Today is my first opportunity to blog in my role as senior director of media services at TalkTalk, and what better way to kick things off than to talk about one of my great passions, and I’m sure one of yours too – music. I caught the bug back in my teenage years, my first ever live gig was The Scorpions and the first LP I bought was Devo. Thankfully my musical taste has evolved and I now have a collection of over 2000 CDs and 17,448 tracks on my iPod!
So I am really pleased to be launching our great new music download service ‘Music for Life‘ for all users of our media portal Tiscali.co.uk with a catalogue of over 6.5 million MP3s.
We’ve teamed up with eMusic, the digital music retailer, to offer customers their favourite tracks at the touch of a button. What’s more, users will receive 50 free tracks when they sign up for a 14-day free trial, with the standard cost per track a mere 42p or less.
I have an extremely varied taste in music, some of the recent live acts I have seen include The King Blues, Bellowhead and in November Ryuichi Sakamoto! So I for one am excited about the range of music available through Music for Life which features a whole array of artists that cater for just about anyone’s musical tastes, with songs from Florence and the Machine, Johnny Cash, Mozart, Nat King Cole and White Stripes, to name but a few. So you’re bound to find all your favourites there and make some new discoveries too.
The downloaded tracks are compatible with all portable music players and can be burned to an unlimited number of CDs.
The Music for Life service is part of our continuing efforts to enhance our Tiscali.co.uk portal and offer the best services to the 6 million people who use it each month. The portal is a fantastic resource and my team and I are looking at a number of other ways to improve it over the coming months, so I’ll update you via this blog when we have more to say.
Recently we’ve been very clear that the music industry’s current woes are not down to a lack of demand from the public, more to a failure by the industry to supply music in formats people want. An innovative subscription and download model like Music for Life is, we believe, a far better way to keep people engaged with legal digital music than threatening to disconnect them without any proof of wrongdoing.
So please have a look at Music for Life and check out content including exclusive live performances, music videos, biographies and news. You can take a look here.
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