Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.

After experiencing some confusion surrounding exactly which unlimited music services are available in Canada — in part because we don’t live there — we decided to look for an authoritative resource that details which music services are available in the various regions of the world.

We think we found it at Pro-Music.org, a consortium involving a slew of music-related acronyms representing various stakeholders of the music industry (FIM, GERA-Europe, GIART, ICMP, IFPI, IMMF, Impala, and IMPA).

In addition to a list of what songs are charting where, Pro-Music includes a helpful map that can tell you which music services (streaming radio, unlimited subscriptions, ringtones, and download stores) are available in each country and region, using data from the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry).

As a demonstration of just how confusing this situation is, not even the IFPI (the “I” stands for “International”) purports to know precisely which of these services are available where.

“This is a list of legal online music services from around the world that offer music as a download, stream or ringtone,” reads Pro-Music’s disclaimer. “The list is compiled by IFPI based on information supplied by its national groups and is not and does not purport to be exhaustive. IFPI endeavours to keep the information on this website updated, but IFPI does not guarantee the accuracy of the information supplied.”

With that in mind, the IFPI’s list is as good a list as any we’ve seen. As of today, August 22, 2012, here’s what it contains. One way to read this is that Deezer, which is not available in the U.S., is available in plenty of other places — even in countries that lack access to iTunes:

North America

USA

7digital
AmazonMP3
AOL Music
Artist Direct
BearShare
eMusic
iMesh
iTunes
MySpace Music
MOG
MTV
Music Unlimited
Muve Music
Pandora
rara.com
Rdio
Rhapsody
Slacker
Spotify
Vevo
Yahoo! Music
YouTube
Zune

Canada

7digital
Archambault
AstralRadio
BBM Music
Bell Mobility
Blackberry Music Store
CBC Music
Classical Archives
Deezer
eMusic
Galaxie Mobile
HMV Digital Canada
iTunes Canada
Mediazoic
Motime
Music Unlimited
Puretracks
rara.com
Rdio
Slacker
TELUS
urMusic
VEVO
YouTube
Zik
Zune

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Pro-Music's Global Guide To Music Services

North America

USA

Canada

Latin America

Anguilla

Antigua & Barbuda

Argentina

Aruba

Bahamas

Barbados

Belize

Bermuda

Bolivia

Brazil

Cayman Islands

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

El Salvador

Grenada

Guatemala

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Jamaica

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Puerto Rico

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Suriname

Trinidad and Tobago

Uruguay

Venezuela

Europe, Africa & Russia

Albania

Andorra

Armenia

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Egypt

Estonia

Faroe Islands

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Gibraltar

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

Kazakhstan

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Malta

Mauritius