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London to get music download kiosks

November 15, 2004

LONDON - The first kiosks to sell music downloads will be introduced in London next month, according to a news release. Inspired Broadcast Networks will open two music kiosks in Waterloo and King's Cross stations, and plan to have up to 20,000 others in high-street shops, service stations and pubs by the end of 2005.

Customers will be able to download a single onto a mobile phone or personal music player. The company launching the project said it hoped to initially offer two million songs. The move follows continuing poor sales for traditional, over-the-counter singles. In October the chart compilers said they recorded the worst ever sales for a song reaching number one - more than 23,000 - compared to sales of hundreds of thousands in the 1980s and '90s.