Unlike Spotify, Rdio and most streaming music providers who attract paying customers with extensive and almost unlimited free services, Rhapsody offers only a 30 day free trial. Today, Rhapsody expanded that promotion marginally with a partnership that gives Best Buy customers a free 1 month Premier membership with the purchase of a CD.
Best Buy customers will receive a one-month free membership to Rhapsody Premier every time they p
urchase a qualifying CD in-store or online.
Studies have shown an increasing correlation between music discovery through a streaming music
service and music purchase. According to a recent Nielsen
Music 360 report, 29% of consumers are likely to purchase new music
after hearing it through a streaming service.
Last the company and it's Napster brand, announced a deal with major global telecommunications provider Telefonica that expands their reach into Latin America and Europe; and reasserts Rhapsody's place in the upper tier of digital music competitors.
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