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MusicQubed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home - MusicQubed )〕 is a white label music application developer that provides a tethered download service aimed at casual music fans. MusicQubed supplies a mobile application that downloads up to 100 tracks that update daily and overnight. As of March 2014 over 1.5 million people have used the MusicQubed service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Blackhurst: Snobbery over 'wide-boy chancers'? It's time to embrace entrepreneurial spirit if we want to compete on world stage )〕 The company was founded in 2011 and has partnered with Vodafone, Samsung, Now! O2 and the Official Charts Company. One of the founders, Chris Gorman, spoke to Music Week in January 2014: "The £10 or $10 a month super fans and aficionados have been well catered for, leaving the market for mainstream music lovers largely underserved and under-monetised.".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='UK music streaming services must halve subscription price' - study )〕 When MusicQubed first launched in 2011, its first release was a tie-in with Now! That's What I Call Music,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spotlight: MusicQubed )〕 charging users £1 a week for unlimited access to the UK’s Top 40 singles. In July 2012, MusicQubed announced a deal with Samsung, where the UK's Official Top 40 application would be preloaded on Samsung mobile phones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MusicQubed bags Top 40 UK preload deal with Samsung )〕 In February 2013, MusicQubed launched (O2 Tracks ) in partnership with O2.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=O2 Launches O2 Tracks Bringin the Top 40 Direct to Mobile )〕 O2 Users could access the UK Official Top 40 as well as new releases for £1 a week if you are an O2 customer, otherwise it costs £4.99 per month after a two-week trial. Later in 2013, O2 announced the new Lady Gaga album 'ARTPOP' would appear on O2 Tracks six days before its official release date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lady Gaga ARTPOP album gets early UK debut on O2 Tracks )〕 Later the same year, MusicQubed announced the appointment of ex-Vodafone Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Chris Burke as their Chairman〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mobile Today - MusicQubed snares former Vodafone CTO as chairman )〕 In November 2013, MusicQubed partnered with Vodafone in New Zealand to launch (Vodafone Music ), where users could listen to 70 full tracks, including New Zealand's Official Top 40 for $1.50 per week〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vodafone Music App hits the Shelves )〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MusicQubed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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