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Starbuck’s Hear Music Expanding

In some good news for adult music marketers Starbucks is rolling out more Hear Music coffeehouses which include digital download kiosks, custom CD burning stations and encourages new music discovery.  San Antonia opens today and South Beach, FL follow early next year following the Hearmusic_img_5 flagship outlet in Santa Monica, CA, which opened in March, 2004. The stores will increase the amount of available tracks within the kiosks to one million, up from 250,000 according to Digital Music News.

"The new Hear Music Coffeehouses truly transform the way consumers discover and acquire music, both physically, through our CD inventory, and digitally, through our media bars," said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment said in a press release. "We’re building upon the success of the Santa Monica Coffeehouse, by incorporating customer feedback to extend the experience even further by adding enhanced ambiance, more space and new technology." The store expansion follows a string of widely successful co-branded specialty CD’s involving artists like Alanis Morissette, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones and a Hear Music channel on satellite radio.

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