Japanese carrier KDDI has sold 10 million mobile music downloads through its new EZ Chaku-Uta Full service since last November. Other carriers are boasting downloads of 30 million or so pieces of media and KDDI said it is selling 2 million tracks per month. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the MIDI version of Drop it Like It’s Hot has been purchased by the majority Mrs. Koob’s eighth-grade class at St. Stephen’s Elementary in Kirby, Wisconsin and Sprint “thinks” that someone “may have signed up for streaming TV, but it could be a glitch in the billing system.”
Come on, people, can we get some good phones over here that make downloading, and, more importantly, listening to music, on our cellies a pleasure? Apple? Sony? A little more than 513MB and a wonky UI? Huh? If you can’t sell Bright Eyes tracks to a million emo kids with cool phones how are we ever going to put a man on the moon?
KDDI Sells 10 Million Songs On Mobiles [MocoNews]
