Virgin To Close US & UK Download Stores October 19th

Hypebot reported that this would happen months ago, but the end is finally near. Virgin will shut its music
subscription and download services in the US and UK next month.

In the UK, Virgin Digital stopped selling tracks last week and is no longer accepting new customers. Only existing customers now use the service and the site will shut down completely on Oct. 19th. U.S. customers will face a similar fate but will get a credit to be used on Napster’s music download service. No figures have been released from Napster on conversion rates from Virgin or the similar deal that it made with AOL.