Legit online music website Pressplay has signed a licensing deal with BMG which will bring the likes of Elvis Presley and Whitney Houston to the download service. This means the service now has EMI, Sony, BMG and Universal on board – only Warner’s catalogues are not available to Pressplay users.
A spokesman said the latest deal with BMG would add "tens of thousands" more songs to the service, which they claim now gives fans to the chance to listen to 120,000 songs via their computers. Pressplay offers two levels of service to subscribers – for a basic fee they can stream any song from the whole catalogue (listen to them via their internet browser), for an extra fee they can download a certain number of MP3s to their computer or MP3 player. The service, founded by Sony and Universal, is fully legit, though whether it can ever truly compete with the illegal free download sites remains to be seen.