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# Rhapsody Partners with Best Buy For Free Premier Membership
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/rhapsody-partners-with-best-buy-for-free-premier-membership/
- Published: 2013-10-22T09:20:29.000Z
- Updated: 2013-10-22T09:20:29.000Z
- Description: 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. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/10/rhapsody-partners-with-best-buy-for-fr
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, Streaming, Vinyl, Cassettes & Retail, Best Buy, Compact disc, Customer, Nielsen Music 360, Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, Streaming media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43

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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

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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](https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/10/rhapsody-expands-to-latin-america-europe-with-major-telfonica-deal-.html) 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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