You can write your own variations of these songs online and e-mail them around the world.
Songs on the iTunes online store, which has sold more than 10 millions songs at 99 cents each since the April 2003 launch, are already subject to stiff royalty payments.
Blige through the iTunes music store or other big online sellers, the songs come with an invisible piracy shield called Digital Rights Management - DRM.
Unless things change, some in the industry predict that publishers will suffer a similar fate to that of music companies, whose fortunes faded when Apple turned the industry upside down by selling individual songs cheaply online.
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Under the name MC Yogi, Mr. Giacomini began writing, recording and selling online yoga-centric rap songs, such as "Be the Change, " a hip-hop telling of the story of Mahatma Gandhi.
He added the songs would be released online and hinted the recordings could be part of "a long-term plan" to release a new studio album.
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The social media response was so great that later that year it debuted "March Music Madness, " in which people go online to submit their favorite workout songs for a bracket that mimics the NCAA's "March Madness" national basketball championship bracket.
It also lured customers by giving them the ability to customise their playlists, and by pricing songs bought from its iTunes online store at a not-too-steep 99 cents apiece.
And while it's hard to imagine that many others could get people to pay for their scribblings, it was once unthinkable that millions would buy individual songs on iTunes or pay for online access to a newspaper.
They'll be about the cost of buying the songs that make up a whole album online.
By September, Chvrches' first two songs had earned them hundreds of eager converts online.
Nokia Music allows consumers to enjoy the songs of their favorite artists without disruption, both online and offline so consumers can listen to their favorite playlists anytime, anywhere.
Initially available to institutions and researchers, a new version called the Global Jukebox Song Tree will be available online in the fall with a cache of 5, 000 songs.
The service is unlikely to be tied to an online music store like Amazon MP3, which gives users the option of adding new songs to their music locker at the time they buy them.
In August Nokia unleashed a new online brand called Ovi, Finnish for "door, " through which it will sell songs, games and maps over the air or a PC, often bypassing the wireless carriers.
The iTunes Store is the world's most popular online music, app, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 26 million songs, over 700, 000 apps, over 190, 000 TV episodes and over 45, 000 films.
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But black men don't even bother to romance women in love songs anymore, says Kimberly Hines, editor-in-chief of SoulBounce, an online progressive urban music site.
But with Spotify beginning to limit the number of songs users with free accounts can play, it seems possible there could be space for a new online music player serving up similar content for free.
And iPod's counterpart, the online iTunes Music Store, dominates the business of legal downloads with a 70% share, having sold 70 million songs in 2003, its first year, at 99 cents a pop.
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