Independent download store MBop has announced that they are now shifting 100,000 downloads a month, that their customer database now counts 12 million domestic residents and that they have just signed new licensing deals with V2 and Beggars Banquet, which isn't bad for a digital music service I hadn't ever actually visited until I copied http://www.MbopMegastore.com into my browser just there then.
The company's boss Paul Balance told CMU: "I am incredibly proud of my huge team, together we have made an unprecedented ascent into the UK music market, we are on the cusp of a great wave. Our customer base now enables us, a small British company, to give Napster and iTunes an interesting battle. Month after month we have climbed beyond measure, now we are ready to step centre stage".