Record labels are now aggressively doing deals with online providers such as AOL Time Warner’s America Online, Yahoo!’s Launch and Microsoft Corp.’s MSN in an effort to pump up sales for their artists. And the sites are anxious to showcase those artists as a way to keep people coming back and entice them to pay for premium services.
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