Posted by Andy Rubin, Senior Vice President, Google Mobile
"Last may at Google i/o, we launched the Beta of Google music with a clear ambition: to help people to quickly access their music collections from any device. Music Beta enabled you to transfer your personal music collection (up to 20,000 songs) for free to the cloud so you can stream it anywhere, any time. Today service beta evolve into a broader platform: Google music. Google music is about to discover, purchase, share and enjoy digital music in new, innovative and personal way.
Google music will help you spend more time listening to your collection and less time managing it. We automatically synchronize entire music library – both purchase and Uploads — across all your devices so you don't have to worry about cables, file transfers or driving of storage space. We'll keep your playlists intact, even as playlist "Arctic" is always the playlist "Arctic" whether you're on your laptop, Tablet PC or phone. You can also choose specific artists, albums and playlists that you want to listen to when you're offline.
Purchase and share
We would also like to make it easy and convenient for you to increase your music collection. Today, we added a new music store in the Android market, fully integrated with Google music.
The store offers more than 13 million songs from artists at Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and the Agency for the global independent rights Merlin and over 1,000 prominent independent labels including merge records, Warp Records, Matador Records, XL Recordings, and Naxos. We have also partnered with the world's largest digital distributor of independent music including INgrooves, IODA, The Orchard and think Digital.
You can buy individual songs or entire albums directly from your computer or device is Android and they should be added directly to your Google music library, and available anywhere.
Good music makes you want to turn the volume up, but large music makes you want to scroll down the windows and blast it to everyone. We captured this sentiment by giving you the opportunity to share an entire play free a purchased song with your friends on Google +.
Exclusively at Google music
We celebrate the launch of a variety of music you won't find elsewhere, much of it free. There is something for everyone with a host of free songs to choose from:
* The Rolling Stones, offers an exclusive, never before released live concert album, Brussels affair (Live, 1973), including free single, "Dancing with Mr. D". This is the first of six in an unreleased concert series that will be made available only through Google music in the coming months.
* Coldplay fans will find some original music that isn't available elsewhere: a free, live recording of "Every Teardrop is a waterfall", a five-song live EP from their last concert in Madrid and a remix of "Paradise" by Tiësto.
* Busta Rhymess first single from his upcoming album, why quit now (feat. Chris Brown), is free.
* Shakira live EP from her last concert in Paris, and her only new studio, "Je L ' Aime à Mourir" both are offered free.
* Pearl Jam launches a live album from their 9-11-11 concert in Toronto, free to Google music users.
* Dave Matthews Band offers up free album from two live concerts, including new material from Live at Lakeside.
* Tiësto offers up a new mix, "what can we do?" (feat. Anastacia), exclusively to Google music users.
Artist hub
If you are on a label or do-it-yourself variety, are artists in the heart of Google music. With Google music artist hub, any artist that has the necessary permissions can distribute his or her own music on our platform, and use the interface the artist hub to build an artist page, upload original tracks, fix prices and sell content directly to fans – essentially becomes head of his own extensive music store. This applies to both new artists as established independent artists, such as Thurston Moore, showing a new single on Google music today.
Google music is now open in the United States at market.android.com, and over the next few days, we will be rolling out a music store, Android market on devices running Android 2.2 and above. You can also pick up the new music app from the Android market and start listening to your music on your mobile phone or Tablet PC today. And don't forget to turn your speakers up to 11.
