Sony to offer music downloads in U.K.

June 16, 2003

Sony Music will start selling online music downloads in the United Kingdom in cooperation with OD2 that has partnered with several music website. Sony Music is amongst the last companies that is currently offering their music for download. The company has however announced the service will only be available to customers in the United Kingdom and not to customers in e.g Europe.

We're in negotiation with Sony for the other territories," said Charles Grimsdale, chief executive of OD2, the technology provider that brokered the deal. "Hopefully, we'll be able to bring Sony onboard across Europe fairly soon."

During the next six weeks, Sony will supply music to OD2 partners that include BT Group's Dotmusic.com, Ministry of Sound, the U.K. Web sites of MTV, Microsoft's MSN, retailer HMV Group, and Internet service providers Tiscali and Freeserve.

Sony Musics artists are e.g Jennifer Lopez and Micheal Jackson. The company has over 200.000 songs to offer. Read the entire story here.

Source: Cnet.com