Amazon MP3 Store

Amazon has launched a public beta of its MP3 Store.

Amazon MP3 Open for Public Beta
3:04 AM PDT, September 25, 2007

We're extremely happy to announce we've launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, our new digital music service. You're officially welcome to shop Earth's biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 digital music downloads.

To put it plainly, we're music nerds who love bargains and want to be able to transfer our digital music between our computers, portable players and CD-Rs with no strings attached, so we worked to build a place where we would want to shop. We hope you're as excited about this as we are.

We've got over 2 million songs by more than 180,000 artists from over 20,000 major and independent labels, so there's plenty of great music to discover. Since our top 100 albums are priced at $8.99 and our top 100 songs are priced at 89 cents (unless marked otherwise, like, say, it's a double album or something like that), you can score high-quality mp3s from artists like Kanye West, KT Tunstall and Spoon at low prices.

You'll find more than just the bestsellers at those prices, though. More than 1 million of our 2 million songs are priced at 89 cents and most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. We're bringing great selection and great prices to digital music.

Since all our digital music downloads are DRM-free, you can play them on anything that plays mp3s including PCs, Macs™, iPods™, Zunes™, Zens™, iPhones™, RAZRs™, and BlackBerrys. Plus, our Amazon MP3 Downloader application makes it easy to add your downloads to iTunes™ and Windows Media Player™, so you can sync up your devices or burn your music to CD hassle-free.

We're dedicated to making Amazon MP3 the best place to buy digital music and we're interested in your feedback during our beta. Check out the store, let us know what you like and, more importantly, what we can do to make this a better site for you by emailing us at amazonmp3-feedback@amazon.com.

Thanks and happy downloading!

~Jeff Reguilon and Alan Wiley, Amazon MP3 editors

By the way, Guns N' Roses are #39 out of the top 100 artists. Pretty good considering they haven't released anything is over a decade.