[Jason Dunn]

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/0...l-music-prices/

"You kind of knew it wasn't going to last and that this would happen. The day after iTunes put its price increase into effect (some songs for as high as $1.29, some as low as $.69), the other big online music retailers followed suit. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Lala, and Rhapsody, have now raised their prices as well. All but Walmart now list prices for hot selling and new stuff at $1.29 per song. Walmart is at $1.24...Somewhere some music industry execs are smiling and smoking cigars over this."

I don't mean to contradict my friends over at GottaBeMobile.com, but I figured I'd check out Amazon before I posted this story - and in the listing of top-selling MP3s, you have to go down to #24 before you see a track for $1.29. In the top 100 songs, only nine of them are more expensive than 99 cents. I also checked the Zune store, and most songs are still 79 points with a handful being 99 points. So hopefully this isn't as wide-spread as the post over at GottaBeMobile would suggest...I gues over the next few weeks we'll see.

[Jason Dunn]

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/0...l-music-prices/

"You kind of knew it wasn't going to last and that this would happen. The day after iTunes put its price increase into effect (some songs for as high as $1.29, some as low as $.69), the other big online music retailers followed suit. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Lala, and Rhapsody, have now raised their prices as well. All but Walmart now list prices for hot selling and new stuff at $1.29 per song. Walmart is at $1.24...Somewhere some music industry execs are smiling and smoking cigars over this."

I don't mean to contradict my friends over at GottaBeMobile.com, but I figured I'd check out Amazon before I posted this story - and in the listing of top-selling MP3s, you have to go down to #24 before you see a track for $1.29. In the top 100 songs, only nine of them are more expensive than 99 cents. I also checked the Zune store, and most songs are still 79 points with a handful being 99 points. So hopefully this isn't as wide-spread as the post over at GottaBeMobile would suggest...I gues over the next few weeks we'll see.

[Alber1690]

Yeah...this explains the last couple of songs I've been paying 99 points for on Zune...sure makes the Zune Pass a lot more appealing now. I wonder if that will be affected.

[Phillip Dyson]

Good question. Will we start seeing that some songs take two credits instead of one? Or will few songs be available to use credits on?

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by Phillip Dyson

Good question. Will we start seeing that some songs take two credits instead of one? Or will few songs be available to use credits on?

Wow, yeah, that's a great question! It would FULLY suck if they started having some songs take more than one credit. I imagine they won't require that...I guess we'll see.