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Listen.com launched its subscription service

4 December 2001 1:29 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny

Listen.com was the first one to launch one of the much-hyped music subscription services. Listen.com launched its Rhapsody service yesterday. Rhapsody debuted without content from major record labels, although company is told to be in licensing negotiations with several major record labels.

Service debuted with two separate channels, Nexos Classical is Listen.com's classic music channel and costs $5.95/month and Sampler which offers music from various genres and costs also $5.95 a month. Sampler Plus package combines these two for $9.95 a month.

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