Just imagine that you could purchase a song everytime and everywhere you saw, streamed and listened to a song on the net. That is the goal here.
Record labels big and small are working toward the goal of turning every social network profile, blog and fan site into a digital music storefront. Their ultimate objective is to post a “buy” button next to each track. For instance, More than 9 million fans have posted Fall Out Boy’s “A Little Less ‘Sixteen Candles,’ a Little More ‘Touch Me’” to their respective sites.
We don’t know if social networks can translate promotion into sales, but who cares. Its about impressions..right?
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yea, just saw Reverbnation.com updated their widgets so that people can buy the track aswell as stream it without having to leave the site their on. I for one am not that quick to buy (I can atleast wait to go to itunes), but I guess this a step forward for impulse buying.
impulse buying is key for this to work. The world is full of impulse buyers. Its a human buying behavior worth profiting from to some.