Virgin May Launch Music Service in August

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Virgin Digital, Richard Branson’s move on the digital music market, will launch in the UK next September, a month after the service’s US debut in August, The Register is reporting.

The company is assembling a range of offerings the music service will offer with a view to those launch windows. It is believed that Virgin Digital (VD) will offer both iTunes a la carte downloads and a Napster-style subscription package.

Music-derived mobile phone ringtones, music hardware and possible full-length videos are possible additions to the core music offering. That, of course, makes sense, because of the strong position of Virgin Mobile in U.S. as well as U.K. among younger audiences.

Virgin Megastores UK already offers digital downloads through a partnership with OD2. It is expected that Virgin will switch to its own partnership it announced in March with MusicNet.

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