My heart goes boom as I’m starting to write this blog’s first post. We wish our service will be your I-can’t-live-without my “music happiness center” referring and all. Actually, there’s several months of work going real so this is quite an exciting moment.

But first, let me introduce with a few figures:

• online music world income have doubled since 2006 reaching 2 billions dollars,
• That same year, this activity has grown by 10%,
• 795 million songs have been downloaded worldwide, 90% more than in 2005,
• The number of available digital tracks has doubled to reach 4 millions,
• 40 countries now accounts for 498 digital music retailers,
• 120 millions music players have been sold in 2006,

Reading these figures, one would think: everything’s fine then? Music industry’s crisis is behind us and the future’s bright, shinny and all.

Well not quite. Even though mp3 player owners are more willing to buy music from legal offers, digital revenues stay low and won’t compensate loss from CD sales for now. On a broader level, lawsuits by producer associations (eg RIAA in the USA) have opened new perspectives for the public: there’s no such thing as free music. Music generates business, jobs, and above all remunerates creation: the work of the artist wishing to earn his or her living from his or her art.

The good thing is new business models and new online services regularly become available. Recent acquisition of last FM by CBS for a mere 280 millions $ is a dream for any entrepreneur in this business. As in music, success stories are real on the Internet but there’s a long way down starting up this kind of activity.

As for now, with few means but a full load of enthusiasm and passion, our team has decided to offer you the musical service you always dreamed of, allowing you to access all YOUR music wherever and whenever you want and to discover new music with recommendations based on your personal tastes.

This blog is the right place to start if you’d like to stay tuned with the development of this service and I can only suggest that leave us with your email address on www.musana.com so that we can soon invite you to our private beta.

Jérôme

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