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Digital
Qriocity music launches in US and down under
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 February 2011
Sony yesterday launched its streaming music service, the always snappy to say Music Unlimited powered by Qriocity, in the US, Australia and New Zealand. As previously reported, the streaming music service, which works on most net-connected Sony devices, launched in the UK in December and elsewhere in Europe last month.
Meanwhile, a Sony spokesman has denied that Sony Music is considering pulling its content from iTunes. As previously reported, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia, Michael Ephraim, recently predicted the rise of streaming music services like Qriocity and observed that could overcome the dominance of Apple in the digital music space. But his comments were widely reported as Sony considering withdrawing from the iTunes store.
Sony Network Entertainment’s COO in the US, Shawn Layden, clarified the situation this week, telling reporters: “Sony Music, as I understand it, has no intention of withdrawing from iTunes, they’re one of our biggest partners in the digital domain. I think those words were either taken out of context or the person who spoke them was unclear on the circumstances”.
