Amie Street: not the typical digital store

Posted by Flick - 06/08/08 at 11:08:54 am

While most people think of iTunes (and now Amazon) when thinking of a digital music store, the number of digital stores has grown tremendously over the past five years. There is a digital store that you may have not heard of, called Amie Street, and it takes a unique approach towards selling music… an approach that honors Music 2.0 principles and combines social networking aspects.

At first glance, Amie Street looks like a normal digital store; sign up for an account and you’ll find out that the members affect the price of the songs. When a song or album is added to Amie Street, the price is set at free. This gives the album an initial boost of downloads and helps the artist climb into the charts (since so many of us are attracted to free music). As people begin to download songs, the price per song slowly increases, capping at .98cents per song. Amie Street sets the value of the songs according to demand of the song.

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