The key here is that the digital download market is now big enough to make digital-only music distribution a viable approach. Clearly that market is only going to get bigger, so I'd expect many other music labels to follow this approach (as they're already doing with their digital-only labels for new releases of smaller bands, an effort that was led by Warner's Cordless "elabel" and Universal's UMe)
以前只有一個頻道的時候,播的音樂類型會被侷限,當網路可以突破這個頻道限制,就可以推出很多不同音樂類型的電台了,那麼,他們也才有機會就著所謂主流與非主流,在曝光的角度上,都儘量平均些,未來更有可能變成一個強大的、更多電台的入口網站。
台灣的歌曲版權散落四方,缺少專門的仲介平台來彙整並釐清歌曲的版權,也因此線上音樂業者必須分頭去確認歌曲各部份的版權,並進行授權簽約,這些確認與洽談的動作皆需花不少時間與成本處理。反觀蘋果iTunes的成功,一方面是取得合法授權的順利,另一方面是因為iTunes在面對唱片業者的擇善堅持(當然也是實力作後盾)。