Get Madonna's new album - on your cell phone

by amyjudd | March 18, 2008 at 12:26 pm

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The Queen of Pop, who refused to allow her music to be sold on iTunes, will become the first artist to allow her latest album Hard Candy to be made available for download on your cell phone, a week before it is due to be released in stores.

The material girl, who is also fighting rumours that her marriage to Guy
Ritchie is under threat, has announced plans to allow Vodafone customers in
Europe to download her new album to their phones a week before its launch on
April 28.

One song a day from Hard Candy - her 22nd album - will be made
available to customers for download in the week prior to release at 99p
each. The first single from the album, 4 Minutes, is already
available for 75p.

The decision follows a similar move by the R&B producer Timbaland in the US last month, and marks a sharp departure from Madonna's approach to
digital music services several years ago, when she was one of several high
profile acts to resist making their music available on iTunes for fear that
the site would bring about 'the death of the album'.