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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Napster Passes Half Million Paid Subscribers

TheStreet.com:

Napster said the number of premium paid subscribers to its digital music subscription service passed 500,000.

The Los Angeles-based company said there are over 50,000 college students subscribing to the service through Napster's university program. The company said that over the last year its subscriber base has more than doubled.

"Doubling our subscribers over the last twelve months demonstrates the mass market potential of our music subscription model and the powerful appeal of Napster to music fans who want it all," said CEO Chris Gorog. "With a track record of robust growth, exciting new developments in the pipeline and over $100 million on our balance sheet, we are extremely excited about the future of Napster."

Maybe there's hope for subscription music services yet. This is pretty decent, considering that Napster is the low-rent subscription music service (compared to higher quality offerings like Yahoo Music and Rhapsody).

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