Another nail in the coffin for ‘traditional’ music release methods as GrooveShark (think an in-browser Spotify with a slightly different catalogue) has signed a deal with EMI to offer their music to GrooveShark users. Grooveshark is free to users, but a $3 per month premium gets rid of all that. Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino says…
EMI Music and EMI Music Publishing have collaborated with us to create a mutually sustainable deal which represents the future of digital music, we will continue to deliver the best music service on the Internet to our users, and we will expand our capacity to strengthen fan-to-artist connections through our technology.
Blah blah – what this really means is the Labels are running scared of the really good streaming services and rather than bury their heads in the sand or take them on in the courts they are actually doing a clever thing and working with them.
About bloody time.
Also – GrooveShark is ace.
