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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

RealNetworks Celebrates Bringing Harmony to Music Fans - Sells More Than 1 Million Songs in a Week

PR: "RealNetworks(R), Inc. today announced that more than one million songs were sold in the first week of the Freedom of Choice campaign. The combination of the ongoing 49-cent-per-song RealPlayer Music Store promotion and a simultaneous promotion of Rhapsody resulted in the highest number of songs sold in a week by RealNetworks and the busiest week ever for Rhapsody registrations. Last week, RealNetworks, already the leader in music subscription services with more than 550,000 music subscribers as of the end of June, launched the 49-cent promotion and RealPlayer 10.5 with Harmony Technology. Harmony Technology enables consumers to play songs downloaded from the RealPlayer Music Store on more than 100 portable music devices ... The RealPlayer Music Store provides the highest quality of any download store: 192 kbps RealAudio 10 with AAC. With the newly introduced Harmony Technology, consumers can transfer their purchased songs to more than 100 portable music devices, including the iPod ... The 49-cent Freedom of Choice promotion is still available for a limited time only."

I'm almost astonished at how much music I've purchased from Real since this promotion began: I literally hadn't purchased this volume of music in over a decade, and it shows you what the right pricing can do. It's been a great time to catch up on a bunch of albums I had never purchased. But while back, I had taken the time to go over the Billboard Top 100 singles lists for the past 25 years and note the songs I wanted to have; this week, I downloaded all the ones I didn't have for just 49 cents each, which is sweet.

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