eMusic waits for a surge

eMusic is not exactly growing, having had the same number of users subscribing for the last four years.

On the bright side, the company is now making a fifth more from each of those members. Partly this is down to having major labels fully on board, although surely they'd have been hoping that they'd have tempted new sign-ups rather than just persuading their existing user base to spend more.

The company is now "hoping" it's cloud service will be in place by Christmas, although they've been promising this since last summer. Christmas seems too late, given that Amazon, Google and Apple are already taking names and credit card details.