Fact sheet

eMusic is a digital music club. With a more immersive, authentic music experience, special member benefits and better prices than mass market digital music retailers, it is the best way for music lovers and casual music fans to expand their music collection. It combines award-winning editorial, a state-of-the-art recommendations system and social media features to provide the most musical context for an enthusiastic community of music fans, record labels, and artists alike. Customers are encouraged to explore music with subscription pricing that rewards discovery at a better value than any legal competitor.  eMusic also sells downloadable audio books from all major audiobook publishers.

New York City

eMusic is owned by Dimensional Associates, the operating company that manages the private equity investments made by JDS Capital. Within Dimensional, they are represented by eMusic Chairman Danny Stein.

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More than 10 million tracks in every genre: rock, jazz, hip-hop, blues, classical, country, folk, electronic, world, reggae and more from over 60,000 of the world’s leading record labels. Best-selling labels include A&M, Atlantic, Columbia, Concord Music Group, Epic, Geffen, Island Def Jam, Koch, Legacy Recordings, Naxos, RCA, Reprise, Rhino, Sub Pop and Warner Bros.

More than 10,000 top-selling audiobooks in every category: fiction and non-fiction, biography/memoir, mystery, history, business, politics, science, language instruction, self-help and children, from publishers including Blackstone Books, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan,
Naxos, Penguin, Random House and Simon & Schuster.

eMusic is a membership-based download-to-own service, allowing members to purchase tracks at savings of 20% to 50% off Amazon and iTunes a la carte prices.  Primary membership plans are as follows:

 Music membership plans
Basic: $11.99 per month = $11.99 total credit
Plus: $15.99 per month + $1.00 bonus = $16.99 total credit
Premium: $20.99 per month + $2.00 bonus = $22.99 total credit

 Audiobook membership plans
Basic: $9.99 per month = 1 book
Plus: $19.99 per month = 2 books

Editorial - Compiled by an award-winning staff of more than 150 music experts in every genre, eMusic supplies members with musical context in the form of daily reviews, artist Q&As, essays on albums, genres and labels, and features like “eMusic Icon” and “Six Degrees.”
Recommendations – eMusic employs powerful technology that combines human analysis with computer algorithms to make personalized recommendations based on subscribers’ individual actions (searches, downloads, ratings, etc.), specific musical tastes and overall site usage.
“Best of Web” content – Artist and album pages display related content from YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia.
Facebook “Like” button - eMusic subscribers can post links to album and artist pages and eMusic editorial to their Facebook Profile, which then appear on their friends’ News Feeds, and vice versa.
The eMusic Toolbar – Offers members the free eMusic Daily Download and puts Internet search and quick search of eMusic's vast music catalogue at their fingertips.
Community – eMusic’s active member community thrives via on-site message boards, user reviews and “Neighbors,” “Friends” and “Playlists” features that allow members to share their music discoveries.

eMusic’s A+R Access + Rewards© program offers exclusive experiences, offers and discounts from select partners connected to the music world,
including special deals on audio equipment, free concert tickets and trips to music festivals.