Why Listen.com is Better: Eric

Why Listen.com is Better: Eric Hellweg of Business 2.0 initially wrote off Listen.com’s online music subscription service, but things are beginning to change, as evidenced by the fact that Listen recently secured licensing rights to Universal Music Group’s catalog.

“For $9.95 per month, Listen offers unlimited streaming access to more than 170,000 songs on its site…Listen’s all-you-can-stream approach is markedly different from that of competing services MusicNet and Pressplay.”

“The Listen licensing coup signals an important shift in the world of online music: The primary problem for legitimate online music services is slowly evolving from a lack of tunes in their catalogs to a lack of customers. Arguably, given the record labels’ obstinate ways, the latter issue will be easier to resolve.”