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2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without
For the second year in a row AmieStreet.com was named one of the top web 2.0 companies "I couldn't live without" by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.
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New Music Model: Free Before Fee, Web Site Links Download Prices to Songs' Popularity
"Amie Street's solution is a plan where songs start as free downloads and then inch their way up in price as they get more popular, to a cap of 98 cents per song, based on the number of downloads. By recommending music and offering song reviews, members can also earn credit toward purchases."
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What The Hell Is Amie Street Music? And What Does Eliot Spitzer's Taste In High-End Hookers Have To Do With It?
"Sometimes, it takes the fall of a powerful public figure to draw the public's attention to a great online music site."
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New Walkmen Album Available Today For $5.
"NYC mope-rockers the Walkmen have teamed up with Amie Street to release You and Me... three weeks before its physical release date for the more-than-a-bargain price of $5"
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Music's New Supply/Demand Model: Amie Street Site Prices Song Downloads Based on Popularity, Starting at Zero
"The times they are a changing, and in the case of Amie Street, like Facebook and Napster before it, the company is founded by a group of people under 30 -- in this case, three seniors in Brown University's class of 2006."
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Fledgling Web Sites Help Indie Musicians
"While the debate about how much a song is worth rages on, Amie Street uses a variable pricing structure that lets fans do the math."
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Spitzer Scandal Boosts Music Startup
"AmieStreet.com, a two-year-old Web site founded by three Brown University students and backed by Amazon.com, has had a flood of traffic as thousands have sought to listen to the pop music stylings of Ms. Dupre."
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SONGS FOR LESS: Amazon.com Explores Variable Pricing for Tracks
"[Amazon.com] yesterday announced an investment of an undisclosed size in New York-based AmieStreet.com, a digital music store where users determine the price of songs based on demand for tracks."
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The Walkmen Pre-Release New Album For Charity
"We have all witnessed some interesting sales (or non-sales) tactics by artists in the last couple of years, from giving their album away to corporate branding to letting us choose our own price, but this is clearly the best idea we've heard so far."
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AmieStreet.com Combines iTunes, 'Idol'
"While "American Idol" is busy culling the next Kelly Clarkson from the legions of warbling weirdoes, many Web sites also are sifting the great unwashed for musical talent. AmieStreet.com is a unique digital music store where amateur and aspiring musicians of all genres can upload their songs to the site, which allows prices to be dictated by the market." Read Full Article>>
"CD or Not CD?"
"There are as many price points as there are buyers; music providers are exploring a host of models to match listeners with songs." Read Full Article>>
"Music at Market Prices"
"Amie Street aims to make it easy and affordable for consumers to discover new independent music. What makes it unique? Every song sold at the 'fly little music site' starts off being free and the price increases to a maximum of USD 0.98 depending on how many people download it. The more popular a song, the faster its price will increase to 98 cents. Besides giving early buyers a better deal, the market price system gives them the added pleasure of seeing they've discovered a song or artist before everyone else has."
"Master P's Latest: So This is What Profanity-Free hip hop Sounds Like"
"Master P and his son, Romeo, are taking the fight against what some people deem to be objectionable rap lyrics seriously: They co-founded Take a Stand Records, a label that will put out "hip-hop artists with street music without offensive lyrics." Today the label's maiden digital release with independent online music store AmieStreet.com — Gutta Music All-Stars, a mixtape of hip-hop singles originally released in May-comes out, featuring a bonus Master P/Romeo duet called "Let the Kids Grow.""
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"Goodbye, AllofMP3.com..."
"Amie Street's variable-pricing model rewards success; songs are initially free, but once enough people download them, prices rise. Its home page lists one album for just 86 cents, but others go for about $3 or $4. For a name-brand artist--for instance, The Game and the Barenaked Ladies--you're looking at $7 to $9 an album."" Read Full Article>>
"How Much is The Game Worth To You?"
"Today, AmieStreet.com marks the date "6/6" by offering six new (and exclusive) tracks from the Game. (It's no "4/20," but, hey, you take what you can get.) In keeping with the online music store's demand-based pricing system, the songs will initially be available free of charge, before increasing popularity drives the costs up to their $0.98 ceiling. (And even if you don't actually like the Game, you're probably still thinking of getting these songs anyways, succumbing to the irresistible lure of a "good deal." It's the same impulse that led me to fill my closet with garments from Burlington Coat Factory.)"" Read Full Article>>
"Web Sites Making Music for Your Ears"
"It's a futures market for independent-music fanatics that features (mostly unsigned) bands from a wide variety of genres."
"America's Best Young Entrepreneurs"
"Another way to market and sell independent music? Amie Street, an online music retail site for independent content, uses a unique rating system where all songs are available for free at first. Then, depending on how popular a song is within a market, it goes up in price."
"Online Music: Many Songs Sell for a few Cents"
''The song "Waitin'" by R&B and hip-hop singer Choklate, can be downloaded from several places online. On iTunes and Napster.com, it costs 99 cents. But on a new Web site, it's selling for 23 cents -- for now, anyway.''
"Amie Street signs major artists to sell DRM-free music"
"As the music DRM debate rages on, some services are moving forward with DRM-free music and are starting to sign on some major names. Amie Street, launched last July, is a web-based music service that, until now, has mostly offered the music of independent artists for purchase without DRM. However, Amie Street recently signed a new deal with Nettwerk Music Group--home to a number of well-known artists such as the Barenaked Ladies." Read Full Article>>
"Looking For A Digital Music Deal on Amie Street"
"Every day, a new music-delivery system enters the world--but few of them have a pricing model quite like Amie Street, which was inspired in part by the stock market: Songs are initially posted for free, and only go up in price when they're downloaded multiple times. Founded by three college seniors in Providence, Rhode Island, Amie Street provides artists a fairly generous 70% cut of every song sale, although there's no explanation as to how they cut checks for seventy percent of a penny." Read Full Article>>
Amie St: Music Downloads Market Priced
"Amie Street could be disruptive to the music industry as they let the market put a value on the price of music and not visa versa. Power to the people..."
"Nettwerk Teams With AmieStreet.com"
"AmieStreet.com, an online music store that features both user generated content and the content of record labels, has announced a partnership with the Nettwerk Music Group, adding Barenaked Ladies' new album to their website this week. The website only provides users with mp3s free of DRM, with the Barnaked Ladies the first major band to put their album on the site."
