years. Today there are many more legal sources of digital music and these have been growing over the past few years. Many consumers are willing to pay for music downloads and this has resulted in the emergence of Apple’s ITunes Music Store. But the