Musicnotes.com near 80 percent market share
The Constable on September 9th, 2008
Interesting story on Madison, WI’s newspaper, The Capital Times, website today regarding market share of legal sheet music download service, Musicnotes.com. The main gist of the article is that they are at 80% market share, but what is potentially more interesting is the quote from their CEO discussing the concerns that some of the illegal sheet music sites and networks may start to pose as they continue to proliferate.
While we are proud of the loyal customer base we have built over the years, one of our biggest concerns moving forward is the proliferation of illegal sheet music Web sites and file sharing networks,” Musicnotes CEO Kathleen Marsh said in a statement. “There are several sites that give away complete arrangements of copyrighted music for free as downloadable PDFs or other image scans. Musicnotes continues to work with industry organizations, publishers and songwriters to address this growing problem.”
Also worth mentioning is that Musicnotes is also the same company that brought back popular guitar tab web site MXTabs.net as a free, legal service.
Digg Description:
Madison-based Musicnotes said Tuesday that it currently holds nearly 80 percent of the U.S. market for downloadable sheet music and is about 10 times the size of its nearest competitor, according to HitWise.
