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Could I be a model in Korea or Japan?

Is there any local music streaming service focuses on Japan local market (and any local South Korea one)? Like Rdio/Pandora for America and Spotify for EU (well, it just entered America). If not, are Japanese consumers still favor downloading model like iTunes?

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    According to (http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2008/11/Japanese_iTunes_Usage) Japan has the highest iTunes penetration in the world. As far as I know, there isn't an insanely popular music streaming website. This is partly due to the fact that there are dozens of stores where people can "rent" CDs. [Of course, when they rent the CDs, they copy the files onto their computers/iTunes library]. CDs are really expensive in Japan, so renting them is a way to get access to new music without paying a lot. I'm not sure if this has changed recently.

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I wrote a post about RecoChoku Best, a Japanese mobile music streaming service that launched in March of this year. It looks promising. http://www.startup-dating.com/2013/06/recochoku-music

Yukari Mitsuhashi

In South Korea, I don't believe there is a stream-only service but dominant music providers such as Melon (http://www.melon.com), Naver Music (http://music.naver.com), and Dosirak (http://www.dosirak.com) all provide stream-only subscriptions. Downloading model is still mainly popular due to the psychological factor of "owning" the music and being able to listen to them using portable players compared to temporarily renting them using PCs or smartphones.

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