Music Ally

We’ve been watching People’s Music Store closely since its launch earlier this year: it lets music fans set up their own digital music stores, stocked from a central catalogue maintained by the company. Until now, though, those tracks have only been from independent labels.

That’s now changed, via a deal with Universal Music Group to add more than 300,000 of its tracks to the People’s Music Store catalogue. UMG is thus the first major label to sign up for the service, bringing artists including Amy Winehouse, Duffy, Morrissey, U2, Guns’n'Roses, Kanye West and Jay-Z to the service, which has so far seen more than 1,000 people launch their own stores. 

It’s not just music fans either: People’s Music Store says labels like Ninja Tune, Rough Trade and Lex are using the service, as well as artists like Nightmares on Wax.

“We are excited to have the Universal Music catalogue on People’s Music Store because it shows that forward-thinking labels are willing to try new ways of connecting artists with fans,” says founder Ged Day. “This addition doubles our catalogue to 600,000 tracks and means that our storekeepers have even more options to choose from when stocking their stores.”

Tags: people's music store, UMG

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