KDDI/AU announced that 5 Millions Chaku-Uta-Full songs have been downloaded until April 3, 2005.
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Note added: on June 15, 2005, KDDI reported 10 million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads…
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KDDI/AU reports 3 million Chaku-uta-full (full song) downloads since it’s start on November 19, 2004:
More in our “Mobile Music Japan” report.
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Turns out that music is a killer application on mobile – we are working on a number of projects in the mobile music field. We just completed our “Mobile Music Japan” report.
With an incredibly much smaller potential customer base KDDI/AU delivered more downloads of 20-30 second songs (chaku-uta) than Apple’s i-Tunes. Motorola reportedly announced a mobile phone incorporating i-Tunes at the recent CES show in Las Vegas. KDDI/AU‘s tremendous success with chaku-uta indicates that combining Motorola phones with i-Tunes will be very successfull indeed. AU reported 1 million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads within the first 48 days of service (chaku-uta-full started on November 19, 2004).
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It’s tempting to compare iTunes and Chaku-Uta statistics to get a feel for the meaning of the Motorola-iTunes deal. Here we go:
More about Japanese telecom sector and mobile in Japan: Eurotechnology Japan report on Japan’s telecom sector
More about Mobile Music in Japan: “Mobile-Music” report
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Global mobile phone ring tone market (source: Consect LLC, WSJ) in 2004:
W Europe: US$ 1.5 billion (37.5%)
Japan: US$ 1.0 billion (24.0%)
Korea: US$ 0.5 billion (12.5%)
US: US$ 0.3 billion (7.5%)
ROW: US$ 0.7 billion (17.5%)
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Total: US$ 4.0 billion (100%)
see: “Mobile Music in Japan” (report, pdf file)
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