SnoCap, MySpace's music store partner, has created music widgets for a number of artists from the littlest major label, EMI, that can be embedded anywhere HTML is used. From these widgets, fans can purchase unprotected 320 Kbps MP3s for $1.30 apiece with full albums coming later at a yet-to-be-determined price.
As music audiences splinter ever further, widgets like this give labels and artists an easy way to put MP3 stores wherever their audience happens to be. (Unlike other music selling widgets, SnoCap doesn't pay a percentage of sales to the person doing the embedding, so its widgets only show up on bands' official pages or those of genuine fans).
First EMI released unprotected AACs on Apple iTunes, and now it's selling unprotected MP3s all over the web, proving once again that out of all the majors, it could be the one with the cojones to survive the digital music transition.
Here's an initial list of EMI artists with SnoCap MP3 store widgets; many others are expected to follow.
30 Seconds To Mars - KORN -
Sick Puppies -
The Almost -
Yellowcard -
The Bird and The Bee -
Elisabeth Withers --
Relient K -
Saosin -
Mims -
Blue Note Label -
Ryland Angel -
TobyMac –
Joe Lovano -
Dean Martin
